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Posted by WDonway 11 years, 5 months ago to Books
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Okay, here is the next novel that needs some volunteer reviewers. And then, my friends, some much put-upon, but profoundly appreciated, that will be it, for awhile. So, if you seek the distinction of having helped to launch a new Walter Donway novel, and as yet have not done so, here is your chance. This is a straight thriller, in more than one sense of "straight." There is sex, of course, but within normal bounds, so those who opened the door of one of my earlier novels, blushed deep red, and silently closed it, may walk into this room with equanimity, sit down, and enjoy a glass of chardonnay and a story about the "soft, safe assassins of the classroom" in cahoots with the Weathermen and Black Liberation Army in the much-lamented days of "The Cashing In: The Student Rebellion." Sign up here.
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  • Posted by 11 years, 5 months ago
    I have not seen the Robert Redford film, "The Company You Keep," but I have read about its exculpation and glorification of the Weather Underground, including the character who is supposed to be Kathy Boudin and the character supposed to be Bill Ayers. It will Bill Ayers who said, in The New York Times, that he regretted none of his participation on the bombings (for which he never was punished). He said that on the morning of 9/11, just before certain other events unfolded. Ayers and Boudin have been long-time friends of Barrack and Michelle Obama. Here is one interesting comment on the politics of the film: http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/04/07/...
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  • Posted by 11 years, 5 months ago
    Thanks, Kaila! And thanks to Dale, too. Just this morning I was reading the first chapters of some highly recommended thrillers and feeling: well written, well research, nice pace, good dialogue--but every scene seemed familiar from past books. It seems incredible, but when I wrote "The Way the Wind Blows," I had read only the James Bond books and Mickey Spillane. That was it. Not sure, but I MIGHT have read "The Jackal"--about my favorite of all time. Oh, yes, and some of Agatha Christie, from which I think I unconsciously derived some scene types. I was very intimately familiar with Boston and, in Human Events, I had been reading about the information circulating about bombs and weapons and revolution. And, of course, I had Ayn Rand's inspiration from "The Cashing In: The Student Rebellion."
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 5 months ago
    My husband just finished it. He highly recommends. He gets so tired of only having some Delta Force military, covert op thriller to choose from. He had trouble putting it down, I know because I watched him reading.
    I have just started it. It's fascinating thinking about you writing this thriller right when these events were happening. I think the timing is good, considering the release recently of a movie about the Weather Underground with Redford and Sarandon.
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