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You might check out the book quoted in my sig line?

It's about hunting in a way, a greedy hunter, and men and the evils of men. I looked it up because I love the desert and ran into that quote somewhere and got the book. I found it good enough I reread it every year or so.

Then again..................................I'm weird........................and enjoy weird scheidt sometimes.

Never heard of that.

nick pitre.

havetnt read it yet, but was on the '$3 list at the DG.

I am not that fond of Baldacci novels but I enjoy Connelly, The Amazon series Bosch is an adaptation of the L.A. detective character in the Connelly books.

drover

Yep, threatened to shoot some jerk in one of the movies.

Good Christian messages in "her" movies too.

Blood meridian.

Just downloaded a sample of the book from Google Books to my phone

I re-read a ton of stuff. The Donald Harstad novels I mentioned in the OP? Probably read all of them 4 or 5 times now. Same with Connelly, Randy Wayne White, and others.

Once was enough, for that one...

I've read Jack Carr. He writes well, and his plots are plausible enough

I feel like he's reaching a bit with James Reece's genesis, or origin. Reece's father was both a spook/warrior, and an all American father who imparted superior moral convictions and a grand outdoor lifestyle to his son. Okay...

In my mind, Jack Carr/James Reece killed Hillary Clinton in his first book. Audacious...
And worth reading again, now that we've brought it up

Based on the dark exploits and violent end of John Glanton, served with the Texas Rangers under RIP Ford when they first went into Mexico as part of the war effort in 1846.

Watched "Official Secrets" on Netflix. Very good. (based on true events) But,,,, with the disclaimer, I am now a peacenik and have been ever since my enlistment was up in 1967. So, if you were a fan of Bush and Colin Powell, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Carl Rove, Tony Blair, and 'huge stocks of WMD's', you may not enjoy it.

Don't read fiction any more so can't recommend much there but it seems you like detective or police related material.

The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh is a good book and movie.

LA Confidential is a good noir type movie set in the 1940's with Russell Crowe and Kim Basinger. Basinger won an Oscar for her role here.

A lot of the old Humphrey Bogart classics are great, such as The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep in particular. Also lots of the film noir movies of the 40's and 50's like Double Indemnity. They aren't as gritty as modern movies but the stories and dialogue haven't lost anything with age.

Babylon Berlin is an excellent TV series from Germany about a rather conflicted police inspector in the late 1920's Weimar era, it's in German with subtitles but I think there is an English dubbed version as well.

On the somewhat lighter side, Knives Out is a good comedy/murder mystery movie.

Much of John Sandford's stuff. As mentioned, Grisham, Baldacci, Connelly. C.J. Box. Craig Johnson.

Also Robert B. Parker, and those written by others in his name (Ace Atkins, etc.) after Parker's death.

I like some local stories so J.A. Jance. She tells a now amusing/ironic story of going to the University of Arizona and taking a creative writing class where the prof told her to quit becaus she'd never be a writer. Her books have sold many millions of copies. Her husband was supposedly the writer in the family who never had anything published, apparently, as was the case of the professor. Their is a lot more to that story that she tells in person.

If you like sea going stuff Robert Bunes' new book "Wind, Fire and Ice" is out about a Coast Guard icebreaker acruise in !969-70. That one is meaningful to me.

Baggy Zero Four and Mike Five Eight: Air War Over Cambodia

The Author is some guy named Rocky Raab.

The Galaxy’s Edge series. If you like science fiction, military, space opera stuff. I’m like 19 books deep now.

I know Amazon sucks, but the kindle unlimited has saved me many hundreds of dollars every year.

If you like the old film noir movies, read some of the master writers of the genre. Dashielle Hammett, James Cain, and Raymond Chandler. Great story tellers.

L.W.

You recommended these before, and I'd like to check them out. Not seen them in print, and they're n ot available on Google books. Yet...

I've read a lot of Sandford's stuff. Mostly pretty well written.

I see JA Jance everywhere. Can't remember if I tried any of it, but I'm way leery of female fiction writers.

I read a couple of Wambaughs novels. His best are hilarious.

Well... Some consider The Onion Field his best. I don't recall the hilarity in that one, but it's been decades
Might be a re-read...