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Crisp offers suspense novel
The News Leader, December 5, 2006 by Joel Banner Baird
The protagonist of William Crisp's new suspense novel, "Goodbye Vienna," abruptly ejects from life in the Central European corridors of espionage into a Dodge 4x4 pickup, bound for the mountains of East Tennessee. There ends, the author swears, the easy parallels between fact and fiction.
Crisp lived in Vienna as an economics consultant and journalist for 25 years before moving back to his hometown of Staunton — and his boyhood haunts in Highland County. The only real-life characters that segue into his fourth published novel (he's written a total of 16) are his black Lab, Jackie Belle, and his cat, Kiki.
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