Maybe he didn't want to be sued by Marlin.Abraham wrote:I just finished a novel describing a Marline 30-30 Winchester and not once, but about 3 times, arrrggghhh.
Of course, I should have realized something like this would be in a novel by a guy who's a self-declared liberal, Bill Pronzini, a detective fiction writer.
He's not a bad writer, but he goes off on the occasional liberal rant, but most of the time doesn't ruin his novels with heavy doses of it...
You said this was a novel, so it is supposed to be fiction.
