CAPTAIN FUTUREThe Horror at JupiterBy Allen SteeleAmazing Selects159 pgs With the publication of this book, writer Allen Steele wraps up his four volume saga featuring Edmond Hamilton’s pulp hero Captain Future. With the series, Steele did not change Future and his Futuremen as much as revamp them for modern readers.
DEATH WAITS IN SHANGHAIBy Wayne CareyBold Venture Press236 pgs With “Death Waits in Shanghai,” New Pulp writer Wayne Carey introduces one of his most intriguing heroes ever, John Falco. The son of a New York gangster, Falco abhors his family’s business. He runs away to China where he is taken
FANCY ANDERS – FOR THE BOYSBy Max Allan CollinsIllustrated by Fay DaltonNeo Text118 pgs This is Collins’ second book featuring Hollywood debutante turned detective, Fancy Anders, set in the early days of World War II. What with Pearl Harbor fresh in the minds of most Americans, the people in Los
RUSSIAN ROULETTEA Tale from Champion CityBy J. Walt LayneChampion City Press150 pgs Supposedly this particular title is one of a series created by the writer. Unfamiliar with those, we can only discuss the prevalent events and plots of this one book. Which is itself a puzzling proposition as taken as
SPACE DETECTIVE – A Science Fiction Private Eye NovelBy Duane SpurlockInterroBang Tales303 pgs Every now and then a book comes along that pretty much spins readers around as if caught in a carnival ride. Spurlock’s story takes place in an alternate Earth where Native Americans still are active and present
ZOMBIE ISLANDBy Wayne CareyPro Se Press181 pgs For years young readers thrilled to the adventures of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. Now leave it to New Pulp scribe Wayne Carey to give us a thriller featuring a family made up of two brothers and one sister. The Hillstrands siblings,
BORN TO HANGA Jeremiah Halstead WesternBy Terrance McCauleyPinnacle Books316 Pgs. This is the fourth entry in the Jeremiah Halstead series and like the previous books, a slam-bang action packed western ride. At the end of the last installment, Halstead, the protégé of Montana Marshal Aaron Mackey, had been falsely charged
THE REVENGERSA Jeremiah Halstead WesternBy Terrence McCauleyPinnacle Books320 pgs When a western novel begins with a shoot-out and 300 pgs later ends with one, you’d better believe this reviewer was most satisfied. Such is the case with burgeoning western superstar, Terrence McCauley’s newest Jeremiah Halstead entry, “The Revengers.” Of course
BACK TO THE DIRTBy Frank BillFSG Originals307 pgs In his afterword, author Frank Bill tells us his father served in Vietnam from December of 1967 to Jan of 1969 as a Marine. We mention this reviewer was in-country between the summer of 67 and summer of 68. We were one
MOONLIGHT SERENADE – Part TwoBook Three of the Vim Hood ChroniclesBy Terry MarkAvailable from Amazon278 pgs With this book, writer Terry Mark wraps up his alternate world mega-saga he began several years ago with his first novel, “Kill the Night.” Having brought events to World War II, famous personalities ala
CAPTAIN FUTURE IN LOVE(The Return of Ul Quorn, Book 1)By Allen SteeleAmazing Stories108 pgs Once again we find ourselves playing catch up with a new pulp series. Last year we found “Captain Future – The Guns of Pluto.” Seeing that it was a new adventure based on Edmond Hamilton’s classic
THE SCORPION’S TAILBy Preston & ChildGrand Central Publishing401 pgs This is the second thriller in the Special Agent Pendergast spin-off series starring two of his best supporting characters. The first being Archeologist Nora Kelly who was around from the first Pendergast adventure teaming up with his young protégé, newly minted
