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Down Mexico way
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 17/01/2020
» Brit turned American Lee Child is perhaps the most respected author in the crime-thriller genre. His 6-5, 250-pound literary creation Jack Reacher is the most popular of heroes. No small part of the reason is that he's played on the screen by -- rather shorter -- star Tom Cruise. On his own, the behemoth is likeable.
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What if?
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 25/07/2019
» A cine buff -- contemporary, silent, foreign -- since my childhood in the Big Apple, still with a good but not photographic memory, I recall a French movie about a wealthy widow who decided to satisfy her curiosity by looking up her old boyfriends. She wondered what would her life have been like had she married one of them.
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Ace hitchhiker
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 02/03/2018
» British expatriate Lee Child has become perhaps the most respected thriller novelist in the US. His blurbs for colleagues' books send sales soaring. Jack Reacher, his literary creation, is a household name. Tom Cruise has played him in two successful movies.
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Be prepared
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 09/06/2017
» A reporter outside my homeland for more than a half-century, I never had the gall to call myself a foreign correspondent, lacking the qualifications of working for an American publication -- my byline in India, Japan and Thailand notwithstanding -- even though Time magazine gave me an honourable mention.
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The Chinese spy
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 10/02/2017
» If the majority of cloak and dagger scriveners are to be believed, look no further than the CIA for enemy spies (or MI6 as the case may be). In their espionage thrillers, both top secret intelligence agencies are infested with foreign moles and domestic traitors, often in high positions.
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Sherlock Holmes is back
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 02/09/2016
» Yank Bonnie MacBird who pens and edits Hollywood films and gives courses at UCLA in creative writing, is obsessed by Sherlock Holmes. She has not only read and re-read the books numerous times, but researched their author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Imitating his style, it was only a matter of time before she tried her hand at it.
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A lawyer's dream
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 27/07/2015
» The person many historians and authors of historical fiction find most fascinating to write about is England's 16th-century monarch Henry VIII. His hope for a male heir led him to have six wives, execute two of them and change the religion of the country.
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Fateful decisions
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 14/10/2013
» Whether history shapes men or men shape history is a tricky question, as both are true at different times _ often at the same time. Be that as it may, beyond doubt two men shaped the 20th century. Both were tyrants (who was "worse" is still being argued).
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A plausible solution
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 30/07/2012
» While what the vast majority of people know about Egypt are its pyramids and mummies, there are Egyptologists _ not all scholars _ who find it, particularly its ancient history, fascinating. Indeed, what is called the ancient world.
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