The Land of Terror (Doc Savage #8)
This is the second story originally published by Street and Smith (and the 2nd in the PJF chronology) and it is a bit rough around the edges. A professor of chemistry, Jerome Coffern, one...
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Vanilla Ride: A Hap and Leonard novel by Joe R. Lansdale
I’m not as glad to see a new Hap and Leonard novel as I am to be able to read Lansdale’s excellent dialog between these two and with anyone else that gets in their...
The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Only a small number of Señor Zafon’s books have be translated into English, including this latest one. The translator, Lucia Graves, must be given due credit for making Zafon’s writing as enjoyable in English...
The Day the Universe told us NOT to Gamble
My wife has won trips to the Super Bowl and the Atlanta Gran LeMans, among many other prizes. She does this with a bit of luck, but mostly through the daily hard work of...
Quiet Teacher by Arthur Rosenfeld
In the 2nd Xenon Pearl martial arts thriller from Mr. Rosenfeld, Xenon is presented not as the master martial artist of movie and legend, calm and reflecting inner quiet, but as a troubled human,...
The Man of Bronze (Doc Savage #1)
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Brand of the Werewolf (Doc Savage #5)
According to one source, Brand of the Werewolf is the best selling Doc Savage Bantam reprint,selling over 185,000 copies. In the Bantam series, this book marks the first appearance of Pat Savage, Doc’s cousin,...
The Red Spider (Doc Savage #95)
The Red Spider stands out in the long list of Dog Savage books for several reasons: It was purchased for Doc Savage magazine in 1948, but was not published until this Bantam book in...
Fortress of Solitude (Doc Savage #23)
Superman’s Arctic hideout of the same name may be more well-known; but The Man of Bronze, Doc Savage, has a similar blue domed research facility in the Arctic that predates Superman by 25 years....
Iraq’s impact on Iran
With many people in our democracy cheering the Iranians and their marching in the streets to ensure that their last election was indeed fair and democratic, I cannot help but wonder how much influence...