marianne.macdonald@lineone.net wrote:
> I can imagine why an American nasty might wish to
avoid
> the consequences of his actions by incriminating
members of the CIA, an
> organisation which is not without its bad apples.
(Why, Mulder and
> Scully told me so, of course.) Can anybody suggest a
good contemporary
> hb which pits a PI against the CIA? Or is that
realistically
> inconceivable?
> The roles that PIs play relative to the CIA get
attention in Ellroy's
> "American Tabloid". "Traffic" (which I too enjoyed)
is tame by comparison.
> Maybe that's essential, as "Traffic" seems designed
to influence public
> opinion. Ellroy had some thoughts on the merits of
true-crime vs. fiction in
> a short obit for Milo Spiriglio in Saturday's New
York Times Magazine, plus
> a nice one-sentence summation of detective fiction
as "often the story of a
> schlub in over his head."
> Kerry
>
>
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