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Salvation Alley
The excellent Andrew Klavan’s epic detective trilogy.
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Both groups are deluding themselves. They’re trying to deconstruct things that are based in love, and love is more than an inventory of its parts. Those who don’t experience it can’t understand it, whatever impressive words they use.
When the narrator meets Emma McNair, it’s a moment of incarnation, a moment when things he’s read about and studied suddenly become realities in his life. Although he makes himself only a small part of the story, his journey is the center of the whole trilogy’s narrative.
I want very much for people to read these books. Be warned, there’s lots of foul language, as well as intense scenes of sex and violence. But, in my opinion, the Weiss-Bishop novels are among the best things done in the mystery genre since Travis McGee sailed off into a chromatic sunset.
About the Author
Lars Walker is the author of several published fantasy novels, the latest of which is an e-book, Hailstone Mountain.
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Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.23.12 @ 9:46AM
Andrew Klavan? I thought it was Cliff Klavan, and I was going to read it to see how Norm and Frazier were doing.
CJW| 10.23.12 @ 10:15PM
Albert
In Avalon several years ago I found the Klavan trilogy at the used book store, and read them on the beach. Very well written and interesting. I was attracted to the book because of the Cliff Klavan name bought them after reading a few pages. BTW, John.... the actor who plays Cliff is a conservative, and Rob Long, a funny writer at National Review, was a writer on Cheers, and is a conservative.
KyMouse| 10.23.12 @ 2:36PM
Andrew Klavan talks about his writing and his faith in Jesus at http://www.jewsforjesus.org/pu.....-interview
Here is a portion of his interview:
"...I think my first serious engagement with [Jesus] was literary. When I was about fifteen, I read the King James Bible—not religiously, but because I wanted to be a writer and I knew it was a seminal work of literature, like Shakespeare’s plays....
"What got me was that when I came to believe in God, when I came to engage with the nature of God, I came to realize that the God I was engaged with was always the God of the gospels. If you think of God as a great city you have to explore, it was like, every street I walked down, there was Jesus waiting for me...
"...I didn’t want anyone to think I was turning my back on Jews, trying to escape my Jewish identity. The default mode with some Jews is to assume you’re trying to "pass as gentile" or blend in or that you hate your Jewishness and are joining the enemy. All understandable, because the Jews are the most mistreated group of people on the face of the planet and some of that trouble has come out of Christian sources, which stinks. Oddly, though, accepting Jesus made me feel more Jewish than I ever had, religiously at least. I had no connection to the Old Testament particularly, until I accepted the New."