John O'Neill’s Reviews > Patriot Games > Status Update

impossible to overstate how bad this is but i’ve committed to this path

there’s something grimly fascinating about how reactionary and racist clancy was — among the hard right popular propagandists i think this stuff gets closer to the core of the thing than all the infinite ripoff artists doing his schtick in a contemporary context. no novelist has ever even approached his level of cultural ubiquity while being this vile