The Rap Sheet: Napoleon, Illya ... and Bill

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Napoleon, Illya ... and Bill

Bill Pronzini wrote a Man from U.N.C.L.E. tale? Who knew?

2 comments:

RJR said...: I knew.

RJR; 1:14 PM
James Reasoner said...: And it's the best of the stories from the U.N.C.L.E. digest magazine.; 8:38 AM

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“I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices, and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort.”
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