All posts by Woody Haut

Monsters Old and New : Edward Wilson’s »Farewell Dinner For a Spy«, etc. Edward Wilson is known – though perhaps not as known as he should be – for a handful of fast moving and historically-based espionage novels. What differentiates his fiction from his fellow genre travellers – e.g., John LeCarré, Charles McCarry, Ben Pastor, Robert Littell, Alan Furst – is his humane, but unapologetic, leftist perspective. Nothing all that radical, yet insistent, particularly when it comes to the relationship between an increasingly subservient Britain and an ever more powerful U.S.. InRead More

Posted On Juni 15, 2018By Woody HautIn Crimemag, CrimeMag Juni 2018

Woody Haut: It’s A Noir World

These days we all seem to live in a noir world “It’s a screwed up, bitched up world . . .” (Lou Ford in Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me) Was it always like this? The feeling that nothing is real. Not just ersatz, but a fake of a fake, a photograph of a photograph of the world falling apart. That food you’re eating, it’s probably genetically modified. The building you’re living in, most likely made from cheap, probably flammable, materials. And, most of all, that creep in the White House, aRead More