I've been reading that interview in Espionage magazine again,
and, as I said, it's very interesting. Atlee seems to have
gotten along fine with his brother, David Atlee Phillips, who
was in the CIA. They had no personal contact and did not
correspond for years because Atlee was afraid his brother
would get accused of giving him information for the books.
Atlee didn't want his brother to get in trouble, or at least
that's they way he tells it. He also tells about his work
with John Wayne of BIG JIM MCLAIN and with Robert Mitchum on
THUNDER ROAD (a classic!). He actually visited the places he
wrote about, and says that the Gold Medal editors didn't even
know where he was most of the time. He used the books to
finance his travels. If you can get a copy of the interview,
by all means read it.
Bill Crider
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