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The Cold War: Phase 2
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 18/04/2016
» The implosion of the Soviet empire was greeted with a sigh of relief in democracies by all but the cloak-and-dagger novelists. Who would replace the Soviet Union as the common enemy? To be sure, terrorists are sinister, but they lack the cohesiveness that was a mark of the KGB.
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The cook did it
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 12/10/2015
» Men perform more major crimes than women, but women are catching up. Calling females the weaker sex is an outmoded term. In novels and films, the butler didn't do it, but the cook did. Motives are much the same: lust, greed revenge, ambition or self-defence.
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Right vs Justice
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 09/02/2015
» It would be only a slight exaggeration to say that Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks of the North Yorkshire Police is as well known in the UK in this day and age as London private detective Sherlock Holmes was a century ago. Less so in the US with its plethora of shamuses. But crime thriller fans the world over rate him as one of the best.
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Mystical religion
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 04/10/2019
» I am saying straight away that I believe in God. How else can the cosmos be there? But I'm not religious. In my time I've been to churches, temples, mosques and holy places out of curiosity, not seeking a spiritual experience. In each I did the expected to the extent possible: sat, bowed, knelt, mumbled prayers, faked singing spirituals, et al. It was copying, not mocking.
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Double-whammy master
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 22/02/2018
» By using fire for cooking, Homo sapiens took a step higher on the food chain. It made eating mammoths easier on the digestion. The press was another step. Print replaced cave drawings, clay pressings, stone carvings, papyrus. Books were cloth- or leather-bound.
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One of a kind
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 03/11/2017
» In the US, and many other lands, justice is in the hands of the police and the courts. The citizenry must abide by their decision. But this overlooks the fact that vengeance is a human instinct.
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Crime thriller back
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 13/06/2016
» Some books have peculiar histories. Peter Robinson migrated from England. In Canada he wrote No Cure For Love, published in 1995. It didn't come out in the UK and US until 2016.
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The assassin as hero
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 05/01/2015
» Every country needs heroes, men, women and teachers to hold up and be proud of, for children to emulate, to celebrate their feats. Extolled in books and movies, if not so heroic in real life, legends are built around them. If they don't exist, create them.
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Don’t pass it by
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 27/10/2014
» Perhaps my chief complaint about authors is that all too many have nothing worthwhile to say. They tell a more or less interesting story, which we forget soon after turning the last page. There are writers, however, whose works leave us with food for thought.
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A Gothic novel
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 28/07/2014
» It is only right that literary critics are expected to review the lot. Authors write about every subject and we are there to give a thumbs up or down on their efforts. Our object is to advise the public as to what is worth spending their time and money on. However, there are hitches.
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