[Shooter 2.5]

I mentioned "Unintended Consequences" to him and he thought the book came in a plain brown wrapper.

I didn't recall any sex in that book so I read it again. Hmm, well, there is that one part. Oh, then there's the part at the match. Oh, yeah, and then there's that other scene, etc..

I think Ross did an excellent job. Now if he would only rethink the JFK stuff. LOL.

[Travis McGee]

IMHO John Ross missed the mark in writing to his audience. Most of UC's potential readership is naturally conservative, and does not go for kinky three way sex with strippers. Ross is obviously free to write it his way, but I think it kept UC from being widely read.

That, plus 200 extra pages of "the history of the gun culture in America." That was only going to be popular with serious shootists. Again, it kept it from a wider audience. Too much gun lore to wade through on the way to the story, it belonged in a separate book.

That's why I start on page one with the full-speed action. And that's also why (personal taste aside) I don't have any explicit sex in Enemies. There's romance that's very sexy, but not sexual. I see no reason to explicitly describe sex, we all know how it works! The sexy part is the "buildup," but when they get nekkid, I close the bedroom door so to speak.

I see it as the difference between "From Here to Eternity," (very sexy) and "Debbie Does The Gun Show" (UC: overtly sexual.)

Enemies is a very sexy book at times, but it's a book I would not be ashamed to have a preacher or mother read.