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October 15, 2004
Red Harvest
Fishing around for something to reread a couple of nights ago, I found a book of Dashiell Hammett's detective novels. The first he called Red Harvest, in which the protagonist cleans up a mining town called Personville. Personville went bad when the guy who more or less owned the town brought in crooks to help him break the miner's union, and the crooks stayed on to run the place for him.
The book describes a rough guy in a rough situation. Although I wouldn't want the protagonist, or probably the author, as my manager, he tells a good story.
Posted by Mark at October 15, 2004 09:39 PM