Two other titles were published under the Kavanagh name, I've
read both. One is called "The Triumph Of Evil", which is
nearly as good as the "SMAD" and the last was "Not Comin'
Home To You," which is based on the Charles Starkweather
murder spree. Block is a master storyteller.
Jesse
--- Seth Harwood <
sethharw@sethharwood.com> wrote:
> That's now the third strong recommendation for
this
> book I've seen/
> read/heard in the past two weeks.
> Good news is I've ordered it and plan to read it
as
> soon as it comes.
>
> Seth
> On Sep 24, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Ed Lynskey
wrote:
>
> > Lawrence Block wrote this military noir early
in
> his writing
> > career about Paul Kavanagh, an ex-Green Beret
who
> retires from
> > the trade.
> >
> > What's interesting is that Paul falls in love
with
> his solitary,
> > Crusoe-like life on a deserted Florida
Keys
> island. George
> > Dattner hunts up Paul, and they plot to steal
a
> shipment of
> > nuclear weapons from the military in the
Dakotas.
> >
> > Paul tells their caper in a
low-keyed,
> conversational manner. He
> > gets so far in, you're left wondering if
he'll
> ever get back to
> > his island paradise a million dollars
richer.
> >
> > This novel goes, and is one of the
better
> > retired-from-the-spy-trade crime books I've
read.
> >
> >
>
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