Patrick Anderson
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The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction
Patrick Anderson
There’s been a revolution in American popular fiction. The writers who dominated the bestseller lists a generation ago with blockbuster novels about movie stars and exotic foreign lands have been replaced by a new generation writing a new kind of bestseller, one that hooks readers with crime, suspense, and ever-increasing violence. Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post’s man on the thriller beat, calls this revolution “the triumph of the thriller,” and lists among its stars Thomas Harris, Michael Connelly, George Pelecanos, Dennis Lehane, Sue Grafton, and Elmore Leonard.
In his provocative, caustic, and often hilarious survey of today’s popular fiction, Anderson shows us who the best thriller writers are—and the worst. Most of all, Anderson demands that the best of these novelists be given their due—not as genre writers, but as some ofthe most talented men and women at work in American fiction. Don’t trust the literary elites to tell you what to read, he warns—make up you own minds.
