Two more or less recent readings that I would like to
recommend: the first is Blue Death, a Dan Fortune novel by
Michael Collins -- one of the several Collinses I still
hadn't read. The overall impression of this novel is very
strong: an accurate portrait of people deformed in various
degrees by a corporation. There is plenty of incident and
suspense, but at heart it is a psychological novel with a
social theme. Its character development did remind me of Ross
Macdonald.
The second is Blood Solstice, by James Howard Kunstler, who
would later turn out brilliant nonfiction books on the decay
of the American landscape, such as The Geography of Nowhere
and the very recent The Long Emergency. Blood Solstice tells
the story of a weird religious cult and the newspaper
reporter who follows their tracks. There is something very
noir in the telling of this story. Long out of print, I
think, but worth finding. I found it at a library sale,
"withdrawn", alas.
Best,
MrT
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