英文的武打小說

金庸的武打小說曾是我的最愛。那裏麵的人物色彩分明，大英雄、小美女，慷慨激昂、柔情似水。小說裏摻雜一點野史，似真似假，讓我這種愛看成年人的童話的人們讀得如醉如癡。到美國後，最為這裏長大的ABC們遺憾的就是英文裏沒有武打小說。可惜我們的兒女們永遠也無法享受那精神上的快感。

前不久在女兒床頭拾到一本小說《The Drawing of the Dark》，讀後有一絲驚喜：也是小說裏摻有真真假假的曆史（The cast of characters includes the wounded and probably dying Fisher King, immortal Merlin, reincarnated King Arthur, the ghost of Finn MacCool, an ancient ship full of only slightly less ancient Vikings on their way to Ragnarok, companies of Swiss mercenaries, legions of Turkish soldiers, spies, wizards, serving wenches, demons and, well, a whole lot more and the historical event of Turkish concor Europe in 500s）, 也有帥哥美女，也有神奇武功。。。 

看來兒孫自有兒孫福，沒有金庸有Tim Powers.