Lawyers and spies are common subjects for thrillers, but Scott Turow and David McCloskey are two novelists who take their thrillers to a higher level, by showing their flawed characters’ struggles for humanity and survival.
The best-selling authors each will headline a luncheon this winter for the Friends of the Bonita Springs Library.
The events, which raise money and awareness for the Bonita Springs Public Library, will again be held at the Audubon Country Club in North Naples
- David McCloskey, a former CIA operative whose latest novel is “The Persian,” speaks on Thursday, Jan. 22.
- Scott Turow, renowned author of New York Times best-sellers as “Presumed Innocent” and “Presumed Guilty,” is here on Thursday, Feb. 26.
McCloskey knows the spy business from the inside, having been a CIA analyst throughout the Middle East, including Syria and Iraq. His fiction is regularly compared to John Le Carré, the all-time master of the spy novel. Like Le Carré, McCloskey delves into a world where no one is entirely right or wrong, and many characters are conflicted and flawed…