A former football star, law student, and wounded World War II veteran, he’s now a drifting gambler struggling to stay solvent. Leading man Hank Sturgis is a humble guy who’s seen a lot. One of his best-known works, Bimini Run (1949), combines action, concision, and an emotional dimension which in a scant 158 pages has the reader careening between characters and situations, and their entangling and final unwinding. Between toppling Banana Republics and playing hardball with the Russians, Hunt was the author of more than 40 adventure and espionage novels. Watergate burglary, which brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon.įew people, though, would suspect that Hunt also possessed a bit of poetry in his soul. Kennedy’s assassination, and most famously bungled the Hand in the Bay of Pigs fiasco, was suspected of prior knowledge and complicity ![]() With ice water in his veins and patriotism in his heart, Hunt had a Steve has written previously for this series about Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game, by William Kennedy, Cut Numbers, by Nick Tosches, and True Confessions, by John Gregory Dunne.)ĭiehard CIA cold warrior and political operative perhaps best known for hisįailures. ![]() Today’s piece comes from Steven Nester, the host of Poets of the Tabloid Murder, a weekly Internet radio show heard on the Public Radio Exchange. (Editor’s note: This is the 121st installment of our ongoing Friday blog series highlighting great but forgotten books.
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