{"product_id":"2940151528245","title":"Thrillers","description":"After years of intellectual nourishment from thrillers, along with the delights of suspense, Fraser explores the thought-processes of representative thriller characters coping with high-tension situations that require intelligent problem-solving and bring their values into a sharper focus. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith alert empathy, he follows Jack Carter as he hunts down his brother's killers in Ted Lewis's masterpiece Jack's Return Home (\"a kind of dark English Gatsby\") ; suffers along with violence-averse Rae Ingram coping alone on a small yacht with a dangerous paranoid in Dead Calm (\"a philosophical thriller\") by that fine  Gold Medal  novelist Charles Williams; and gives a lot of attention to Donald Hamilton's young professional men entangled with enigmatic young women in pre-Helm  works like The Steel Mirror (1948) where he was learning his craft. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a fourth chapter, he hacks at the wall between \"art\" and \"entertainment\" and loose talk about the \"world\" of the thriller. Lastly, he reminiscences about a fascinating safari that he made into the sex-'n-violence \"Mushroom Jungle\" (British pulp fiction ca.1946-54), and offers conclusions about violence and peace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe avoids jargon, combines an aficionado's enthusiasm with a scholar's accuracy, quotes generously to convey the texture of a work, provides background information for readers new to the topic, and illuminates \"craft\" aspects of fiction in general. His emphasis throughout is positive.","brand":"eBookIt.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47112996389104,"sku":"2940151528245","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940151528245_p0.jpg?v=1764011256","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940151528245","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}