Obama, Trump, and Something I Put In My Book Posted by By jim_snowden December 8, 2015Posted inThe Larger World When I was writing Summer of Long Knives, Bush's War on Terror was still fresh on my mind. Part of what kept me going through the novel was a chance…
Influences: To Know Kommissar Rolf Wundt, Check Out Tibbs, Burakov, and Rockford Posted by By jim_snowden July 22, 2013Posted inBooks, Movies, Television The protagonist of Summer of Long Knives doesn't have a historical counterpart. He's a product of imagination inspired by three different detectives from film and television. The first is Virgil Tibbs from In…