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Far-fetched plot
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 02/12/2016
» Three decades ago a Baltimore, Maryland, insurance man Tom Clancy entered the literary world with The Hunt For Red October. Acclaimed critically and popularly, he never looked back. Never in the military, his interest and research in the weapons of war elevated him to the rank of military analyst.
First century AD
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 04/11/2016
» The first century AD automatically brings to mind Jesus of Nazareth. The New Testament, thought to have been penned up to a century and a half later, told of his extraordinary birth, miracles and ascension to heaven. Two millennia later, circa a billion people believe it.
Courtroom thrills
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 25/01/2016
» When I was a youngster, my father gave me a choice of careers: "Be a doctor or a lawyer. They help people and make good money, not necessarily in that order." He was stunned and disappointed when I replied that neither interested me. I wanted to teach history.
Rather clever solutions
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 22/06/2015
» While the jewelled isles don't lack for crimes, a plethora of police stories is set in England. Can you name a police inspector, chief inspector, superintendent from Wales or Ireland? Scotland has Ian Rankin's Police Detective Inspector John Rebus.
An author’s lament
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 18/08/2014
» As a critic, I've been taken to task more than a few times by authors whose books I gave a thumbs down. They often query why, when writing a review, I overlook the time and effort that it takes to get the manuscripts published? It takes as long and is at least as hard as the writing, they say and they are right. My defence is that the proof of the pudding is in the eating, not the preparation.
Minority of one
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 28/04/2014
» I don’t know if it is so in real life, but literary sleuths — male and female — abound. Cops and private eyes, doctors and lawyers, government, military, old biddies, archaeologists. Thriller writers base their stories on actual and imaginary crimes. In either case, readers want them to be interesting.
Thanks, Nessie
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 03/02/2014
» Atlantis is but only one of the objectives of archaeological searches. There are also Alexander the Great's final resting place, the Hebrew Ark of the Covenant, Camelot, Captain Kidd's buried treasure, the treasure of the Templars, the missing link, the Abominable Snowman and Big Foot. Not least, the Loch Ness Monster.
Paedophiles and demons
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 26/08/2013
» One of the top UK authors, Stephen Leather has made paedophilia the major theme of Night Shade. His literary creation, Met detective turned private eye Jack Nightingale, is hired by the brother of a man who topped himself to prove he had everything to live for.
An unlawful outrage
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 11/02/2013
» Of all the literary and cinema genres, the most thrilling is escape. Escape from prison, escape from predators, escape from burning buildings, escape from sinking ships, escape from aliens, escape from prehistoric creatures, escape from eruptions, escape from hurricanes.
Smoke jumpers
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 12/11/2012
» I'd thought that James Patterson, on his own and with co-authors, penned the most novels until I came across Nora Roberts. Under her own name and also the pseudonym JD Robb she has ground out 190 works of fiction to date without a co-author. To her credit, talent-wise she gives Patterson a run for his money.