Sean, Roger lives there, does TV and film production there.--Dave
--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Sean Shapiro <ssshapir@...> wrote:
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> I've stuck a copy of the book on order. Don't know when I'll actually get around to reading it. But as a South African (raised in Joburg, born in Belgium but now living in London) I'm curious to see how accurately the writer potrtrays the country.
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> South Africa has some major problems with crime. Murder especially. I'm surprised there aren't more novels of this sort out there.
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> What relationship -- if any -- does the writer have to SA? Not that it really matters. Research and imagination are all that matter ... a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool from the top of a hill.
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> From: davezeltserman <davezelt@...>
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> Sent: Monday, March 9, 2009 9:31:32 PM
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Mixed Blood by Roger Smith
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> I just finished this one, and it's excellent. The setup, an American forced to participate in a bank robbery in Milwaukee which left one policeman dead and his accomplices either dead or captured, has fled with the money and his family to Capetown, South Africa. When a couple of drugged out gangsters break into his new home for rape and other nastiness, it triggers a sequence of very violent events.. This is a very dark, violent book where the violence is played straight and not for laughs, and plays almost like a Parker book if Parker ever ended up in Capetown, and found himself a family man and his 4-year old son kidnapped. This book's a first novel, but doesn't read like one. Not one moment of slack from beginning to end. If you like Richard Stark/Parker, I think you'd like this, although it's quite a bit darker and more violent than Parker. As a caveat, I know Roger, but while it had influenced me to try his book, it has no influence at all in my
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