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I think Dirty White Boys is great and The Day Before Midnight is his best. An absolute nail biter. And the insane heroics just to buy time...
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I would love to see both of those turned in to movies, but I know there is no way Hollywood could do them justice these days. I could see the Coens doing good work with them, especially considering DWB could have a similar feel to No Country. And Day Before would be easy to do as a period piece since it’s mostly a small town and a hill/tunnels. In his recent podcast with Jack Carr, he discussed the fact that he had tried writing a screenplay for Day Before, but it went nowhere.
Time to Hunt did an amazing job telling the story of Swagger’s pivotal last tour in Vietnam, and Fenn’s story. I really appreciated it.
Soft Target was junk, and I haven’t had much use for a few of the newer books, sadly. One thing I noticed is that Hunter seems to latch on to a phrase and reuse to over and over throughout a book.
I think G-Man was a really good historical fiction book. I can see disliking making Charles Swagger’s character homosexual, but it’s nothing new considering it was a big plot point in Hot Springs. It is also a good look at how it would have twisted him psychologically from a warm, good man to the abusive bully that Earl remembered.
That said, I really want to read Targeted, and whatever the previous Swagger book is to that.