Stop it with all authors and their signature characters! FFS, they couldn't even write a decent Mack Bolan book after Pendleton, thank God no one tried to finish up Travis McGee. When an author dies and another author finishes their last book, I might give it a try, but I seem to recall that I've been disappointed by most, if not all, of them.
When Parker (and I'm a lifelong fanboy/Spenser wannabe) finished Chandler's final novel, I was kinda meh about it, but at least I felt like I'd completed something. My first disappointment with Parker came with his very next Spenser novel that ended the exact same way, just with different names for the characters.
I saw Parker interviewed when the Chandler book was released and he was asked who he'd like to finish his last Spenser novel under the same circumstances. Without hesitation, he enthusiastically replies, "Oh, Elmore Leonard!" And his estate picked this fucking Atkins parasite.
That title brings to mind the OSS's Simple Sabotage Field Manual. Pages 28-30 have information on how to gum up meetings and organizations. I've seen this in operation when it was probably not the intent of the people doing it.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
https://www.amazon.com/Far-Feet-Will.../dp/1602392366
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me. Someone gifted me the 1950's copy they had, and I just found out there's a reprint from 2008 so it's still easily available. The basics are a German POW escapes a Russian forced labor camp and over roughly 3 years escapes Siberia. On Amazon it's billed as similar to "Unbroken" but unless the reprint is significantly different, I don't see the connection other than being POWs. Unbroken is a much more uplifting story. I don't want to say too much more for spoiler reasons, but it's not Unbroken.
It is, however, a good story and one of those "the best of people in bad situations/the worst of people in bad situations" dichotomies over and over. There's a host of characters (real people, mind you) that are interesting and sympathetic. It's not exactly graphic, but the level of detail gives you a good idea of the hurdles and distances involved. It's one of those stories that would be dismissed as implausible were it to be fiction.
So, recommended.
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Stephanie posted about Abe Books. They got multiple copies.
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Boo...-srp1-_-title1
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