THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Sunday, June 23, 1996                 TAG: 9606210587
SECTION: COMMENTARY              PAGE: J3   EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Book Review
SOURCE: BY EUGENE M. MCAVOY
                                            LENGTH:   18 lines

JONES' ``LITERARY THRILLER'' DOESN'T LIVE UP TO ITS BILLING

A SINGLE SHOT

MATTHEW F. JONES

Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 248 pp. $22.

[This review is not available electronically. For complete text, please see microfilm.] MEMO: Eugene M. McAvoy is a writer who lives in Norfolk. by CNB