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Like I said Cam, I'm probably the only one - I know it's joking, question is.. is a joke like 'he's an idiot and it's charity to keep him on' in good taste? It sounds a bit denigrating. Yeah yeah, I'm nagging.

>>By Lynn   (Tuesday, 20 Sep 2005 21:00)



Well.. even if it's a bad review...it lifts him to page 6 ;-)

>>By Lynn   (Tuesday, 20 Sep 2005 21:01)



Hey Lynn, nothing wrong with calling an idiot an idiot IMHO. If it's not wrong to describe the guy accurately as having say, dark hair, what's wrong with accurately describing his reasoning ability? Of course, the idiot in question lived in Iraq because he had no choice--Falconer was there voluntarily. I'll let you draw your own conclusions from that.
Note to DF: Just kidding! No harm meant! Oh, God, please don't kill me.

>>By Just Jon   (Wednesday, 21 Sep 2005 04:41)



ROFLMHO!!!!!

.... and, of course, Just Jon, that makes you....?

>>By am-i-binned   (Wednesday, 21 Sep 2005 19:12)



Ok ok Jon, this for whom the cap fits...... ;-)

"I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing"

(anonymous quote)

>>By Lynn   (Wednesday, 21 Sep 2005 23:41)



Mea culpa.

>>By Just Jon   (Thursday, 22 Sep 2005 00:38)



Anyone know the ETA on Duncan's answers to fan questions? I'm almost as eager to see what ya'll asked as I am to see his answers! It's definitely gonna be interesting.

>>By Just Jon   (Thursday, 29 Sep 2005 13:09)



The man is passing his office as we speak .. and how I know ? I'll never tell !

>>By Ninjawoman   (Thursday, 29 Sep 2005 21:16)



Uhmm passing as in pacing up and down Ninj? Our Dutch word for that is much more adorable btw: 'ijsberen'
(on the other hand.... is it healthy, polar bears pacing up and down? sounds like a zoo thing)

Yes Jon.....can't reveal anything. Or maybe just one thing:

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!
Through you we learn to be invisible,
through you inaudible
and hence
we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands

No idea who the enemy is in this case.. but it's the thought that counts ;-)

Maybe I'm drunk

So what if I am..... SEE!! Even drunk I reveal NOTHING.

How can one reveal 'nothing' - what a silly expression. 'Nothing' is not to be revealed. It does not excist.

I errrrrr.... I better go now.

>>By Lynn   (Thursday, 29 Sep 2005 21:35)



Thanks for correcting me there Lynn but it is so darn difficult to look through bino's and type a coherent reply to Jon and to make it subtle, maybe that is something to revise the next print of "Zen and the art of invisable surveilance " ?

>>By Ninjawoman   (Thursday, 29 Sep 2005 21:41)



Try reading Harry Potter, the things you learn.....!

>>By Lynn   (Thursday, 29 Sep 2005 21:53)



You have an Invisability Cloak ??? WOW

>>By Ninjawoman   (Thursday, 29 Sep 2005 21:56)



Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhtttttt !!!!!!!!! Don't say this in public!! Now if they don't see me, they think I'm there anyway ! Now how am I gonna prove I was not anywhere where I was not in the first place.

>>By Lynn   (Thursday, 29 Sep 2005 22:01)



Must be something they put in the water in The Nederlands...........?

>>By camban   (Friday, 30 Sep 2005 10:32)



Yes but it is a secret ingredient made ....... oh yes .. I can't tell you it is a secret.

>>By Ninjawoman   (Friday, 30 Sep 2005 16:16)



Sorry Cam, it's sad when one feels forced to hide plain insanity behind an image of drunkeness ;-)
At least being drunk only lasts a few hours .....

>>By Lynn   (Friday, 30 Sep 2005 16:28)



A few hours? I've been drunk since 1988...And I have the gnooks posts to prove it!

>>By Just Jon   (Friday, 30 Sep 2005 20:57)



Ran into this one, really confused now. Does anyone know what's fact and what's fantasy here???

The Bomb Surgeon

Release Date: 05 October, 2006
Media: Paperback
Manufacturer: Time Warner Paperbacks

October 2006? Paperback?

>>By Lynn   (Wednesday, 12 Oct 2005 19:53)



Latest news was hard back in the spring, but what do i know ? Today is .. erm .. wednesday.. so that makes tomorrow ... erm ... em ...

>>By Ninjawoman   (Wednesday, 12 Oct 2005 21:15)



A fine help, as ever ... ;-)

>>By Lynn   (Wednesday, 12 Oct 2005 21:53)



hey i just got myslef a new dutch cap.................................... I get laughed at all the time for wearing it...... Which is strange as it has three points and three bells, bit like a jester...

>>By Milligoon   (Thursday, 13 Oct 2005 04:26)



I'm losing track of all the hats you wear Milligoon ;-))
Wish I knew what a dutch cap is.... though... three points and three bells... do I really want to? ;-)

>>By Lynn   (Thursday, 13 Oct 2005 09:14)



Aaah, the confusion continues......

The Operative
Duncan Falconer

Product Details:
# Hardcover 448 pages (February 2, 2006)
# Publisher: Time Warner Books
# Language: English
# ISBN: 0316731307
# Category(ies): Fiction , Crime, Thrillers & Mystery

Synopsis
In war-torn Iraq, Stratton's closest friend is killed whilst on operation, leaving behind a grieving wife and child - Stratton's godson. When the widow moves to Los Angeles she is brutally murdered and her child placed in state custody. Stratton, rocked to his foundations by the killing, uncovers a FBI plot to hide the crime and sets off on a private operation of revenge that eventually pits him against one of the most powerful East European crime syndicates in America. Hunted by the CIA and FBI as well as a brutal army of Albanian mobsters and armed only with his wits and an extraordinary skill with explosives, Stratton relentlessly pursues his private war; a fight he suspects could be his last. Yet another enjoyable Falconer weave of thrill and action wrapped in the rich authenticity that defined his previous novels, taking the reader on a roller-coaster ride across half the globe to a nail-biting climax.

The Bomb Surgeon
Duncan Falconer

Product Details:
# Paperback 480 pages (September 29, 2006)
# Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks
# Language: English
# ISBN: 0751536334
# Category(ies): Fiction

Synopsis
In war-torn Iraq, Stratton's closest friend is killed whilst on operation, leaving behind a grieving wife and child - Stratton's godson. When (etc...............)

Soooo.... hardback coming out February will be called the Operative, paperback coming out September is still The Bomb Surgeon??

>>By Lynn   (Thursday, 13 Oct 2005 10:07)



And what is this????

Title: Untitled Duncan Falconer
Author: Duncan Falconer
ISBN: 0316861863
EAN: 9780316861861
288 Pages
Publisher: Little, Brown
Binding: Paperback

Untitled ? Could this be the Rendezvous in Fallujah one? I eerrr... I like 'untitled' better ;-))

>>By Lynn   (Thursday, 13 Oct 2005 10:21)



Sigh... desillusioned about the 'untitled' one... even The Author himself doesn't know about this book. Uhm... I do know about ghostwriters but this is apparently a ghostbook, wow .....maybe it's being written on 'the other side'. Or maybe it's just the book of an unemployed ghostwriter who's looking for an author ;-)

Sheesh, rambling here.

Ok, the other news is, of course the paperback will be called The Operative also. That makes sense.

Seems that the only thing NOT making sense is Amazon. Well.. I never buy there so I'm not afraid of shipments from Amazon being lost because I'm saying they're SCREWING UP!

As I have permission to quote Mr Falconer..."My only other book is the Fallujah one - no firm title yet."
Thank you so much for sharing :-)

For 'the Fallujah one' - there's a synopsis somewhere on these pages but of course it's also on his website www.duncanfalconer.com

:-)

>>By Lynn   (Sunday, 16 Oct 2005 01:36)



Think of it this way Lynn, "untittled" as a blanco page.. a whole new empty canvas. Room for manouver I would think and ( maybe more impertantly) buyers who sell what ever it will be *ewg *

Keep at it Duncan , we are behind you. ( untill you will lose it and start making erm .. less quality, you are familiar with the term "hot potatoe "? Later !!)

>>By Ninjawoman   (Wednesday, 19 Oct 2005 20:06)



Uhm.... does this mean even WE could write the untitled book? Fill in the blancs...?????? Now who could write a synopsis of our fantasy..

>>By Lynn   (Thursday, 20 Oct 2005 22:29)



We could but would we buy it if we wrote it ? Would we enjoy reading it ?

>>By Ninjawoman   (Saturday, 22 Oct 2005 21:25)



Titles don't matter. Do ya'll realize how many of your fave films were once named "Untitled" or had "Working Title" under the name? Decisions re: title almost always above the pay grade of the lowly writer, and usually the powers that be make better decisions in that regard than the writers do. Writers ain't marketers, after all.
Speaking of marketing, odd isn't it that Falconer has a solid rep in the forces, reveals his face, was youngest SBS etc., and yet the McNabs and Ryans are more successful. I mean, Andy's famous for failing--not that the B20 debacle was his fault, but--that's what he's famous for, a failed mission. And Ryan's famous for, well, walking a long way and hallucinating a knife-fight with Iraqis.
Falconer acts like a human being rather than a brand--that's why he's not as well known. I'd love to see DF sell more, but at the same time I'd hate to see him go the route of Chris and Andy.
I will buy anything DF publishes, becauses I know he has goals other than making a buck. Even if he writes crap, he'll mean it. I totally don't mind that he refuses to read Randy McFab. Duncan's the shiznit and always will be.

>>By Just Jon   (Sunday, 23 Oct 2005 21:34)



Amen ! ;-)

>>By Ninjawoman   (Monday, 24 Oct 2005 16:58)



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