LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART EIGHTY

Tub 80 and a ridiculous 4000 books logged, let's hope I can retire soon and read some!

Tub 80!

Malcolm Pryce, Tony O'Neill, Helen Walsh, Martin Amis, John Irving,

Not the Tony O'Neill I thought it was, but I still reckon I'll enjoy this one!

John Irving - short story collection

Here is a treat for John Irving addicts and a perfect introduction to his work for the uninitiated. In his spirited opening piece, Irving explains how he became a writer:

'A fiction writer's memory is an especially imperfect provider of detail; we can always imagine a better detail than the one we can remember. The correct detail is rarely exactly what happened; the most truthful detail is what could have happened, or what should have...Being a writer is a strenuous marriage between careful observation and just as carefully imagining the truths you haven't had the opportunity to see. The rest is the necessary strict toiling with the language...'

'With that in mind I think that I have become a writer because of my grandmother's good manners and - more specifically - because of a retarded garbage collector to whom my grandmother was always polite and kind.'

There follows six scintillating stories written over the past twenty years, including The Pension Grillparzer, previously only to be found inside The World According To Garp, and now given its first independent airing. The collection ends with a homage to Charles Dickens, of which the Sunday Telegraph said, 'so rousingly old-fashioned, so intelligent, so heart-felt, so politically incorrect and so correct in every way that matters, that it makes you want to dance naked through the streets brandishing a copy of Great Expectations.'

Mark Childress, Sean Black, Chris Simms, Mark Brandon Read, Charlie Huston,

Charlie Huston, Geoff Nicholson, Elmore Leonard, Colin Bateman, Edwin Torres, 

Joe Pitt novel 

NOBODY LIVES FOREVER. NOT EVEN A VAMPYRE.

Just ask Joe Pitt. After exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattan's Vampyres, he's definitely a dead man walking. He's been a punching bag and a bullet magnet for every Vampyre Clan in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, not to mention a private eye, an enforcer, an exile, and a vigilante, but now he's just a target with legs.

For a year he's sloshed around the subway tunnels and sewers, tapping the veins of the lost, while above ground a Vampyre civil war threatens to drag the Clans into the sunlight once and for all. What's it gonna take to dig him up? Just the search for a missing girl who's carrying a baby that just might be the destiny of Vampyre-kind. Not that Joe cares all that much about destiny and such. What he cares about is that his ex-girl Evie wants him to take the gig. What's the risk? Another turn playing pigeon in a shooting gallery. What's the reward? Maybe one shot of his own. What's he aiming for? Nothing much. Just all the evil at the heart of his world.

Geoff Nicholson

Mick is on his way to the Smoke from the provinces. He's got six guys to find with only their names to go on and no more help than the phone book and an A Z. Stuart is determined to walk each of the capital's roads, streets and alleyways. But what will he do when there's nothing left of his A Z but blacked out pages? Judy is set on creating her own unique map of each of the metropolis' boroughs . . . an A Z of sex in the city. Three strangers in search of London's heart and soul, mapping out their stories from Acton to Hackney, Chelsea Harbour to Woolwich, in a comic dance of sex and death.

Colin Bateman - funny as f***!

Set in a mythical Northern Ireland town. Drunken journalist Miller is sent as a punishment from his Belfast newspaper to small-town Crossmaheart as a replacement for someone who has disappeared. Once there, he falls is love with the missing man's girlfriend.

Walter Mosley x 3, Patrick Neate, Gary Phillips, 

Ivan Monk series book!

Set in the aftermath of the Rodney King beating and the subsequent riots, a novel set in Los Angeles in which a private investigator examines the murder of a Korean shop owner. Many suspect a racial motive, but it soon becomes clear to the private investigator that greed is a more likely motive.

Gotta love those 90s Serpents Tail covers - Walter Mosley!

The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the cops get interested. Now they need Easy. As he says: "I was worth a precinct full of detectives when the cops needed the word in the ghetto." But Easy turns them down. He's married now, a father -- and his detective days are over. Then a white college coed dies the same brutal death, and the cops put the heat on Easy: If he doesn't help, his best friend is headed for jail. So Easy's back, walking the midnight streets of Watts and the darker, twisted avenues of a cunning killer's mind....

Another Easy Rawlins book!

It's 1964, and Easy Rawlins has given up street life, and has a job as a high school janitor. One morning, Easy is seduced by a teacher with a dog. By evening, the teacher is gone, leaving Easy with her dog, and a corpse. A murderer is running loose and a little yellow dog is plotting revenge.

Walter Mosley, Sebastian Faulks, Denis Johnson, Jim Thompson, Andrea Camilleri,

1954 novel from Jim Thompson

Young, beautiful, and fearfully abused, Mona was the kind of girl even a hard man like Dillon couldn't bring himself to use. But when Mona told him about the vicious aunt who had turned her into something little better than a prostitute--and about the money the old lady has stashed away--Dillon found it surprisingly easy to kill for her.

Denis Johnson

From the National Book Award-winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a provocative thriller set in the American West. Nobody Move, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, California, and their cat-and-mouse game over $2.3 million. Touched by echoes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, Nobody Move is at once an homage to and a variation on literary form. It salutes one of our most enduring and popular genres - the American crime novel - but does so with a grisly humor and outrageousness that are Denis Johnson's own. Sexy, suspenseful, and above all entertaining, Nobody Move shows one of our greatest novelists at his versatile best.

Tom McNab, John Boyne, Walter Mosley x 2, Martin Cruz Smith,

Early 70s Cruz Smith!

The priceless Royal Crown of Hungary was on display in St Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Guarded by many, including the NYPD and the gypsy, Roman Grey, a heist was impossible. But it happened, and murder, mayhem and all hell broke loose. By the author of "Gorky Park".

Declan Hughes, Carl Hiaasen x 2 John McCabe, Ray Shannon, 

Carl Hiaasen - and his weekly rage against the machine! Collection of newspaper columns.

The "Miami Herald" columnist shares his best comic work, covering everything from sports and tourism to corruption in local politics, the Elian Gonzalez affair, and the 2000 presidential election recount.

John McCabe, 

What happens after you get away with it?

For Ian HAS got away with it. His computer banking scam. It worked. All he has to do now is stay out of England, sit back and spend the impressive monthly salary he hasn't earned.

But as an unexpected glitch begins to threaten Ian's cosy lifestyle, he realises that desperate situations call for desperate remedies. Even to the extent of moving to the West Midlands and pretending to be a mediocre scientist called Darren.

Darren doesn't know anything about this, but he soon will. All he does know is that someone has stolen his identity and is spending it unwisely. His blissfully unaware existence is about to become caught up in something entirely of another person's making.

Archie has never met Darren, and wishes that he had never met Ian. But now it appears that Ian has resurfaced, and is passing himself off as Darren. Things are beginning to look up. For when identities are being traded, it takes someone of Archie's incessant dullness to triumph amongst uncertainty.

Robert Crais, Jesse Kellerman, G. M. Ford, Sam Reaves, Various,

A novel by 9 folks!

Sex. Money. International terrorism. And, of course, the ultimate question: Can a compact backswing save the world? Now, in the tradition of Naked Came the Stranger and Naked Came the Manatee, a clubhouseful of acclaimed authors pass the baton (or the six-iron) to create an ensemble tour de force of suspense, romance, and hilarity on the links. Golf is not a team sport. But who says fiction can't be? Get ready. The gallery is hushed-and the approach shot nears. The birdie has landed... THE PUTT AT THE END OF THE WORLD Fore? No, nine! That's right. Nine literary grand masters each contribute a chapter and together bring you a full round-robin of characters, not to mention a blistering drive of a story line that beats par with every page.

Alfonzo Zamora is the venerable Mexican Senior player who's just discovered he's going blind. Billy Sprague is the country club pro with a swing as elegant as an eagle in flight-except when money's on the line. Rita Shaughnessy is the hard-drinking, hard-loving, hard-luck golfer on the women's pro tour.

All three receive an invitation from multibillionaire Phillip Bates, founder of Macrodyne Software. To inaugurate his dazzling new course in Scotland, Bates is spending millions to host a tournament starring the superpro trio. The gala will welcome world leaders in the name of global peace and the universal language of golf. Launching Bates's new, revolutionary computer operating system, the weekend volley will also attract a long scorecard of wild and unanticipated guests, including the world's most elusive environmental terrorist, a Spanish caddie named Humpy who inspires bogeys, a caddish pro who can't pass the Rorschach test, a sexy male-female counterterrorist team who keep driving into traps of their own making, a certain naked golfer making a bid for his hole in one, and enough plastique to end the world as we know it....

Will things get rough in the rough?

Will the green run red?

Where is the mysterious nineteenth hole?

And in an apocalyptic final play that will determine the fate of the world, ecoterrorists will converge on the course for an explosive putt to end all putts. The "Good Walk" has never been more fun!

John Le Carre, Charles Willeeford, Lionel White, John Lutz, Robert Goddard, 

My man Willeford!

A nervous breakdown, two daughters who want to quit school and a pregnant unmarried partner tells Hoke Moseley it is time to simplify his crazy life. Moving out of Miami to manage a small hotel seems a good idea - until psycho career criminal, Troy Louden, happens along with his makeshift gang that includes a little old man, a no-talent artist, a disfigured stripper and drags Hoke back to the job he thought he had left behind for ever.

1955 - Lionel White!

The wheels were beginning to turn. From all parts of the country quiet, tough men slipped into the small southern coastal town and took up the final vigil. There was the arsonist, the safe blower, the boy-faced killer-there was a regiment of crack, lawless men waiting out the minutes until Saturday night-the night the town would explode into violence. For in the center of town sat the bank-a citadel of twelve million dollars, impregnable as Gibraltar, safe as a church. Safe-until precisely ten-fifteen on Saturday night. Until the wheels began to pick up momentum, and suddenly a fire lit the sky, and the power went off all over town and under way went the king-sized knockover. The grand slam. The Big Caper.

John Straley, Mark Timlin, Paul Murray, Tony O'Neill, Daniel Lang, 

John Straley

Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King Salmon if you're Zen enough to wait for it. Settled in 1935 by Norse fishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town enjoyed prosperity in the mid-20th century, at the height of the frozen fish boom. But now the cold storage plant is all but abandoned and the population is shrinking every day.

Clive "the Milkman" McCahon returns to his tiny Alaska hometown after a seven-year jail stint for dealing coke. He has a lot to make up to his younger brother, Miles, who has dutifully been taking care of their ailing mother - and, really, all of Cold Storage. Miles is a physician's assistant and the closest thing to a doctor this side of Sitka. But Clive doesn't realize the trouble he's bringing home. He's reformed now, and his dream is to open a bar-slash-church (a Cold Storage ordinance requires there to be as many churches in town as there are bars). Clive's vengeful old business partner is hot on his heels, a stick-in-the-mud State Trooper is dying to bust Clive for narcotics, and, to complicate everything, Clive might be going insane - lately, he's been hearing animals talking to him. Will his arrival in Cold Storage be a breath of fresh air for the sleepy, depopulated town? Or will it turn the whole place upside-down?

The correct Tony O'Neill!

"Lupita and Genesis have just wasted a drug dealer and hit the open road with a suitcase full of dirty money and crystal meth. Little do they know that their road trip will set them on a collision course with a side of American life even darker and weirder than their own. IRVINE WELSH _'BLACK NEON is a pitch black classic slice of neo-noir, where black magic, art house cinema, drug-fuelled madness and apocalyptic violence collide with dizzying effect.I fell in love with every page.'

Tub 80 - sorted and logged!

HIGHLIGHTS........Charles Willeford, Tony O'Neill, Lionel White, Elmore Leonard, Jim Thompson, Colin Bateman, Walter Mosley and all the rest!

LOWLIGHTS...... Nothing - not a bad book in the bunch!

FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:

AUTHOR		TITLE	YEAR	SERIES
AMIS	MARTIN	OTHER PEOPLE	1981
BATEMAN	COLIN	CYCLE OF VIOLENCE	1995
BLACK	SEAN	LOCK DOWN	2009	RL1
BOYNE	JOHN	THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS	2006
CAMILLERI	ANDREA	THE TRACK OF SAND	2010	IM12
CHILDRESS	MARK	A WORLD MADE OF FIRE	1984
CRAIS	ROBERT	THE TWO MINUTE RULE	2006
CRUZ SMITH	MARTIN	CANTO FOR A GYPSY	1972	RG2
FAULKS	SEBASTIAN	ENGLEBY	2007
FORD	G. M.	BLOWN AWAY	2006	FC6
GODDARD	ROBERT	SIGHT UNSEEN	2005
HIAASEN	CARL	PARADISE SCREWED	2001
HIAASEN	CARL	KICK ASS	1999
HUGHES	DECLAN	CITY OF LOST GIRLS	2010	EL5
HUSTON	CHARLIE	SIX BAD THINGS	2005	HT2
HUSTON	CHARLIE	MY DEAD BODY	2009	JP5
IRVING	JOHN	TRYING TO SAVE PIGGY SNEED	1993
JOHNSON	DENIS	NOBODY MOVE	2009
KELLERMAN	JESSE	SUNSTROKE	2006
LANG	DANIEL	CASUALTIES OF WAR	1969
LE CARRE	JOHN	A PERFECT SPY	1986
LEONARD	ELMORE	TISHOMINGO BLUES	2002
LUTZ	JOHN	SCORCHER	1987	FC2
McCABE	JOHN	SNAKESKIN	2001
McNAB	TOM	FLANAGAN'S RUN	1982
MOSLEY	WALTER	A LITTLE YELLOW DOG	1996	ER5
MOSLEY	WALTER	A RED DEATH	1991	ER2
MOSLEY	WALTER	WHITE BUTTERFLY	1992	ER3
MOSLEY	WALTER	LITTLE SCARLET	2004	ER9
MOSLEY	WALTER	GONE FISHIN'	1997	ER6
MOSLEY	WALTER	RL'S DREAM	1995
MURRAY	PAUL	SKIPPY DIES	2010
NEATE	PATRICK	TWELVE BAR BLUES	2001
NICHOLSON	GEOFF	BLEEDING LONDON	1997
O'NEILL	TONY	RED ARMY GENERAL	2004
O'NEILL	TONY	BLACK NEON	2014
PHILLIPS	GARY	VIOLENT SPRINGS	1994	IM2
PRYCE	MALCOLM	DON'T CRY FOR ME ABERYSTWYTH	2007	LKM4
READ	MARK BRANDON	CHOPPER 5
REAVES	SAM	DOOLEY'S BACK	2002
SHANNON	RAY	FIRECRACKER	2004
SIMMS	CHRIS	KILLING THE BEASTS	2005	DIJS1
STRALEY	JOHN	COLD STORAGE, ALASKA	2012
THOMPSON	JIM	A HELL OF A WOMAN	1954
TIMLIN	MARK	TAKE THE A-TRAIN	1991	NS6
TORRES	EDWIN	CARLITO'S WAY	1975	C1
VARIOUS		THE PUTT AT THE END OF THE WORLD	2000
WALSH	HELEN	BRASS	2004
WHITE	LIONEL	THE BIG CAPER	1955
WILLEFORD	CHARLES	SIDESWIPE	1987	HM3