knives in books

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I studied a lot of Latin American literature in college. Knives play a huge role in the "gaucho culture" of post-colonial Argentina and often make their way into the literature.
The epic poem "Martin Fiero" is a great read if you can find a translation as are the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges, although
they are often not gaucho oriented.

 

[Uncle Bill]

I think it's Capstick who mentions his Randall now and then in his books about hunting in Africa.

 

[James Sass]

Marcinko manages to make some reference to his Emerson CQC7 in most of his novels. A friend of mine who is a homocide detective and knife entheusiast loaned a book to me, "HEAT" by William Goldman, the same man who wrot MAGIC and THE MARATHON MAN. HEAT is about a Mexican Veitnam Vet in Las Vegas, who inadvertantly became the subject of a Paladin Press type book on knife fighting because of his prowess with a blade in Nam. He is kind of a private spook who gets into an interesting adventure. Edged weapons figure promenantly throughout the book.

I just found a reprint of an 18th century book entitled "True Stories of Famous Pirates" that has an intresting illustration of two pirates knife fighting on the cover. I havent read it yet though.

 

[Schlager]

Burt Reynolds did a movie titled "Heat" which sounds about right for content. It had some interesting tricks in it too. -Brian

 

[stjames]

William Goldman also wrote The Princess Bride and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which contain my favorite sword and knife fights, respectively.

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James Segura
San Francisco, CA