![]() ![]() If he knew he was about to be murdered, he would have mentioned it earlier, but even his murderers didn't know he would die. Daniel, a municipal archaeologist, knows where the bullion is and he wants to share it with his little brother, Hap. At the centre of his plot, in a Spanish galleon called the Carmelita that ran 'hard aground' 350 years ago, is a stash of plundered Inca treasure. Not that he has ignored the beckonings of fantasy. ![]() ![]() There are big guns, bigger guns, the odd hacksaw, and was that some kind of bazooka blowing through one character's midriff a cavity you could drive another character's Corvette through? Oxford isn't the only college town with a bloody body count, except that Hall, unlike Morse's creator, Colin Dexter, has rather more hard data - the life of Miami - on which to base his tale. Somewhere between matriculation and the writing of Hard Aground he must have done a subsidiary course in hand-held arms, because his latest thriller, among other things, is a manual on weapons. JAMES HALL is a poet and professor of English at Florida International University. ![]()
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