William Hay, winner of 3 Kenneth R. Wilson Writing Awards and Folio Award, Canadian Author Association member,author of Caesarean Section and Love Between the Sacred and Profane poetry books, and Psychiatry and Addiction, Personal Perspective book, magazine short story and prose columnist.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Circle William
I'm enjoying reading this superb thriller by Bill Harlow. I'm half way into the book and loving the characterizations. Schmidt brothers, one a White house press secretary in Washington, the other a maverick destroyer captain in the Mediterranean.. Terrorists and high tech. It's written in 1999. Ghaddafi is still alive and some of the background I didn't know about Libya comes clear in the novel. I really want to go to the south of France for a vacation now too. Capt. Bill Harlow was 25 years in the Navy and Chief of Public Affairs for the CIA. Now that makes a real kind of authority to attach to a decidedly talented writer. Enjoying Circle William so much I definitely plan to see if Bill Harlow has written anything more recent. I suspect his take on matters will keep the air of authenticity. I hope his characters continue too as other heros of the sea have like Richard Bolitho.
William,
ReplyDeleteI just stumbled across your kind comments. Sorry to say I have not written any new novels since Circle William -- but did co-author "At the Center of the Storm" George Tenet's 2007 memoir and have "Hard Measures" coming out April 30th -- written with Jose Rodriguez, former chief of CIA's clandestine service.
Not as many laughs in either of those books -- but I hope people find them informative, nonetheless. Thanks for your kind words.
Bill Harlow
Certainly an honour to hear from such a fine author. Now looking forward to reading 'At the Center of the Storm" and "Hard Measures".
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