LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART SEVENTY-FIVE

Another tub of 50, all male authors with a sprinkling of non-fiction.

Pre-logging look!

Tom Kakonis, William Ryan, David Finkel, Colin Bateman, Joe R. Lansdale, 

Book 7 - Hap Collins and Leonard Pine!

One of my favourite books of all time, I've read it twice and I'm ready to go again!

Ex-con, professional poker player Timothy Waverly travels to Traverse City, Michigan for a break... and falls into bed with a seductress named Midnight. She's an out-of-towner, too, there to rescue her self-destructive brother, who has stupidly ripped off a fortune in cocaine from a vicious Chicago mobster. Now she is being chased pursued by Shadow, a hemorrhoidal hitman who gleefully specializes in torture and rape, and Gleep, his muscle-bound henchman. The odds are stacked against her, but Waverly is a gambler who knows how to play them...

"A sure narrative voice, a richly shaded hero and heroine, nightmare-vivid villains, and a plot paved with switchbacks and big curves add up to classy, if brutal, crime entertainment: this one cooks," Kirkus Reviews

"Aptly compared to Elmore Leonard, Kakonis builds exquisite tension." Publishers Weekly

"Original, brutal, nightmarish. Kakonis is a sharp new gambler in the literary crap game. He just takes the pot,"
The New York Times

Non-fiction travelogue, looking at the weirdness of the US.

John Baker, Gerald Seymour, Gregory McDonald, Scott Wolven, Barry Eisler,

Stories of prison, crime and men!

Brooding, edgy, and sometimes violent, Controlled Burn's loosely linked stories are each in some way a distillation of hard time -- spent either in prison, the backwoods of Vermont, or the badlands of the American West. Peopled by boxers, drunks, truck drivers, murderers, bounty hunters, drifters traveling under assumed names, and men whose luck ran out a thousand miles ago, these stories feel hard-won from life, and if they are moody and stark, so too are they filled with human longing.

Controlled Burn is divided into two sections: "The Northeast Kingdom" and "The Fugitive West." In each, Scott Wolven reveals a broken world where there is no bottom left to hit. In the haunting "Outside Work Detail," convicts stoically dig graves for their fellow prisoners yet reserve their deepest grief for the senseless death of a deer. "Crank" introduces Red Green, a maniacally brilliant addict who brews his own crystal meth in a backwoods lab, and whose high-energy antics inspire both cautious admiration and mortal fear in his business associates. In "Ball Lightning Reported," Red Green's ultimate fate is revealed. In "Atomic Supernova," a revenge-obsessed sheriff deputizes a known cop-killer to help him hunt down a counterfeiter and drug lord. The unexpectedly tender and heartbreaking "The Copper Kings" concerns a father facing the dark truth behind his son's disappearance. And in "Vigilance," a hunted man struggles to escape his past, always yearning for an honorable yet perhaps unreachable future.

Powered by a spare, ruminative prose style that recalls the best of Denis Johnson and Thom Jones, Controlled Burn is an unforgettable debut.

Arnaldur Indridason, Albert French, Mark Jacobson, Bill Pronzini x 2

Nameless number thirty-something from Bill Pronzini!

Non-fiction account of Vietnam and the US - a black man in a white world.

Personal, lyrical, and extraordinary, Patches of Fire is a memorable exploration of the black soldier's experience in Vietnam, the plight of the Vietnam veteran, and the redemptive power of writing.

With the same passion for truth and stunning honesty that marks his highly acclaimed fiction, Albert French's remarkable memoir tells the story of a young man's encounter with a war and with deaths beyond his understanding; of his return to a country torn by racial unrest in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and of his painstaking efforts to defeat his inner demons and make a place for himself as a black man in white America.

With a starkness tempered by humor, French brings to life the horrors of Vietnam, and recounts in compelling detail his uneasy tenure as a newspaper photographer, his heady days as publisher of his own magazine, his confrontations with the ghostly images of Vietnam that haunted his dreams--and the sense of renewal and purpose he achieved as a novelist.

Hugh C. Rae, C. J. Box, David Corbett, Buddy Giovinazzo, Leif Davidsen,

Joseph O'Neill, Bill Pronzini, Russel D. MacLean, Howard Marks, Don Winslow,

Don Winslow - Frankie the hitman!

Frank Machianno is a late-middle-aged ex - surf bum who runs a bait shack on the San Diego waterfront when he's not juggling any of his other three part-time jobs or trying to get a quick set in on his longboard. He's a stand-up businessman, a devoted father to his daughter, and a beloved fixture in the community.

Frank's also a hit man. Specifically: a retired hit man. Back in the day, when he was one of the most feared members of the West Coast Mafia, he was known as Frankie Machine. Years ago Frank consigned his Mob ties to the past, which is where he wants them to stay. But a favor being called in now by the local boss is one Frank can't refuse, and soon he's sucked back into the treacherous currents of his former life. Someone from the past wants him dead. He has to figure out who, and why, and he has to do it fast.

The problem is that the list of candidates is about the size of his local phone book and Frank's rapidly running out of time.

And then things go really bad.

Nameless again!

Don Winslow, Adam Baron, Martin Cruz Smith, Derek Raymond, Daniel Jeffreys,

Hugh C. Rae - Scottish crime from the 60s!

Tale of a pathological killer at large in a quiet Scottish community.

Elmore Leonard, David Goodis x 4,

40s and 50s crime,

Len Deighton, John King, Mark Powell, Rod Kane, Richard Ford,

John King

For Joe, the summer of 1977 meant punk rock, fun and violence. Fast forward to 1988 and Joe is on the Trans-Siberian express coming to terms with his best mate's suicide back in 1977. In the present, Joe still has to come to terms with Smiles's death.

Iain McDowall, David Baldacci, Jeffery Deaver, John Sandford, Ian Rankin,

Police procedural - 2nd in a series of 7 from Scottish author,

Cass Pennant, Sam Hill, Eugene Izzi, Jason Pinter, Donald Goines,

Eugene Izzi

With a hot blonde and two million in cool cash on the line, small-time hustler "Tone" Nello is ready to score. But there are those out there willing to make sure the only thing Tone scores is a bullet. On the mean streets of Chicago there are plenty of crooks, and when they killed George's father they made a big mistake. Now he is after revenge from Tone--tooong man. 

"Right up there with Elmore Leonard and Ed McBain".--Chicago Sun Times.

Donald Goines

For twenty-three years of his life Donald Goinse lived in the dark, despair-ridden world of the junkie. It started while he was doing military service in Korea and ended with his murder at the age of thirty nine. He had worked up to a hundred dollars a day habit and out of the agonizing hell came Dopefiend! It is the shocking nightmare story of a black heroin addict. Trapped in the festering sore of a major American ghetto, a young man and his girlfriend- both handsome, talented, and full of promise- are inexorably pulled into death of the hardcore junkie!

Tub 75 put to bed!

HIGHLIGHTS...... I'm looking forward to Tom Kakonis, Don Winslow, Hugh C. Rae, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.

LOWLIGHTS....... Not sure I want to read David Baldacci to be honest. Everything he writes seems to be the size of a housebrick - as I keep telling my wife "size isn't everything"

FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:

AUTHOR		TITLE	YEAR	SERIES
BAKER	JOHN	POET IN THE GUTTER	1995	ST1
BALDACCI	DAVID	THE WHOLE TRUTH	2008	S+KJ1
BARON	ADAM	IT WAS YOU	2004	BR4
BATEMAN	COLIN	SHOOTING SEAN	2001	DS4
BOX	C. J.	TROPHY HUNT	2004	JP4
CORBETT	DAVID	BLOOD OF PARADISE	2007
CRUZ SMITH	MARTIN	HAVANA BAY	1999	AR4
DAVIDSEN	LEIF	THE WOMAN FROM BRATISLAVA	2009
DEAVER	JEFFERY	GARDEN OF BEASTS	2004
DEIGHTON	LEN	SPY SINKER	1990	BS6
EISLER	BARRY	REQUIEM FOR AN ASSASSIN	2007	JR6
FINKEL	DAVID	THE GOOD SOLDIERS	2009
FORD	RICHARD	THE SPORTSWRITER	1986	FB1
FRENCH	ALBERT	PATCHES OF FIRE	1996
GIOVINASSO	BUDDY	POTSDAMER PLATZ	2004
GOINES	DONALD	DOPEFIEND	1972
GOODIS	DAVID	NIGHTFALL	1947
GOODIS	DAVID	THE MOON IN THE GUTTER	1953
GOODIS	DAVID	DARK PASSAGE	1946
GOODIS	DAVID	DOWN THERE	1956
HILL	SAM	BUZZ MONKEY	2003
INDRIDASON	ARNALDUR	ARCTIC CHILL	2008	IE5
IZZI	EUGENE	KING OF THE HUSTLERS	1989
JACOBSON	MARK	AMERICAN GANGSTER	2007
JEFFREYS	DANIEL	AMERICA'S BACK PORCH	1996
KAKONIS	TOM	MICHIGAN ROLL	1988	TW1
KANE	ROD	VETERAN'S DAY	1989
KING	JOHN	HUMAN PUNK	2000
LANSDALE	JOE R.	VANILLA RIDE	2009	HC+LP7
LEONARD	ELMORE	DJIBOUTI	2010
MACLEAN	RUSSEL D.	THE GOOD SON	2008	JM1
MARKS	HOWARD	MR NICE	2010
McDONALD	GREGORY	SON OF FLETCH	1993	SOF1
McDOWALL	IAIN	MAKING A KILLING	2001	J+K2
O'NEILL	JOSEPH	NETHERLAND	2008
PENNANT	CASS	CASS	2000
PINTER	JASON	THE GUILTY	2008	HP2
POWELL	MARK	SNAP	2001
PRONZINI	BILL	HELLBOX	2012	N37
PRONZINI	BILL	SAVAGES	2007	N32
PRONZINI	BILL	KINSMEN	2013	N
RAE	HUGH C.	SKINNER	1965
RANKIN	IAN	BLOOD HUNT	1995	JH3
RAYMOND	DEREK	DEAD MAN UPRIGHT	1993	F5
RYAN	WILLIAM	THE HOLY THIEF	2010	CADK1
SANDFORD	JOHN	CERTAIN PREY	1999	LD10
SEYMOUR	GERALD	CONDITION BLACK	1991
WINSLOW	DON	THE KINGS OF COOL	2012	S1
WINSLOW	DON	THE WINTER OF FRANKIE MACHINE	2006
WOLVEN	SCOTT	CONTROLLED BURN	2005