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Silent Terror | James Ellroy His crimes span decades and cover the breadth of America. He comes and goes silently, invisibly, adapting himself to the changing society around him. Martin Michael Plunkett - articulate, of genius-level intelligence, and a ruthless and deranged sex killer. Beneath his calm veneer, his mind is filled with raging voices that spring from one defining moment in his life, a moment so shocking he has buried it for thirty years. Sentenced to Life in Sing Sing prison, Plunkett begins his autobiographical memoir, an account of more than fifty killings, a trail of casual encounters and bloody slayings from West Coast to East that made him America`s most wanted serial killer and its greatest enigma. His account will drive even those who brought him to justice to despair. Read review. |
The Price of the Ticket | Jim Nisbet One ought to thank Dennis McMillan Publications for reissuing Jim Nisbet`s The Price of the Ticket. Originally published in French as Sous le signe du rasoir, Nisbet and his oeuvre, seven novels and five volumes of poetry, are unknown to readers who haven`t scratched the surface beneath the best seller lists. When Pauley, an ex-con living on the fringe of society in San Francisco purchases a used pick-up truck from Martin Seam, a young man who is a blank page but feels himself possessed of wisdom, taste, talent etc, a short and bloody road trip is mapped out for both. Read review. |
Their Wildest Dreams | Peter Abrahams Mackie dreaded the mail. From this simple beginning, Peter Abrahams opens the curtains on a mesmerizing world down on the Mexican border, a world of complex and passionate people whose ambitions will lead them on a relentless collision course, a desert world that rises to the mythic in Iheir Wildest Dreams. The suspense will grab you and not let go, the surprises will shock you, but in the end it will be the wonderful characters who remain in your mind. Characters like Mackie Larkin, a suburban mother desperate for money, who finds she can earn it as a stripper; Kevin Larkin, her ex-husband whose get- rich-quick schemes left her with a mountain of debt, and who now dreams up an even better one; Lianne, their beautiful, impulsive teenage daughter, for whom almost anything, even bank robbery, is possible; Jimmy Marz, the wrangler Lianne loves, who gets a dangerous onetime offer that could take him to the life he`s always wanted; Buck Samsonov, the charismatic strip-club owner building a southwestern empire in the lawless style of a nineteenth-century robber baron; Clay Krupsha, a twenty-first-century captain of detectives in a border town where no crime is what it seems; and Nicholas Loeb, a struggling mystery writer whose encounter with an unstable muse entangles him in a web of true crime more mysterious than anything he imagined. Utterly original, multilayered, and marked by the gripping suspense, sharp wit, and fascinating psychological insights for which Peter Abrahams has been acclaimed, here is a major work-a riveting story of modern-day desperadoes living their wildest dreams. Read review. |
Little Boy Blue | Edward Bunker Young Alex Hammond is intelligent and independent but given to sudden fits of violent rage. Rebellious since his parents split up, Alex is constantly absconding from foster homes and institutions to be with his father, a broken man who can`t give his son the home he desparately needs. Surrounded by well-meaning, over-worked social workers vicious and cruel authority figures but always by no good peers, Alex is on a collision course with the law and himself. |
Dog Eat Dog | Edward Bunker Dog Eat Dog is the story of three men fresh out of prison who now have the task of adapting to civilian life. Troy, an aloof mastermind, seeks an uncomplicated, clean life but cannot get away from his hatred of the system. Diesel is on the mob`s payroll and interest in his suburban home and nagging wife is waning. The loose cannon of the trio, Mad Dog, is possessed by true demons within, that lead him from one explosive situation to the next. One more hit, one more jackpot, and they`ll all be satisfied. |
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