Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2018 0:52:13 GMT
I've only read two, plus the excellent Frederick Forsyth short story about weapons smuggling.
Soldiers and Innocents - Russell Celyn Jones. Heard some of it read on BBC Radio 4 and it's a testament to the difference a great narrator can make, because the prose sounded wonderful, and made me want to read the book. Years later I did and wasn't even sure where the passage I heard appeared. The writing seemed average and the story dull.
Lies of Silence - Brian Moore. A man is ordered by the IRA to plant a bomb at a hotel. Either scores of people are killed, or his wife will be killed if he doesn't go through with it. Really liked it, although I don't remember much about it now, some twenty years after reading it.
Soldiers and Innocents - Russell Celyn Jones. Heard some of it read on BBC Radio 4 and it's a testament to the difference a great narrator can make, because the prose sounded wonderful, and made me want to read the book. Years later I did and wasn't even sure where the passage I heard appeared. The writing seemed average and the story dull.
Lies of Silence - Brian Moore. A man is ordered by the IRA to plant a bomb at a hotel. Either scores of people are killed, or his wife will be killed if he doesn't go through with it. Really liked it, although I don't remember much about it now, some twenty years after reading it.