> I'm about halfway through Douglas Winter's Run. As
good or better
> hardboiled style than any of Elmore Leonard's, and
that's saying a lot
> coming from me.
>
> Actually, I'm jealous, his style is so singularly
good. Also, I see at
> Amazon it's about to come out in
paperback.
What a great book. I put it on the Plots With Guns Best of
2000 list because I really believe it to be one of the first
"21st Century" crime novels--not just datewise, more in what
it's doing and how it works. It latches on to the fast pace
of cable TV news and has a "reality style" voice to it that's
all the rage. For those reasons, it could've have been a
failure and a cheap gimmick, but it works great, I suppose
because the writer really got us to care about the
characters. (Which is also why Survivor is more interesting
than rip-offs like The Mole)
I also read an interview with Winter in which he said he
wrote several chapters at once, flipping back and forth
between them in different windows as a new idea hit him. A
real techno/cut-and-paste way to work.
Neil Smith
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