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Article: Is Bill Granger too predictable? // Latest novel foretells Haiti upheaval
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 11, 1986
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For Bill Granger, there's a healthy profit in playing prophet.
He doesn't call himself a prophet, you understand, but the term
seems more and more to fit the 42-year-old Chicago novelist.
In 1979, Granger's November Man, the first in a series of spy
novels, was published. It detailed a fictional Irish terrorist plot
to kill an Anglo-Irish cousin of the British queen on a boat off the
coast of Ireland.
About three weeks later, Earl Louis Mountbatten was blown up by
Irish Republican Army terrorists aboard his fishing boat off the
coast of Ireland.
Six novels later, in Hemingway's Notebook, Granger describes
upheaval on an impoverished, French-speaking, voodoo-ridden island in
the ...