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Village Voice Newsletter • November 2013
moral dramas played out to unambiguous endings; where compassionate but tough American men use their courage and smarts to defeat evil empires and cruel warlords. Clancy was an outspoken conservative. His appeal was, for the most part, bipartisan. Boys and men of all ages, especially, enjoyed the pleasure of losing themselves in the worlds he built with words. I have ordered his final book, Command Authority, which will be shipped to me on December 3rd. **** In The Double by George Pelecanos, Spero Lucas is a young Marine veteran who returns to civilian life as a private investigator back home in Washington, D.C. He finds himself inclining toward extreme violence to resolve his cases. But Lucas is an honorable man and he frightens himself. Multiple story lines and intriguing characters make the story so gripping. What will really stay with readers is the visits Lucas makes to veterans hospitals and those quiet talks he has with the forgotten soldiers he befriends. The Double is a great sequel to The Cut where we were introduced to Spero Lucas. I trust we will be reading more about his adventures. **** Frederick Forsyth, author of The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File , among many best-selling suspense novels, has a new action-filled cutting-edge thriller, The Kill List. Although not as
gripping as the two novels mentioned above, it held my interest as a top secret agency, TOSA, pursues a master terrorist known as The Preacher, who radicalizes young Muslims living in the West to carry out assassinations. He has seventeen such assassinations to his credit. One of his victims is the father of one of TOSA’s top hunters of terrorists, an Arabic-speaking major, known within the agency as the Tracker. This is a classic good-versus-evil story. Who do you think will prevail? ********
The Golf Column
By Peter Russell I recently read Dr. Bob Rotella’s book entitled Golf is NOT A Game of Perfect. In so many ways it reminds me of a book by Timothy Gallwey titled The Inner Game of Tennis that I read 40 years ago when I was an active tennis player. He has since written another Inner Game book on golf which is no surprise in that the two sports have similar characteristics in many ways. The first is a book written by a sports psychologist written about golf, the 2nd by a Davis Cup champion in regard to tennis. They both focus on a similar theme in that they focus on mind over matter, or as I often summarized my game as “learn the mechanics of each game, then let your mind focus entirely on the object of your attention,” which is the ball, and let your mind control all of your
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