Book Review

“Weasels Ripped My Flesh!!” Book Review By Ron Fortier

WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH! Edited by Deis, Friedman & Doyle Published by: New Texture 416 pages Telling you this book is amazing would be perpetuating the biggest understatement of all time. It is a fantastic collection of over-the-top fiction and articles from those garish, exploitive men’s adventure magazines that proliferated

‘The Men Who Made the Yankees’ Book Review by Ron Fortier

THE MEN WHO MADE THE YANKEES By W. Nikola-Lisa Gyroscopebooks.Com 113 pages This is not the first time we’ve reviewed a non-fiction book in this column. That is not the relevant note here but rather what the theme of this new review is and our own personal passion. Let it

‘Sherlock Holmes: Blood to the Bone’ Review By Ron Fortier

SHERLOCK HOLMES Blood to the Bone By Andrew Salmon A Fight Card book. 89 pages Among today’s writers of New Pulp fiction, two men have risen to the top of their generation’s class in writing new Sherlock Holmes mysteries. One of these is Canadian Andrew Salmon, the other is British

‘Devouring Wind’ Book Review By Ron Fortier

DEVOURING WIND (Book Two of the Exchange) By Dale Cozort Available at Amazon 235 pages In book one of this series, a huge portion of Illinois was transplanted to an alien world and vice versa. The people, who chose to remain on that other, more hostile world, tagged it Bear

‘A Serpent’s Tooth’ Book Review by Ron Fortier

A SERPENT’S TOOTH (A Longmire Mystery) By Craig Johnson Penguin Books 335 pages First of all, we really wish we could read these in order, but life has conspired against us with this particular series so we plow ahead reviewing whichever is within arms reach at any given day. Two

‘Where Stories Dwell’ Book Review by Ron Fortier

WHERE STORIES DWELL By I.A. Watson Pro Se Press 204 pages If you haven’t been paying close attention over the past few years, then it might have escaped you that one of the leading voices in New Pulp Fiction these days is British writer, I.A. Watson. We can confirm that

‘The Specialist’ review by Ron Fortier

THE SPECIALIST By Joel Jenkins & Derrick Ferguson PulpWork Press 306 pages In the world of New Pulp fiction, two of the coolest heroes out there are Derrick Ferguson’s Dillon and Joel Jenkins’ Sly Gantlet. The latter has appeared in several in adventures along with his brothers as they are

“An Old Friend of the Friend” Review By Ron Fortier

AN OLD FRIEND OF THE FAMILY By Fred Saberhagen Tor Books 207 pages “An Old Friend of the Family,” was the third in the New Dracula series written by the late Fred Saberhagen (1930-2007). Best known for his Beserker science fiction series, his reimagining of the Dracula legend put forth

‘The Sleep Detectives’ Review By Ron Fortier

THE SLEEP DETECTIVES By Matthew Bieniek Self-Published ISBN-13 978-1493620142 134 pages Many times, while attending various pulp conventions, new writers will present me with copies of their self-published books to obtain a review. Such was the case with this little gem from Matthew Bieniek. It is a wonderful, extremely well

Blue Labyrinth Review By Ron Fortier

BLUE LABYRINTH An Agent Pendergast Novel By Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child Grand Central Publishing 403 pages “Blue Labyrinth” is the fourteenth novel in our favorite new pulp fiction series starring Special FBI Agent Aloysius Pendergast. We first discovered the remarkable, acerbic millionaire detective when a close friend gifted us

‘Nowhere To Run’ Review by Ron Fortier

NOWHERE TO RUN (A Joe Picket Novel) By C.J. Box Berkeley Prime Crime 320 pages One of the things readers often do is give books as presents. We’ve been doing that for years and recently our good friend, Gary Kato, send us “Nowhere To Run,” by C.J. Box. In the

‘The Legend of Caleb York’ Review by Ron Fortier

THE LEGEND OF CALEB YORK By Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins Kensington Publishing 229 pages Say the words Mickey Spillane and most readers will immediately Mike Hammer and hardboiled mysteries. Perhaps the furthest thing from anyone’s thoughts would be a classic western adventure. Which is exactly what this book

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