Neither Five Nor Three--Helen MacInnes
Okay, some vintage fiction is really good. Consider this 1951 thriller which is concerned with the infiltration of Communists into the publishing industry. It's all turning to propaganda, and it's up to us as thinking, patriotic Americans to stop it!
Fast forward 55 years, and change the publishing industry to the blogosphere and add more sex, and we've got a blockbuster, baby!
From the back cover: Nothing in Rona Metford's chic, sophisticated world of publishers, writers and artists warned her of the sinister web of terror and treason that was slowly winding itself around her. But the insidious evil lurking just beneath the surface of her love affair with an ambitious young journalist could not stay hidden forever. Strange events and stranger friends suddenly triggered off an explosion that plunged Rona into the very center of a violent and dangerous conspiracy.
The Bookwoman's Last Fling--John Dunning
The Cliff Janeway series was really good when it started out as a cop turned antiquarian bookseller crime solver. The first two books--great. But since the third, the plots have become more outrageous and less about bookers and scroungers and that life. This one takes place mostly in the racing world, as Janeway is hired to figure out who made off with an odd assortment of books from the collection of a dead woman. The kicker? He's investigating it about 20 years the crime occurred. Still, it's a snore.
No comments:
Post a Comment