From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:36:46 -0700, Dimensional Traveler   
    wrote:   
      
      
   >IIRC Clancy is/was one of those authors who wrote up outlines and then    
   >farmed the actual book writing out.   
      
   This subthread (with its references to other writers as well as   
   Clancy) reminds me of Donald E. Westlake's novel /The Hook/, which is   
   about a famous writer who agrees to something of this sort if the   
   prospective ghostwriter will kill his wife for him.    
      
   Note that Westlake books labeled as "A Novel" are /not/ humorous. At   
   all.    
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)