But he’d also get a kick out of the fact, 20 years later, people are still talking about one of his books — he also wrote a second Cam MacCardle adventure called “Sudden Death Finish” — even if it is just his son taking issue with a bunch of anonymous posters!

Reviews are reviews — Dad was hailed by The Des Moines Register, while The New York Times took a pass — and my taking issue with some random Internet reviewer is not an attempt to salvage my Dad’s literary reputation..

Hell, I know “CCD” wasn’t in the same league as “A Tan and Sandy Silence” — and so did he.

Rather, I guess I was just trying to illustrate that it’s easier tear down than to build up.

But I guess these days, if you don’t have something nice to say, you create a blog.

But I am curious… how did you find this review? Do you search out reviews of this book? I would think you’d be glad just to see it being written about. I would never have heard about it otherwise.

Denigrating the curricula vitae of Internet book reviewers is pretty close shooting fish in a barrel, is it not?

Perhaps my comments to you regarding “Cool Clear Death” should be directed to Bruce Grossman — I misread the mast head.

Same comments apply — he’s even less accomplished than you.

Thanks for much trashing “Cool Clear Death” written by my late father, Tucker Halleran, who passed away in 1986.

After witnessing the joy with which you dispatch my Dad’s book — written in his mid-40′s, after years in advertising and marketing — I went looking for some inspiration and quality in the original stories you have created.

But all I could find were examples of other people’s work that you have edited, scripted, or otherwise, interpreted.

So, I guess that’s where you honed your abilities to so eloquently dump on other people’s work — while trying in vain to finish something of your own.

But maybe it’s not so bad — not having an original thought.

Because, if you ever did, some yahoo on the net might crap all over it.

And I’d hate to see that happen.