Thrillers by David Morrell

Author:David Morrell [Morrell, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Midpoint Trade Books
Published: 2011-04-05T02:43:07+00:00

Larry Gandle is the assistant editor of Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine. He is also a creator of the Barry Award for best thriller, one of the first awards to have that objective. Now there are others such as the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award of Great Britain’s Crime Writers Association and the Thriller Award of the International Thriller Writers organization. Larry works as a radiation oncologist in Florida and resides in Tampa.

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Richard Condon’s

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1959)

Robert S. Levinson

Richard Condon (1915–1996) published his first novel,The Oldest Profession, in 1958, and a year later scored his first major success with The Manchurian Candidate, a bravura thriller that brought him fame, fortune, and a writing career that included two dozen other books that bristle with wit, satire, and irreverent, often wicked, wisdom. His themes were frequently political in nature, among them Winter Kills, a critical success dealing with a family not unlike the Kennedys,The Final Addiction, and Emperor of America, while he more memorably invaded Mafia lore with Prizzi’s Honor and three sequels. Condon turned to fiction after twenty-two years working as a movie publicist, including a long term with Walt Disney Productions promoting Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Pinocchio, and Dumbo. A native New Yorker, he settled for a time in Paris, before moving with his wife and two daughters to homes in Spain, Ireland, and Switzerland, ultimately settling in Dallas prior to his death. Condon called himself a compulsive writer, who spent seven hours a day, seven days a week at the typewriter, and often quoted “Condon’s Law” about writing fiction: “When you don’t know the whole truth, the worst you can imagine is bound to be close.”

If you write one book that, for whatever reason, becomes iconic it’s an extraordinary blessing.

—John le Carré

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