Friday, March 17, 2006

Sandy McCutcheon, Writer

Exciting news at the View from Fez ... Samir writes, the book I was promoting on my recent visit to literary festivals in Australia was my latest novel 'Black Widow' .

From the review on The View from Fez: "We have not survived Beslan. We are no longer the people we were before September the first. We are different people now. Deep in all of us, like deeply buried shrapnel, lies the legacy of those days. Like so many others, it has become part of who we are. We are Beslan."

Sandy McCutcheon has taken a tragic real-life event and expanded it out into a fascinating “what-if” scenario that blurs the line between fact and fiction. The impotent feelings of rage that I should imagine are experienced by every victim of terrorism are given vent in Black Widow a tale that chronicles a carefully planned and executed act of revenge.

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