Distant Thunder

Previously noted, Stuart Woods the author passed in the summer, and he had, as authors are wont to do, a manuscript draft or two in the works. Posthumous, but just barely. I’ll be interested to see if the series lives with ghost writers picking up where the stories left off. In a previous collaboration, it was easy to detect who would write what parts, with the collaborator getting credit for a close emulation of the proper style, cadence, and mannerisms for the characters and the author’s prose itself.

What I’ve grown accustomed to, more than anything else, is an economy of style, or like I tend to think of it? A certain lack of style in these works. Something like 60+ books in the series, and I’ve got most them in hardback, 1st Edition, plus a few others in the author’s milieux. I noted that amazon had a placeholder for the next in the series, while there’s no title yet.

Three-four books a year, while I never tried, I’m guessing the word count weighs in around 50K per novel. Fast read, due, in part, it’s that wonderfully workmanlike prose.

Less thinking, more reading.

More properly?

“Less thinking; more reading.”

Well-executed, tightly plotted.