by Ben Boulden
Harrison
Arnston – Harry to his friends and pretty much everyone else – wrote
nine published novels between 1987 and 1994. The critic Jon L. Breen, in his Armchair
Detective column “Novel Verdicts” called Arnston’s 1991 legal thriller, Act
of Passion, “unusually well plotted” with a trial that “is expertly covered…with
some terrific Q-and-A along the way.” Arnston followed Act of Passion with
another excellent legal thriller, Trade-Off, in 1992, but his work wandered
across the genre in unexpected ways. He turned the 1991 techno-thriller The
Big One – where a super-secret government agency is covering up a new
discovery for predicting earthquakes – into an enjoyable and outlandish detective
story, and The Venus Diaries, Arnston’s final published novel, is a swift
tale about an extraordinarily beautiful and brutal assassin for hire, raised in
post-World War 2 France by an embittered veteran of the communist partisans.
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