The English Patient.

Wrong! That book is brilliant, one of McCarthy’s best. The stuff they leave out of the movie about the sheriff is hugely important to the story. Movie’s good, book is better.

lol, correct, that’s pretty close to the start of the book and it is total cringe. There is some good stuff in the books but I had to give up I think in the middle of book three where there’s quadruple-crossing spy stuff going on with Carlos the jackal and his invisible army of homeless people. The films pretty much took the name “Bourne” and did their own thing that is nothing like the books. In the books if irc Bourne is already a kinda semi-retired spy with specialization in oriental languages. Nothing like the films at all.