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By Stephen Hunter
| Wednesday, July 08, 2015 Off the Shelf
The memory factor for thriller writers is so brutally short that
it’s hard to remember who was published last week, much less last year. I
don’t even remember some of my own books! Stephen who?
But the thriller that made me want to write thrillers, the one
that obsessed me from my first reading and has always lingered, floating just
offshore on the vapors of memory, is Richard Condon’s The Manchurian Candidate.
I read it in a single sitting, on New Year’s Eve in 1962. Fifty-five years
later, it’s probably the only memorable New Year’s Eve I’ve ever had.... READ
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