CAPE HELL By Loren D. Estleman Forge Books 224 pgs Available May 2016 Now we’ve only read a few books by Loren D. Estleman but those were enough to convince us of his immeasurable storytelling talents. It is also clear he possesses a genuine fondness for westerns as this latest
SPANISH MOSS (A Robineux Mystery) By E.A. Cook Rogue House Publishing 169 pages Sometimes the story of how we received a particular book can be as interesting as the book itself. Several weeks ago we walked into a very small local bookstore. You know the kind, they make most of
BIG TOP TALES Edited by Jim Beard & John Bruening Flinch Books! 168 pages This is such a fun anthology and we want to applaud editors Jim Beard and John Bruening for not only bringing together a half-dozen truly exciting, fresh stories but for coming up with the concept in
LIGHTWEIGHT – Black Death By Nicholas Ahlhelm Metahuman Press 129 pages If you think surviving four years of high school it tough, try doing it as a superhero who can control gravity. That’s Kevin Mathis’s challenge in the second of Nicholas Ahlhelm wonderful series that explores both the angst of
GEORGE WASHINGTON’S SECRET SIX By Brian Kilmeade & Don Yaeger Sentinel Books 232 pages If like us, you are a devoted student of history, the title alone will have you wanting to know what this book is all about. What it reveals, in carefully research documents, is that during the
AMAZING – FANTASTIC – INCREDIBLE (A Marvelous Memoir) By STAN LEE and Peter David and Collen Doran Touchstone 192 pages I was a 13 year old comic book reader when the birth of Marvel Comics launched the Silver Age of Comics in the early 1960s. That’s why writer/editor Stan Lee,
LIE CATCHERS By Paul Bishop Pro Se Press 272 pages On average, we read approximately fifty books a year. The bulk of those are fairly decent whereas a small number are amateurish and difficult to get through while an equally small number are truly exceptional; what we call great reads.
GENTLEMAN ROGUE An Infernum Novella By Percival Constantine Nifty Entertainment 139 pages “Gentlemen Rogue” is the third in a series about a shadowy spy organization and the mysterious man who operates, Dante. The first was a mixed bag called “Love and Bullets” which evidenced the potential Constantine had as a
HITLER’S TIME MACHINE By Robert F. Dorr ISBN # 978-0-9863200-0-2 292 pages The fun of any new pulp adventure is you never know exactly what you are going to get. Oh, sure, you can make a few educated guesses based on your knowledge of the author’s history and the book’s
BANARAK – Storming the Gates By Van Allen Plexico White Rocket Books and 243 pages This is as yet another action packed adventure taking place in the fictional sci-fi mythology created by Van Allen Plexico call The Shattering. In this mythos, mankind exists in a universe made up of three
HILO – The Boy Who Crashed To Earth By Judd Winick Random House Children’s Books 193 pages What we have with this charming, wonderfully illustrated hardback book is a marriage between traditional children’s books and your standard graphic novel. Formatted like a comic but capturing the essence of a children’s
CRYPTOZOOLOGY ANTHOLOGY Edited by Robert Deis, David Coleman & Wyatt Dole New Texture 281 pages Once again, Men’s Adventure Magazines (MAMS) historian, Robert Deis, and his co-horts, David Coleman and Wyatt Dole, have put together another absolutely wonderful collection of bizarre tales culled from the various MAMS published between the
