FEBRUARY 2016 - ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY...SOME OF AT LEAST...

Book 6 in the Sam Archer series from Tom Barber. Amazon FREEBIE early in February and it was on my wish-list so why not. I've not tried this series yet, but have maybe 5 of them.

BOOM! 1st of February an e-mail from Goodreads tells me I've won a copy in a giveaway. The 11th Hap and Leonard novel. All I have to do now is read (with a bit of re-reading thrown in) the preceding 10 then I can tackle this one!

Last of the 13 titles in 13 months from Number 13 Press. Cheers to Chris at the publisher from this one!

Newly released by Near to the Knuckle - copy forwarded by Chris at Number 13 Press. I've read and enjoyed Matt Phillips' work before - Redbone rocked!

Amazon Freebie in the month, Lawrence Block offering 5 FREEBIES IN 5 DAYS! What a generous man!

One of the aforementioned freebies. Mr Block as John Warren Wells titillates with some erotica-soft porn.!

Pushkin Press - copy from the publisher!

An Amazon freebie during the month of February - short story collection edited by Alex Shaw and Maynard Sims! 

Net Galley book from Mulholland Books

Back in the 1980s, Wes Raney was an ambitious New York City Narcotics Detective with a growing drug habit of his own. While working undercover on a high-risk case, he made decisions that ultimately cost him not only his career, but also his family. Disgraced, Raney fled-but history is finally catching up with him.

Now in his early forties, Raney has been living in exile, the sole homicide investigator covering a two-hundred-mile stretch of desert in New Mexico. His solitude is his salvation-but it ends when a brutal drug deal gone wrong results in a triple murder. Staged in a locked underground bunker, the crime reawakens Raney's haunted and violent past.

From the vast, unforgiving landscape of the American west to the mean streets of New York, The Exiled is at once a riveting murder mystery and a brilliant portrait of a man on the run from himself, an unforgettable thriller that is "impossible to put down" (Frank Bill).

First spending of the year - 99p from a charity shop!

In 2001, Paul Bacon was a typical young guy in New York: overeducated, liberal, hip, a little aimless. But when 9/11 came, he was galvanized into action. Feeling that he had to do something to help his fellow man, he raced to Ground Zero, where he stood around for several days before finally realizing that he had no skills that were of any use in a crisis. So he applied to the fire department-and was summarily rejected; he was too old, they said, and he couldn't do any pull-ups. So he decided to take what was available to him: He joined the NYPD.

Bad Cop is Bacon's hilarious and thoughtful memoir of his three years among New York's Finest. Beginning with his tenure in the police academy (where he's mostly interested in pursuing the lovely cadet Clarabel - until he finds a surprising new love in the form of his service .357), it follows him through a reluctant apprenticeship and out onto the streets, where the sensitive former graphic designer is transformed into a rough-and-tumble Harlem beat cop. Brimming with great set pieces and amazing characters, this is both a love letter and a send-up of the squad that keeps New York safe - sometimes.

Another Net Galley book - well I do love Lansdale and Hap and Leonard!

Short stories and novellas collected. Hopefully the TV series will show up in the UK at some point in time!

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I did get a few more bits and bobs in the month, publishers and authors, a few short story downloads, another purchased book for 99p at the same charity shop as Bad Cop. I subsequently found I already had a copy of the other book! Oh well, can't expect to remember all 5000....

FEBRUARY 2016 - FILMS AND TV

A pretty good month's viewing all told. A trip to the cinema with my better half and a fair few films and TV series enjoyed on the small screen in my front room.

Into the Wild is a 2007 American biographical drama survival film written and directed by Sean Penn. It is an adaptation of the 1996 non-fiction book of the same name by Jon Krakauer based on the travels of Christopher McCandless across North America and his life spent in the Alaskan wilderness in the early 1990s. The film stars Emile Hirsch as McCandless with Marcia Gay Harden and William Hurt as his parents and also features Jena Malone, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn, Kristen Stewart, and Hal Holbrook.

Watched on a Saturday night with the family. Great film, based on a true story. Ultimately the outcome is incredibly sad, but would it be mean-spirited of me to suggest the guy was a bit of an idiot? He was at his happiest surrounded by others, not necessarily his family, why take yourself away from all that?

Hal Holbrook was nominated for an Academy Award. I did kind of recognise his younger self from the old days of black and white television growing up.   

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During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

Tuesday night and a trip to the local library theatre with my wife. I’m not a massive Tom Hanks fan, but I’m slowly thawing towards the guy after this and his performance in Captain Phillips, a year or so ago. We both really enjoyed this and were gripped pretty much throughout all 2 hours and 20 minutes. Spielberg directs, the Coen Brothers wrote it and it’s based on a true story and a few years from the life of American lawyer, James B. Donovan.

Defending Abel initially somewhat reluctantly, the film follows the trial, the appeal and Donovan’s subsequent negotiation of Abel’s exchange for a downed US pilot held by the Russians and a hapless American student, caught the wrong side of the Berlin Wall.  

You can find out more about James B. Donovan here. (Wikipedia)

A few years later, he was involved in negotiating the release of nearly 10,000 held by Fidel Castro in Cuba after The Bay of Pigs fiasco. 

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I read the book last year and felt I should make the effort to watch the film, especially as it was quite controversial at the time. I think it was banned for the best part of 20 years. Total ban? I doubt it, but probably some cuts were made. My copy was the uncut version and I can see why it caused a stir. Susan George's character gets raped, but halfway through she seems to start enjoying it. Interesting to see a young Dustin Hoffman in action and also to note the marked differences between the book and the film. There was a remake of this Sam Peckinpah 1971 classic a couple of years ago, but I haven't seen it. I may look it up at some point in the future.

Gordon M. Williams - The Siege of Trencher's Farm (1969)

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I think my youngest daughter chose this one from Netflix on a Saturday night and in truth you can do a lot worse than a bit of Sly and Arnie on a Saturday evening. Best film with either of these two? Probably not, but there was enough going on. Stallone goes undercover to test the fallibility of prison security, only one this latest job he gets set-up. I'm always happy to see Vincent D'Onofrio rock up in a movie and he entertains just as much as these two heavyweights. 

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Episodes 3 to 5 with the finale of Shetland airing early in March. Based around Ann Cleeves' Jimmy Perez character. Much shenanigans revolving around witness protection, murder, drug dealing, rape, the Glasgow underworld and corruption. Sorry I missed the two previous series. 

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A rainy Saturday afternoon in February, no kids around, just me and the wife, and this one popped up on the small screen. Initially trying to ignore it, I found I couldn't, so put the book down. A 1995  film starring Richard Dreyfuss as a struggling composer who goes into teaching and finds his vocation. A tad sentimental, but hey I wasn't the only one with a bit of grit in my eye at the end. I do like Dreyfuss, I kind of think he's under-rated as an actor. Make up was amazing, because when we start the film he's young and pretty much unrecognisable.

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Two hours of my life, I'll never ever get back. WTF! I love De Niro, I like Freeman, I like Douglas mostly, I'm indifferent to Kline. What we couldn't understand was who this film was aimed at. Youngsters - nope. Older men? Do they go to the cinema as a group. Women? Hardly. Kind of like an Inbetweeners for geriatrics. Four childhood friends grow old separately, but meet intermittently. Unresolved issues affecting two of the friends come to the fore at Douglas' last fling, old man bachelor party. Thank God we don't have Smellovision, because this absolutely stunk. We nearly aborted after an hour twenty, but decided to tough it out. Did it get better? Nope.

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BOOM - who doesn't like Clint as Harry Callaghan? Early 70s flick, first in the series. Seen it before, but a loooooooong time ago. Happy to watch it again. Did I feel lucky punk? Yep. Keeping my eye out for the next few in the series to turn up soon hopefully.

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A remake from a year or two ago. Michael Keaton and the dude I first saw last month in RUN ALL NIGHT - Jake Kinnaman and Gary Oldman star. Pretty good and I enjoyed it just as much as the original.

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I've had this on DVD for a year or so and decided to watch when my kids were out, fearing it would be a bit too slow for them. Well it was pretty pedestrian but in a good way. I had to concentrate which was no bad thing and ended up watching it over a couple of nights. Very, very good. Philip Seymour Hoffman is superb. A real shame he's passed. Time to dust off the John Le Carre book which this came from. 

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I was oblivious to this until my wife mentioned it. We watched all 10 episodes over a couple of weekends and were absolutely hooked. A true crime documentary filmed over 10 years. Steve Avery gets exonerated after serving 18 years for a rape he didn't commit. In the middle of a massive civil case for damages, he's thrust into the spotlight when a women he had an appointment with disappears and her vehicle is subsequently discovered on the 40 acre Avery family scrapyard. Avery and his nephew are arrested for murder. Very strange with lots of odd happenings.  

Probably biased towards the defence, but I'm still scratching my head at "American justice"....appalled, outraged, disgusted, but unsurprised! Recommended viewing.

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I'm starting to warm to this Hanks fella. Seen before but it was on when nothing else was, so we enjoyed.

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A month's viewing would be incomplete without a bit of action man Jason Statham. Sylvester Stallone wrote it. Statham is a former DEA agent whose past comes back to haunt him when he crosses paths with local meth-cooker and crime kingpin James Franco - someone I last remembered seeing as Harry in Spiderman. I'm sure he's been in lots more, I just haven't noticed. Statham does what Statham does best - he cracks heads and protects his daughter.

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Interesting adaptation of a case I can pretty much remember the headlines from. Not a massive fan of American sports, I knew OJ more from his acting in Naked Gun. Only two episodes from seven watched so far. Cuba Gooding Jr and John Travolta star, along with some chap from Friends - David Schwimmer. Travolta's face looks like it's been set in cement. It is his character, or has he had a treatment or ten too many? I am enjoying seeing Sarah Paulson from American Horror Story again.

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A decades-old rape and murder case still haunts a retired court investigator in this Oscar winner for best foreign language film from Argentina. But perusing the facts again as the basis for a novel, the investigator unlocks memories and emotions that many hoped would remain buried. Not just a taut thriller with a hackle-raising, twisted moral climax, director Juan José Campanella's polished adaptation of Eduardo Sacheri's bestseller is also a tale of unrequited love and a damning indictment of Argentina's past military junta. Campanella (a director of US TV shows like House and Law & Order) draws out beautifully shaded performances from his regular star Ricardo Darín as the investigator, whom you really cannot take your eyes off, and Soledad Villamil as Darín's former boss, and the action zips through multiple time zones while never slacking in thematic resonance. A brilliantly staged chase scene through a Buenos Aires stadium during a soccer match is a suspense highlight in this intelligently touching spellbinder.

A bit of a punt taken when recording this late on a Saturday night. I watched it the following afternoon with my wife and really enjoyed it. Amazing story, superb acting. How do I feel about the ending......fair play, he got what he deserved.
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An obnoxious group of friends struggle to survive the stag weekend from hell as a deer-hunting expedition in the Scottish highlands quickly turns messy.

Not too sure how many episodes this is, but it's at least two and I've only seen the first so far. An interesting start, a lively bunch of lads on a hunting trip in a remote part of Scotland - not all of them survive the first night as the gamekeeper from hell doesn't appear intent on taking too many prisoners.
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Two episodes aired at time of writing, but only the first one watched. Pretty good so far. Looking forward to more! It has Olivia Coleman (hooray) and an evil Hugh Laurie (boo) - only joking I do like Hugh, though I haven't seen him in many serious roles. I'm not a fan of House. I have Le Carre's book somewhere - unread of course!
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Ending the month on a bum note, a film with Liam Neeson and Antonio Banderas. Neeson believes he has the perfect marriage, but he doesn't. I'll admit I missed possibly a crucial bit or two when I made a cup of tea. Cut a long story short. His now dead wife was playing away with Banderas, a con-man and janitor. Something his wife leaves clues for him to discover after her death - I think. WTF would you do that for? Initially Neeson wants to find Banderas and kill him, but eventually they become friends. I'd have stuck with Plan A myself. My wife enjoyed this, my daughter pretty much ignored it - her phone was more interesting, I wished I hadn't bothered.  

MALCOLM MACKAY - ANATOMY OF A HIT (2013)

Synopsis/blurb……

Glasgow hitman Frank MacLeod is approached by an old associate. A shady accountant for a rival criminal organisation, Eric Holly wants Frank to arrange a meeting with his own boss Peter Jamieson. In return for Jamieson's protection - for both him and his wife - Holly will sell his secrets. But old friend or not, making deals with a killer is a dangerous business . . . Arresting, gripping and moving; ANATOMY OF A HIT is a dark tale of loyalty and betrayal set in the Glasgow Underworld, showcasing the most exciting new voice in Scottish crime thriller fiction.

Praise for Malcolm Mackay's Glasgow Trilogy, including The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter, How a Gunman Says Goodbye and The Sudden Arrival of Violence:

 ‘A very auspicious debut, this is an amazing novel, incredibly gripping from the first page to the last. A vivid portrait of the Glasgow underworld, it’s completely hypnotic . . . like the great writers, people like Elmore Leonard, Mackay paints really vivid portraits of his characters . . . a really unique voice’ Mark Billingham ‘A really clever multi-viewpoint novel about the Glasgow underworld . . . it will appeal to people who like to have a bit of a think as well as being entertained. The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter was a real revelation, a real find for me’ Kate Mosse ‘A dark, rich, brutal thriller . . . it absolutely captivates you. The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter is more than a page turner, it’s a page ripper. For a debut novel this sparkles, this zings, it leaps off the page. If you like Ian Rankin, if you like Stuart MacBride, if you like Val McDermid, Denise Mina – Malcolm Mackay is right up there’ Peter James ‘Glasgow’s a tough city and this is a tough book . . . very authentic, very gritty, you can really feel the streets. They call this genre Tartan Noir and absolutely [The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter] is a first class member of that’ Lee Child ‘There aren’t too many crime novels that take the reader into the mind, such as it is, of a hit man . . . This is a truly exceptional debut’ Independent ‘Mackay ratchets up the tension like a master’ Daily Telegraph ‘Remarkable . . . ‘tartan noir’ will have a new star’ Daily Mail ‘A remarkably original debut’ Observer ‘Brutal, witty and well-written . . . a brilliant debut’ Sunday Telegraph

Another impressive offering from Malcolm Mackay, 70-odd pages long and another trip inside the head of our Jamieson hitman Frank. 

Eric Holly, a nodding acquaintance of Frank's has an offer for Jamieson, his boss. He's close to retiring, hasn't enough cash in the bank for comfort, so has impulsively done a runner with the books of one of Jamieson's rivals. Reckless, impulsive and ill-considered, but Eric only sees the upside of his actions and feels sure Jamieson will pay him handsomely for the information and will protect him. Frank, somewhat ambivalent and emotionless isn't too sure.

An interesting look at criminals and the underworld, their hierarchies and executive decision-making - the planning, the plotting, the strategies, the cunning and intelligence that would be similarly suited to a role as a CEO in FTSE 100 company.  Then there's the mechanics of Frank and his role in the organisation, the somewhat monastic life he leads, the obedience to orders, the skills he brings to his craft, the aversion to risk and discovery, the ability to adapt to a fast changing situation and the execution of a successful job.  

An absolute belter.

5 from 5

Bought a few years ago on Amazon for Kindle.

I've read the first two full length novels in The Glasgow Trilogy.

THE NECESSARY DEATH OF LEWIS WINTER - reviewed here.

HOW A GUNMAN SAYS GOODBYE - reviewed here.

Probably time to crack on with the third - THE SUDDEN ARRIVAL OF VIOLENCE.

MAX ALLAN COLLINS - QUARRY'S LIST (1976)

Synopsis/blurb……

Killer-for-hire Quarry is trying to lie low when he gets a midnight visit from two other gunmen sent by an old associate. Someone wants Quarry off the scene--for keeps. Back in print, this early crime novel by the author of The Road to Perdition shows once again that nobody is harder-boiled than Quarry. With a new Afterword by the author.

The second Quarry book and ticks in all the right places for me – characters, pace, story, setting, length, action.

Quarry receives a visit during the night, less than friendly, but he deals effectively with the situation.

Sharing a room with a dead man can be a less than pleasant experience, especially if the man’s bowels empty when he dies, as is common. All of a sudden you begin to understand how the tradition of flowers at funerals got started. But this corpse had better manners than most, and wasn’t smelling up the room at all. He was in fact, better company than a lot of people I’ve met.

With a name from one of his visitors, Quarry goes hunting for an old colleague, Ash - Ash being in the same business as Quarry. Conducting a stakeout on Ash, Quarry learns that a hit is currently planned on an unidentified target and that Ash also has current plans afoot with mob lawyer, Curtis Brooks.

After revealing himself to Ash, the pair chat somewhat philosophically over the fact that Ash set Quarry up for being hit. Ash reveals his ambitions for taking over The Broker’s business – The Broker now deceased (from our first book) being the middleman for Quarry and other hitmen: arranging contracts and taking a fee. Ash is seeking the Broker’s List – something essential to the continued smooth running of the death business. The thought is that Quarry either has the list or is an obstacle to finding it.

An already interesting story, gets further complicated by the appearance on the scene of a young woman at Quarry’s hotel. Collins introduces a few more twists and surprises along the way, packing a helluva punch into a short book of 160-odd pages.

5 from 5

Quarry’s Deal, originally published in 1976 is next up.

Bought for Kindle on Amazon UK a couple of years ago.

2 BY RICHARD STARK (AKA DONALD E. WESTLAKE)

A couple this week from Richard Stark, a pseudonym of Donald E. Westlake.

Under the Stark pseudonym Westlake wrote 24 novels featuring a thief called Parker. I’ve read the first 16 in the series, all of which were published between 1962 and 1974. He took about 20 years off before returning with a further 8 books in the series, Comeback appearing in 1997. I have the second coming of Parker books, but haven’t yet read any of them.

Alan Grofield was a minor character in at least one of the earlier Parker books and ended up having a mini-series of his own. As well as these two, there is The Damsel (1967) and Lemons Never Lie (1971).

Westlake died in 2008 with over 100 published novels to his name(s). I doubt I’ll ever read more than half of them if I’m lucky.

I will have a good go though. After I eventually finish up with Parker and Grofield, the Westlake - Dormunder series awaits!

The Dame (1969)

Alan Grofield is a part-time actor and part-time thief. When working on a heist with a guy named Parker, he's all business. On his own, he's ready for anything at all, especially if it involves a woman. The first time Grofield sees Belle Danemato at her villa in the Puerto Rican jungle, she makes him an offer he can readily refuse. The next time he sees her, she's dead. And her husband, mob boss B.G. Danemato, can't get it out of his head that Grofield is responsible. To get out of this alive, Grofield can take his chances against the mobster's men in the perilous depths of the rain forest or find the real killer without delay. B.G. expects blood, and he wants it yesterday.

"Entertaining and inventive - a welcome addition to Mr. Westlake's Dortmunder and Parker series." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)

The Blackbird (1969)

Alan Grofield is a part-time actor. The rest of the time, he's a thief. If asked, many men would willingly risk their lives for their country. But no one did Grofield the courtesy of asking. Rather than go to jail after a botched robbery, Grofield is handed an alternative that lands him in the Canadian wilderness where Third World delegates have secretly gathered for momentous purposes. The situation is volatile, maybe lethal, and so is the beautiful African from Undurwa whose presence propels Grofield toward a wild and unexpected climax.

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART SEVENTY-ONE

Hopefully on the home stretch now, at least as far as physical books go - 20 or so tubs to go!

Tub seventy-one seems to be an almost even split between books my son has stored in the loft and my own titles. I'll endeavour to read some of them, I guess but I'm not a massive fan of James Patterson or for that matter science-fiction.

Tub 71!

James Patterson, Michael Simon, Thomas Harris, Koji Suzuki, Charles McCarry, 

Paul Christopher series book!

Koji Suzuki! No idea what it's about.

M. T. Anderson, John Macken, Frankie Dettori, D. B. Shan,

Vince Flynn, Jesse Kellerman, Tom Bouman, Neal Asher, Patricia Highsmith,

Tom Bouman!

Blog favourite - Patricia Highsmith - haha!

James Patterson, Stephen Jones, Jon Stock, Stephen M. Irwin, Jjames Patterson/Michael Ledwidge,

Jon Stock

Gregg Hurwitz, James Patterson, James Patterson/Michael Ledwidge, Sue Grafton, Jeff Abbott, 

Gregg Hurwitz

Another Kinsey book from Sue Grafton!

Eric Ambler x 2, Frank Herbert, James Patterson, Jeffrey Thomas,

Eric Ambler - an author I have yet to try!

Ditto above.

George V. Higgins, Peter Robinson, Len Deighton, Graham Hurley,

Len Deighton - Bernard Samson series book!

Sebastian Faulks, Stephen King, Marcus Sedgwick, Stephen Smith, Koushun Takami, 

Japanese YA book?

Charles Willeford, Tony O'Neill, Norman Mailer, Andrea Camilleri, Tony Hillerman,

Tony O'Neill - Sick City!

Charles Willeford - Autobiography!

Stephen King, Quintin Jardine, Mitchell Smith, Anthony J. Quinn,

Stieg Larsson, James Sallis,

Keith Jeffrey edited Magazine - Bullet Issue 1

Tub 71 - put to bed!

HIGHLIGHTS...... Eric Ambler (though I've never read him), Charles Willeford, Tom Bouman, Charles McCarry,

LOWLIGHTS....... James Patterson, Patterson/Ledwidge, Neal Asher, M. T. Anderson, Marcus Sedgwick, etc

FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:

AUTHOR		TITLE	YEAR	SERIES
ABBOTT	JEFF	TRUST ME	2009
AMBLER	ERIC	JOURNEY INTO FEAR	1940
AMBLER	ERIC	THE NIGHT-COMERS	1956
ANDERSON	M. T.	THE ASTONISHING LIFE OF OCTAVIAN NOTHING: THE POX PARTY	2006	ON1
ASHER	NEAL	COWL	2004
BOUMAN	TOM	DRY BONES IN THE VALLEY	2014
CAMILLERI	ANDREA	THE SCENT OF THE NIGHT	2005	IM6
DEIGHTON	LEN	FAITH	1994	BS7
DETTORI	FRANKIE	FRANKIE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FRANKIE DETTORI	2004
FAULKS	SEBASTIAN	DEVIL MAY CARE	2008
FLYNN	VINCE	AMERICAN ASSASSIN	2010	MR1
GRAFTON	SUE	Q IS FOR QUARRY	2002	KM17
HARRIS	THOMAS	HANNIBAL RISING	2005	HL4
HERBERT	FRANK	CHILDREN OF DUNE	1976	D3
HIGGINS	GEORGE V.	THE JUDGMENT OF DEKE HUNTER	1976
HIGHSMITH	PATRICIA	THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY	1964
HILLERMAN	TONY	DANCE HALL OF THE DEAD	1973	JL2
HURLEY	GRAHAM	ANGELS PASSING	2000	F+W3
HURWITZ	GREGG	I SEE YOU	2007
IRWIN	STEPHEN M.	THE DARKENING	2009
JARDINE	QUINTIN	POISONED CHERRIES	2002	OB6
JEFFREY	KEITH	BULLET 1 (ed.)	2004
JONES	STEPHEN	ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE	2010
KELLERMAN	JESSE	THE EXECUTOR	2010
KING	STEPHEN	THE DARK TOWER: WIZARDS AND GLASS	1997	TDT4
KING	STEPHEN	THE DARK TOWER: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE	1985	TDT2
LARSSON	STIEG	THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST	2009	M3
MACKEN	JOHN	BREAKING POINT	2009	RM3
MAILER	NORMAN	AN AMERICAN DREAM	1965
McCARRY	CHARLES	THE MIERNIK DOSSIER	1971	PC1
O'NEILL	TONY	SICK CITY	2010
PATTERSON	JAMES	CROSS	2006	AC12
PATTERSON	JAMES	CROSS COUNTRY	2008	AC14
PATTERSON	JAMES	LONDON BRIDGES	2004	AC10
PATTERSON	JAMES	I, ALEX CROSS	2009	AC16
PATTERSON/LEDWIDGE	JAMES/MICHAEL	STEP ON A CRACK	2007	MB1
PATTERSON/LEDWIDGE	JAMES/MICHAEL	RUN FOR YOUR LIFE	2009	MB2
QUINN	ANTHONY J.	DISAPPEARED	2012	IDC1
ROBINSON	PETER	WEDNESDAY'S CHILD	1992	IB6
SALLIS	JAMES	BLACK HORNET	1994	LG3
SEDGWICK	MARCUS	REVOLVER	2009
SHAN	D. B.	HELL'S HORIZON	2010	CT2
SIMON	MICHAEL	LITTLE FAITH	2006	DR3
SMITH	STEPHEN	CUBA - THE LAND OF MIRACLES	1997
SMITH	MITCHELL	DAY-DREAMS	1987
STOCK	JON	GAMES TRAITORS PLAY	2011	DM2
SUZUKI	KOJI	SPIRAL	1996	R2
TAKAMI	KOUSHUN	BATTLE ROYALE	2007	BR1
THOMAS	JEFFREY	BLUE WAR	2008	P3
WILLEFORD	CHARLES	I WAS LOOKING FOR A STREET	1988