I just read _The Death Bird Contract_, the first Joe Gall
novel I've read in several years, and while it had a fairly
coherent plot from beginning to end
(a rarity in the Joe Galls I've read) I found it a pretty
unpleasant experience. This is the one where Gall voluntarily
becomes a heroin addict in order to carry out a contract. He
also comes across as very bitter and unlikable. None of which
makes this a bad book, of course. In fact, I thought it was
very well written. It certainly won't keep from reading other
books in the series. But it might make me wait a while before
I pick up another one.
Best, James
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3:34 AM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Philip Atlee again
> 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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