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One of the joys of writing novels is the creation of characters who seem to come to life--people who, just like actual human beings, change and evolve over time and with experience. This, of course, is the classic character arc of literature. Even so, to my mind, action-adventure protagonists should stay relatively stable--James Bond, for example, is always James Bond. Still, over the course of th Read more of this blog post »

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The Tomb of Hercules (Nina Wilde & Eddie Chase, #2)

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“When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.”
― Richard Stark, Firebreak

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