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{{Image|Michael Gilbert Portrait - smaller.jpg|left|100px|Michael Gilbert on the back cover of [[Mr. Calder and Mr. Behrens]], 1982}} | {{Image|Michael Gilbert Portrait - smaller.jpg|left|100px|Michael Gilbert on the back cover of [[Mr. Calder and Mr. Behrens]], 1982}} | ||
'''Flash Point''' is a novel by the British author [[Michael Gilbert]] published in England by [[Hodder and Stoughton]] and in the United States by [[Harper & Row]] | '''Flash Point''' is a 1974 novel by the British author [[Michael Gilbert]] published in England by [[Hodder and Stoughton]] and in the United States by [[Harper & Row]]. It was Gilbert's 17th novel. The American edition has an apparent subtitle shown only on the copyright page: "A Harper Novel of Law and Lawlessness". | ||
As one of Gilbert's editors said after his death in 2006, "He's not a [[hard-boiled writer]] in the classic sense, but there is a hard edge to him, a feeling within his work that not all of society is rational, that virtue is not always rewarded.".<ref>Douglas Greene of Crippen & Landrau, quoted in ''The New York Times'', 15 February 2006</ref> Such is the case here. | As one of Gilbert's editors said after his death in 2006, "He's not a [[hard-boiled writer]] in the classic sense, but there is a hard edge to him, a feeling within his work that not all of society is rational, that virtue is not always rewarded.".<ref>Douglas Greene of Crippen & Landrau, quoted in ''The New York Times'', 15 February 2006</ref> Such is the case here. | ||
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Flash Point is a 1974 novel by the British author Michael Gilbert published in England by Hodder and Stoughton and in the United States by Harper & Row. It was Gilbert's 17th novel. The American edition has an apparent subtitle shown only on the copyright page: "A Harper Novel of Law and Lawlessness".
As one of Gilbert's editors said after his death in 2006, "He's not a hard-boiled writer in the classic sense, but there is a hard edge to him, a feeling within his work that not all of society is rational, that virtue is not always rewarded.".[1] Such is the case here.
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Notes
- ↑ Douglas Greene of Crippen & Landrau, quoted in The New York Times, 15 February 2006
- ↑ The New York Times, 24 May 1959 at [1]
- ↑ Jacques Barzun & Wendell Hertig Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime,Harper & Row, New York, "Second Impression Corrected", 1973, page 207