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...writers of self-defense manuals. The most recherché of these literary crime fighters is David Krotz, author of How to Hide Almost Anything. Krotz, who is a carpenter as well as a writer, conjures up a harrowing world. Intruders perch upon window sills, second-story men prowl through closets, burglars tiptoe through kitchens and bedrooms. Their quest...
...Chow-like Keeshonds prowl the grounds. A new, detached sleeping house has a tile roof, unlike the flammable thatch of the main house. Beside the beds are stacks of ammunition, shotguns, pistols and Belgian F.N. automatic rifles. In the hall are a telephone and a battery-powered two-way radio linking Louw to the Centenary post. Even with all this, though, Louw does not feel safe. 'There's money to be made here,' he said, 'but what good does it do if you don't live to spend...
From what Great or Dismal Swamp in the American male psyche flows the Big Two-Hearted River? Where is the root of the city man's bloody compulsion to prowl the Big Woods and kill the beasts that live there? It is uncertain whether the source of that compulsion is the nature of man or the nature of boy, but it is explored with splendid eccentricity in this energetic first novel by Robert F. Jones, a senior writer for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED...
...students who came to hear him Monday afternoon, Morgan obviously saw himself as the cowboy against the Puritans. He confronted his student audience in his accustomed adversary role--well-practiced over ten years as a defender of individual rights against the majority--and went on the prowl for their weaknesses. He packed his Alabama law degree like a pistol; his work in the South became his white charger; and he mounted up in an effort to ride roughshod over Harvard's best and brightest...
...hunter is keener than a best-selling novelist on the prowl for a bankable plot. So when Jacqueline Susann said that she had always wanted to write about "women in their prime who lose their husbands by death or divorce," the results were predictable. The current Ladies' Home Journal contains a 15,000-word novelette (Dolores) that reads -well, like art imitating life. Pantherlike Dolores Cortez is widowed when her handsome Irish American husband, U.S. President Jimmy Ryan, is struck down in mid-term by a heart attack. Struggling to make ends meet on $30,000 a year...