Finished Barry Eisler's Killing Rain a couple days ago. It
wasn't bad. The credits in the back show that Eisler is
working hard to make it real. I'm home for a couple more
hours and then up to the airport and out to DC for a week. I
checked out the bookshelf for something appealing and found
Earl Thompson's The Devil To Pay and Gores's Contract Null
and Void. I'll take them with me. I already started
Thompson's. First page and I'm already sold on it. Solid
prose. Bluesy, sad, and bittersweet. Probably a lot of
fucking in it, too, but that's just Thompson. Thompson seems
to have a great love for his characters, even as he runs them
through hell. I approach this novel with some sadness. It's
the last novel of Thompson's that I haven't read. I've
already stated here many times that I think his A Garden of
Sand ranks up there as one of my favorite all-time novels,
right up there with Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Heller's
Catch-22, and McCarthy's Blood Meridian.
I was also happy to find two more Willeford novels that I
didn't know I had. Oh, well. Better get packing.
miker
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