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Well, you know, I think of thrillers as being like those ships that are in a naval battle

where they're throwing the cannons overboard, they're throwing their provisions over anything

to gain an extra yard over the enemy.

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It was just absurd.

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Charles Finch is here to talk about thrillers, which he reviews in a round up in this week's

issue.

Charlie, thanks for being here.

My pleasure.

So you start off your review of these six books with an interesting argument about the

writing in thrillers and how good the writing is and how good the thrillers are.

Can you tell us what point that you were making?

Well, I think of thrillers as being like those ships that are in a naval battle where

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