----- Original Message ----- From: "Terrill Lankford" <
lankford2000@earthlink.net>
> Good catch, Al. But could it be because he [Lee
Child] is aggressively
packaged and
> promoted more like a U.S. author than a British one?
His character is
American,
> his series takes place here and I think he himself
lives in New York. Lee
may
> be an import, but I don't think his books
are.
Sort of carrying on the James Hadley Chase tradition but
taking it a bit more seriously (Chase set most of his books
in the US despite having visited it only twice, briefly). In
a cunning marketing ploy in the '50s, American Hank Janson,
(who I still haven't read), starred in his own books as Crime
Reporter on the Chicago Chronicle. He was in fact Englishman
Stephen Frances.
Al
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