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A.J. Quinnell - Medusa - 09-06-2011
I just saw Man on Fire for the first time and loved it! I looked up the IMDB trivia on it and saw that it was based on a book with the same title by A.J. Quinnell. Looking further on Amazon and Ebay I've found that this guy wrote 5 books based on Man on Fire's Creasy character. I can get Man on Fire on Ebay or Amazon but the other 4 are very hard to find. Has anyone else read any of these books? I'm wondering if they are good enough to try to keep searching for.
A.J. Quinnell - PicardRex - 09-10-2011
I've read the first two, Man on Fire and The Perfect Kill, both are pretty good, I still prefer Man on Fire, as The Perfect Kill is about him training a younger generation sort of deal. Though they are both quick reads, they were pretty entertaining.
Good luck trying to get ahold of books 3-5, I can't find them anywhere cheaper than like $30 for a paperback, and while they are good, I am not sure I want to pay that. It took a long time for The Perfect Kill to drop in price, when I first started looking it was like $25, finally found it for $5, had to get it from England though. I guess the problem, barring Man on Fire, is that they have been out of print for sometime and nobody connects the movie with the book, much less a series of books.
A.J. Quinnell - Alaric88 - 09-14-2011
Only read two of his books, man on fire was one of them. A good author, he publishes under a pseudonym, his real name is Philip Nicholson.