Rogue Angel #2: SOLOMON’S JAR
Rogue Angel #2: SOLOMON’S JAR by Alex Archer (2006, Gold Eagle) The Rogue Angel series continues with Solomon’s Jar. In this episode, It begins with Annja Creed outrunning mercenaries in South America. The…
Rogue Angel #1: DESTINY
With all the “new pulp” talk these days, it’s time to start looking at some contemporary novel series. The 70’s and 80’s were good for the men’s action adventure books, this millennia, not so good. I keep expecting kindle and e-book publishing to solve that little problem, but in the meantime, Let’s see what else is out there.
AN EASY THING By Paco Ignacio Tabio (2002, Poisoned Pen Press)
An Easy Thing is the first book I’ve read by Mexican P.I. novelist Paco Tabio. Tabio’s investigator is Hector Belascororan Shayne, a former engineer and resident of Mexico’s capital city. He shares an office with a sewage expert, a plumber, and a chronically unemployed upholsterer.
Baxter: A Novel of Inhuman Evil
BAXTER. Novel by Jessica Hamilton (1977). Movie Version by Jérôme Boivin (1989). When the movie version of Baxter came out in 1989, it went directly to the art houses. Years later the video version was…
THE DAME (The Hunted Series) by David Zeltserman
THE DAME (The Hunted Series) by Dave Zeltserman (2012, Top Suspense Books) Zelsterman’s Hunted series continues with The Dame. Aspiring writers should be keeping a close watch on this seasoned pulp fiction writer. This…
THE HUNTED (Hunted Series) by David Zeltserman
THE HUNTED (Hunted Series) by Dave Zeltserman (2012, Top Suspense Books) Among the many wonders of the Internet is a resurgence of pulp fiction. There are many definitions of pulp fiction and I don’t plan on starting another…
OFF THE RECORD 2: At The Movies edited by Luca Veste
OFF THE RECORD 2: At The Movies, Edited by Luca Veste and Paul Brazill (2012, Guilty Conscience) Congratulations to Luca Veste and Paul Brazill for giving us another Off The Record collection. As in the…
MAPHEAD by Ken Jennings
MAPHEAD: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings (2011, Scribner) I myself was a maphead once upon a time. I’ve always loved maps and charts of exotic places. My parents subscribed to…
THE MOTE IN GOD’S EYE (The Mote Series) by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
THE MOTE IN GOD’S EYE (The Mote Series) by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (2011, Kindle Edition) Every now and then I find an older book which slipped past me when it was first issued….
CACHED OUT by Russell Atkinson
CACHED OUT (Cliff Knowles Mysteries) by Russell Atkinson (2012, Kindle Books) Geocaching is a pursuit which has gained a lot of popularity since it was first conceived in 2000. It was in that year…