Riordan looked something like Glenn Ford in Pocketful of Miracles and Fate is the Hunter and could always read a map. This story starts in 1944 with three brothers leaving Massachusetts and shipping out to the War in the Pacific Theater.ĭaniel R. By 2005, both Dan and Paul preferred hardcovers that were easy on the eyes, so I bought them both large-print hardcover copies of the book.īut that’s not where this story starts. That traffic pattern changed in 2005 when I sent them both a copy of a new novel by Michael Connelly: The Lincoln Lawyer, the first book in what would become a long-running series starring Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer, Michael “Mickey” Haller. It was always one-way traffic, I would read the books they gave me, not the other way around. They were old school gents and always called crimes novels “mysteries.” I was introduced to all the greats: Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane and Agatha Christie, Ross Macdonald and John D. I first learned about crime fiction from my father Dan Riordan and his brother Paul.
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