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Different strokes for different folks. I find it more tedious to have to go back to all the comments and make adjustments to stuff I may have posted months earlier. Plus, with my plot already completed, I'd have a built-in bias not to change it in any material way. Sometimes I get suggestions that make me change the direction of the plot - something I couldn't do if it were already wrapped up in a bow, except for doing little tweaks here and there. But I must say you're prolific and your approach has been working for you, proving there are many ways to skin a cat.  Jack

1. Liotta - Goodfellas
2. Spacey - The Usual Suspects
3. Pacino - Sea of Love
4. Cusack - Identity/Grosse Pointe Blank (can't decide)
5. Walken - Suicide Kings
6. DeNiro - Heat
7. del Torro - Traffic
8. Willis - Die Hard (any)
9. Depp - Donnie Brasco
10. Freeman - Seven
11. Bogart - The Maltese Falcon

Hope you had a great Fourth, too!

Wikipedia gives Serling credit for the TV movie with the same name as his book. I know Air Force One crashes in it, but I can't remember - did they find out the plane had been hijacked?

Witness would have been a good one, since you did include movies.

If we could have gone farther back in time, the selections would have been easier.

Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see any feedback from the last quiz.

Yes, it's possible - and has happened.

Philosophically, NJC, you propose an unequal debate. And that's precisely why Trump is as popular as he is. All he has to do is rant one-liners, and his opponents have to come up with reasoned arguments why what he says is false? One side has to do all the itemizing? Charles made statements, not backed up by argument at all, and you maintain that Vern's dismissal of them is intellectual laziness. You also suggest there are arguments Charles COULD have made to support his rhetoric, that we should all UNDERSTAND that, and to dismiss them is to lose the argument - IF THERE WAS ONE. But he didn't make the case, only insisted it to be true. Who's the lazy one? I say it's he who spouts unannotated invective. But TNBW is hardly the place for such discussions, in my view. An Op-Ed page of the newspaper would be more appropriate.

I never went into this book-writing game to achieve fame and fortune, but once I was into it, and sold some books ... What can I say? It's human nature! And then you have publishers breathing down your neck to SELL. But it's been fun, and I've not only enjoyed the relationships I've had here at TNBW, but have cherished the wealth of experiences used to give me input on what I've dreamed up for my stories.

This was a tough one, though some were easy. I had to fudge the time a bit for two, but they're close to being within 50 years.
1. Fumbling in the Dark (Marilyn Stasio)
2. Radiant Angel (Nelson DeMille)
3. Reaching Beyond (Nora Miller)
4. Murder in the Basement (Anthony Berkeley)
5. An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King (William Pepper)
6. Thunderball (Ian Fleming) Published in 1961
7. Murder at the Smithsonian (Margaret Truman)
8. Hotel (Arthur Hailey) Published in 1965
9. Plum Island (Nelson DeMille)
10. Six Years (Harlan Coben)

We're even!

Coben is more mystery than thriller, IMO. Horror can "thrill," but that's a separate genre. Okay, I'll give my favorites: Connelly, DeMille, (Lee) Child, Crais, Iles, Flynn, Grisham (sometimes) Sandford, Cussler, Clancy, Crichton, and, an oldie but goodie - Trevanian. I probably missed a few.