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Finnegan's Week by Joseph Wambaugh (Morrow; 348 pages) is a caper story of a kind, if getting through the workweek without sinking into occupational depression, or into yet another doomed marriage, can be called a caper. Finbar Finnegan is a San Diego cop with three ex-wives and a receding hairline, but only in real life. He hates his job and wants to be an actor, and as this cheerfully silly tale commences, he is mugging into the bathroom mirror, preparing to audition for the part of a contract killer on a TV cop show...
...Devil Knows You're Dead (Morrow; 316 pages), Scudder lurks about trying to clear a half-mad homeless man of a murder charge. Why would this fellow have shot a well-dressed yuppie in a phone booth? Then, just when Scudder has discovered that the natty corpse had a lot of enemies, the homeless man is stabbed to death in prison. What's happening? The murk deepens enough to involve moral ambiguities for Scudder before he works out the answers...
Young Billy Frank was a big reader but a mediocre student who dreamed of becoming a big-league baseball player. But destiny had other plans for him, as Martin recounts in his exhaustively researched, revelatory biography A Prophet with Honor (Morrow). One day in 1934, 30 or so of the local farmers, squeezed by the Depression and despairing of their future, gathered at the Graham farm for a day of prayer. When Billy arrived home after school and saw the crowd in the grove, he explained to a friend, "Oh, I guess they are just some fanatics % who talked...
...Devil Knows You're Dead (Morrow; 316 pages; $20), Scudder lurks about trying to clear a half-mad homeless man of a murder charge. Why would this fellow have shot a well-dressed yuppie in a phone booth? Then, just when Scudder has discovered that the natty corpse had a lot of enemies -- he made his money ratting on tax evaders and drug dealers to the IRS and the DEA -- the homeless man is stabbed to death in prison. What's happening? The murk deepens enough to involve moral ambiguities for Scudder before he works out the answers...
SENIOR WRITERS: George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Martha Duffy, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Robert Hughes, Richard Lacayo, Eugene Linden, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Priscilla Painton, Richard Zoglin...