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Robert Lane
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May 2013
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The Second Letter (Jake Travis, #1)
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2013
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6 editions
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Naked We Came (Jake Travis, #5)
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2017
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4 editions
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Cooler Than Blood (Jake Travis, #2)
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2015
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The Gail Force (Jake Travis, #4)
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2016
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The Cardinal's Sin (Jake Travis, #3)
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2015
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A Different Way to Die (Jake Travis #8)
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2021
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The Elizabeth Walker Affair (Jake Travis #7)
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2020
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A Beautiful Voice (Jake Travis #6)
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2018
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Searching for Dali (Jake Travis, #10)
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The Easy Way Out (Jake Travis, #9)
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Jake Travis Number Six
What is the title for Jake number six? Except for six months of editing and trying to make every word the perfect word until I can't stand it anymore, the novel is done. But, alas, no title. I do have a working title on the first page. But I haven't settled on it yet.
My first book, "The Second Letter" was named well after it was finished. "Naked We Came" was named a year before I hammered out the Read more of this blog post »
My first book, "The Second Letter" was named well after it was finished. "Naked We Came" was named a year before I hammered out the Read more of this blog post »
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There I am burying myself in Harrison and what to my wondering eyes should appear…this well written, easy to read definitive biography of Harrison published just last year. Oh, my lucky stars. Even if you have never read Harrison, know nothing about t ...more |
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| Brown Dog is the name of a self-destructive character and is considered Harrisons most successful creation. He fumbles through his days with little thought, reason, or direction. He’s after sex, that’s for sure. After that, food, French wine, and did ...more | |
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| I’m not really into poetry, yet I find myself occasionally buying it. (Poems That Make Grown Men Cry is my favorite. It spawned the greatest Amazon review I’ve ever read; I am a man. I read the book. It is as advertised.) I skimmed this one, looking ...more | |
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| Another collection of novellas. The semi-autobiographical lead story The Ancient Minstrel is about an ageing writer dealing with his demise and struggle for meaning. (Hmm, wonder who that is?) Harrison, who considered himself foremost a poet, has a b ...more | |
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| This collection of novellas vaulted Harrison out of obscurity and poverty. Legends, the third story in the book, is a multi-generational tale about a western family with three brothers. It was made into a 1995 movie starring Brad Pitt. The stories sh ...more | |
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A collection of nonfiction articles, many from magazines, (Esquire, Outside, Sports Illustrated) which the prolific Harrison wrote for. The stories display his zest for life, his addiction to the outdoors, his great appreciation of the American lands ...more |
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Non-fiction. By the author of Say Nothing reviewed previously. Nineteen-year-old Zac jumps from a London balcony into the Thames. He misses. Was he trying to commit suicide or escape? This true account story reads like a crime novel, but is ultimately ...more |
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| The first installment in terms of chronology of the four-part Lonesome Dove series, the prequel Dead Man’s Walk was released 10 years after Lonesome Dove. (Yes, that’s confusing.) Lonesome Dove, the 1985 Pulitzer winning novel, was made into a hugely ...more | |
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| I don’t know who churns out books faster, Connelly or Sedaris. Nor can I think of two authors more diametrically opposite. Sedaris hits gold again with his vignettes about every day life. His humorous, breezy narrative, laced with an acerbic attitude ...more | |
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| Detective Stillwell, banished to Catalina Island, investigates a murder while battling his superiors. Acting on a tip, Stillwell and his deputies camp out in order to catch a drug-running plane unload a duffle bag. But when they move in, bullets fly, ...more | |
“Hadley III hunched her paws underneath her and delicately consumed her dinner in a civil and dignified manner. Cats are the Audrey Hepburns of the animal world.”
― A Beautiful Voice
― A Beautiful Voice
“My father insists the past is like a rudder on a boat: it’s always behind you, but it determines where you go.”
― Naked We Came
― Naked We Came
“The rest of the afternoon crawled by with the dull consistency of a metronome.”
― Cooler Than Blood
― Cooler Than Blood
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