APRIL FOOL
“APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.”
Taken from:
The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
The Baptists sent me a flyer, and that sent me to the Bible…
“9:16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.”
From The King James Version of the Bible
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A Safe House (A Stone Barrington Novel Book 61)
A Safe House
I’m reminded of a scene, from my own life, years ago. More than two decades past? In the hotel restaurant of note, in old Ft. Davis, TX, under a sign that said, I think, “Gentlemen will remove hats in the dining room,” a large lad was seated, pressed white shirt, and to impress his date, also made up, the guy had on a large, new-looking cowboy hat, cf., Taurus.
There’s a level of escapism that I turn to in a typical novel like this, but with an opening scenario that includes a feral Texas Republican senator? Too soon?
“Do you know who I am?”
(gate agent calls the cops)
With the ongoing SCOTUS discussion, as much as I would like to suggest no senator from Texas would be that mean, vile, and rapacious? Yeah, current events are eerily similar to fiction.
Thoroughly enjoyable, and even fun, to see a ugly — shockingly realistic — fiction about politics. Too bad fiction has such unlikely endings where the good guys always win, and the morally aggrieved triumph.
A Safe House
A Safe House (A Stone Barrington Novel Book 61)
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The Eiger Sanction
Posted as satire of the then-current crop of spy thrillers, the library kept recommending the novel.
Along a similar vein, I’m rather pleased to see Slough Horses as movie, coming soon to Apple TV.
Loved that series, Slough House, and I think it should translate well.
“Nevertheless, he intended to give it a handsome review in obedience to his theory that the surest way to maintain position at the top of the field was to advance and support men of clearly inferior capacities.” Page 38.
Surely satire.
Written with wit and verve. Dated. Mid, or even early 1970s. With that in mind? Really looking forward to the new Slough House series. Movie. Apple TV thing. The Eiger Sanction was fun, in a cold-war, spy-thriller that was intended as satire.
The Eiger Sanction