Word: erdman
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...Trinity, Uris (1 last week) 2-Sleeping Murder, Christie (2) 3-Storm Warning, Higgins (3) 4-Raise the Titanic!, Cussler (6) 5-Slapstick, Vonnegut (5) 6-The Crash of '79, Erdman (7) 7-Blue Skies, No Candy, Greene (4) 8-Dolores, Susann (8) 9-Touch Not the Cat, Stewart (9) 10-The Users, Haber...
...Crash of '79, Erdman...
...Dogs of War, Forsyth (2) 4-Jaws, Bench/ey (6) 5-House of a Thousand Lanterns, Holt (4) 6-Watership Down, Adams (5) 7-The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer (7) 8-Cashelmara, Howafch (9) 9-The War Between the Tates, Lorie (8) 10-The Silver Bears, Erdman (10) NONFICTION 1 -All the President' s Men, Bernsfein & Woodward (1) 2-The Memory Book, Lorayne & Lucas(2) 3-The Woman He Loved, Martin (3) 4-You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne (4) 5-Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, Read (5) 6-More Joy, Comfort...
...Silver Bears, Erdman...
...Although Erdman does not neglect characterization and the mechanics of storytelling, he is more intent on delivering cold truths. Mainly, that whatever speculators were hearing about the future of silver in 1969, it was largely piped misinformation from a handful of supersophisticated con men. In his novel, the lords of both the underworld and over-world put aside hurt pride to concentrate on profit by colluding to rig the market. All those dentists, airline pilots and what Erdman gleefully calls "greedy widows" who invested in silver futures never stood a chance. The odds of beating the professionals were about...