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Gun Work by David J. Schow 12 Nov 2011 | 01:08 pm
I avoided writing anything about David J. Schow’s very intense book Gun Work when I read it a few years back, because I was so spun out by it and not sure what I wanted to say. I’m still not. I wrot...
Cornell Woolrich’s Fright 10 Nov 2011 | 02:15 pm
Cornell Woolrich’s Fright seems to have gotten mostly crappy reviews from readers on Good Reads, but I thought it was brilliant. It was the first Cornell Woolrich I’ve read unless you count the Rear ...
Jim Thompson’s Savage Night 30 Oct 2011 | 04:20 am
Savage Night is not one of my favorite Jim Thompson novels. Yet, in a way that is deeply annoying to me, it has recurrently proved itself to be a big influence on me. I’m not entirely sure why, so I’l...
Politics, Murder and Tears On the Occasion of Mr. le Carre’s Birthday 20 Oct 2011 | 02:00 am
Today is British novelist John le Carré‘s birthday. Why should you care? Let me tell you, it’s not because his books used to put your Grandpa to sleep. “I hate the telephone. I can’t type. I ply m...
[True Crime] Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series 18 Oct 2011 | 06:14 am
Near the end, I finally had to abandon this too-long, too-slow, too-discursive “biography” of Jewish gangster Arnold Rothstein, the guy who — as the subtitle (and The Godfather II, and every book and ...
[True Crime] No Angel: Jay Dobyns’ Undercover Infiltration of the Hells Angels 15 Oct 2011 | 04:42 am
I very much enjoyed No Angel, the first-person account by an undercover ATF agent who was actually patched in to the Hells Angels — though the investigation ended before he actually got his patch. It’...
Every Shallow Cut by Tom Piccirilli 13 Oct 2011 | 06:33 am
Despite having a pedigree from the edgy-as-hell horror community, Tom Piccirilli ultimately doesn’t have a gonzo bone in his body as far as I can tell. In recent years, at least, he writes taut, contr...
Lester Dent, Doc Savage, and the Marquis DeSade’s Lobotomy 13 Oct 2011 | 02:00 am
Today is Lester Dent’s birthday. Pulp fiction author Lester Dent, born October 12, 1904, died 1959, was better known by his pseudonym of Kenneth Robeson. Under this pseudonym Dent wrote 170-ish novels...
Happy Birthday, Elmore Leonard 12 Oct 2011 | 02:00 am
Leonard in 1989. Image from Miami Book Fair Archives. October 11 is longtime Detroit-area writer Elmore Leonard’s birthday. In case you’ve been living in a cave, Leonard wrote some of the most influe...
Two Recent Books About Colombia’s Cocaine Cartels 11 Oct 2011 | 07:11 am
The Accountant’s Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellín Cartel by Roberto Escobar (Grand Central Publishing, February 2010) At the Devil’s Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought ...
