> Today I stopped at a used bookstore and saw several
of Izzi's
> novels... blast from the past. I had not thought
about Izzi for so
> long that it took me a couple of seconds to place
him. Has anyone read
> him or reread him recently? I used to like him, but
it was years ago.
> Despite the fact that he died, he may qualify for
the "disappeared"
> because his work is so out of sight.
>
I haven't read him lately but still have 9 of his books in my
library. his first, THE EIGHTH VICTIM is awful, he even
admitted that himself. his best IMO is THE PRIME ROLL. he had
a prose style obviously influenced by Elmore Leonard, and his
storytelling technique showed a propensity to set up
character conflagurations, and then describe them over and
over from various points of view, Rashomon style
he was a nice guy in person. and his death seemed
orchestrated. I suspect by himself, to perhaps gain him the
immortality he wasn't achieving in life
tragically, he fell a bit short there as well
another author worth mentioning in this thread is Marcel
Montecino, who made as big a quantum leap from THE CROSS
KILLER to his next book BIG TIME as Kent Harrington did from
DARK RIDE to DIA DE LOS MUERTOS. in both cases, the first
books were enjoyable if somewhat derivative. the second ones
were mind blowers
like Izzi, Montecino met a premature end, the details of
which now escape me
John Lau
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