![]() ![]() ![]() And why not? His latest novel, Shadow Woman, appeared last spring to appreciative notices. As Perry thought back to his days as a graduate student in English at Rochester and walked through the twists and turns that led to his successful career writing action-packed thrillers, the profile that emerged was one of a happy man. To think of someone laboring to change something that wasn't wrong in the first place, all because of some bureaucratic directive, was just a little irritating.īut it was a minor vexation. The copy editor had revised Perry's text simply to make every word match whatever spelling the publisher's stylebook preferred. Not in order to correct a misspelling, mind you. ![]() Here and there, some copy editor had changed the spelling of a word. ![]() He had been reading the galleys for his next book. Morning was turning into afternoon, and the day's heat would soon make the sidewalks around his home in the San Fernando Valley hot as an iron, but that wasn't what bothered him. When the phone rang, Thomas Perry '74 (PhD) was feeling grumpy. Protagonist Jane Whitefield steps in to help. Sometimes, the good guys have to go on the run. Serial Thriller In Thomas Perry's novels, killers stalk their prey and bodies pile up. The Rochester Review, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA ![]()
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