Tuesday, January 4, 2011

THE STAKE!

THRILLER CORNER: THE STAKE!

STEVE HOLLAND HAS AN INTERESTING POST TODAY ON HIS BEAR ALLEY BLOG ON LITTLE KNOWN THRILLER WRITER JAMES S. RAND AND SOME COOL COVERS (LIKE THE ONE ABOVE) FROM HIS BOOKS . . .

It was a bet with another newspaper correspondent that led to Attenborough's first fiction writing. Challenged to write a story in the style of a popular thriller writer in only a few hours, he succeeded and began selling articles and short stories in addition to his journalistic work. He then became managing director of Osborne and Co. (Glasgow) Ltd., a firm of metal merchants, and moved to Cardross, Ireland. Here he wrote his first novel, The Stake, a thriller set in Spain.

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