boomer1911a1
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Unlike tbreed's very-worthwhile thread elsewhere under this category, I want to hear about novelists and writers who do either really good or really bad jobs of putting guns down on paper.
I'll start off. Mine are all good because I tend to forget/dismiss the bad ones and remember the ones I like...
David Morrell
The author of around 20 excellent thrillers, Morrell began his writing career with First Blood, which was the basis for the Stallone movies. He has always shown a fine sense of weapon knowledge (despite an early habit of calling propellant "cordite"... a habit he has since corrected.) His later books, especially, shown a great deal of research and attention to detail.
Robert B. Parker
Follower of Raymond Chandler, creater of the Spenser series as well as the newer Jesse Stone And Sunny Randall books, Parker has always put in enough detail about weapons to qualify. Aside from a jarring early reference to the M-16 rifle being chambered in "7.62 mm," his gun knowledge is pretty firm and always poetic.
Thomas Harris
You know him best from the Hannibal Lecter movies/books, although he also did the novel Black Sunday about the blimp attack on the Super Bowl (talk about a movie crying out for a remake...) Harris has always sounded gun-savvy. The opening gunfight in Hannibal was gorgeous and sublime in the novel, later ruined (among a great many other things) in the movie.
Let me hear some others. I'm anxious to expand.
I'll start off. Mine are all good because I tend to forget/dismiss the bad ones and remember the ones I like...
David Morrell
The author of around 20 excellent thrillers, Morrell began his writing career with First Blood, which was the basis for the Stallone movies. He has always shown a fine sense of weapon knowledge (despite an early habit of calling propellant "cordite"... a habit he has since corrected.) His later books, especially, shown a great deal of research and attention to detail.
Robert B. Parker
Follower of Raymond Chandler, creater of the Spenser series as well as the newer Jesse Stone And Sunny Randall books, Parker has always put in enough detail about weapons to qualify. Aside from a jarring early reference to the M-16 rifle being chambered in "7.62 mm," his gun knowledge is pretty firm and always poetic.
Thomas Harris
You know him best from the Hannibal Lecter movies/books, although he also did the novel Black Sunday about the blimp attack on the Super Bowl (talk about a movie crying out for a remake...) Harris has always sounded gun-savvy. The opening gunfight in Hannibal was gorgeous and sublime in the novel, later ruined (among a great many other things) in the movie.
Let me hear some others. I'm anxious to expand.