When I was a kid my dad always talked about a professional boxer who grew up in his neighborhood. He was a few years older than my dad, but ...

It's been a little quiet around here the last few weeks and it's going to get more so before things pick up. My wife and I are in th...

Spence was an awkward kid who spent his teenage years reading comic books and watching horror movies. After high school he spent three years...

This is yet another reprint. I actually re-read this story a few weeks ago and it caught me as well as it did the first time. Deaver is an a...

I often lose myself on the NASA website browsing Hubble and other space images. The images capture my imagination and wonder. They remind me...

I stumbled across a cool video on YouTube. It is a news feature about the Mack Bolan convention held in San Francisco in 1985. The film is l...

I have more good news. The third and final installment of Dean Koontz's Frankenstein series is scheduled for release this summer. The e...

Freetown, Sierra Leone is a haunted place for Danny Kellerman. He was sent to Freetown as a war correspondent in 2000—during the civil war—a...

I have more proof that the Internet is a very small place. I received an interesting email about a week ago from Desmond Bagley's sister...

I've been pinched with work, the end of a semester and moving, and the blog has suffered the last weeks, but the good news is that the l...

I was in the mood for old P.I. movies yesterday and what better private eye to track than Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe. I found fiv...

No Dominion is Charlie Huston's second novel to feature vampire tough guy Joe Pitt, and in it we find Pitt a little down on his luck. H...

My wife and I finished the first season of the television series Breaking Bad last night; all seven episodes. Not nearly enough. Breaking B...

I posted a link to the official trailer of the film The Poker Club a few weeks ago, but I found it on YouTube and I can embed it. I like tha...

Good news. The latest Rat Pack novel by Bob Randisi is scheduled for release and the cover art is drifting around the Internet. The title: Y...

Douglas Clegg is, one book at a time, proving himself one of the best horror writers working today, and he is in top form with his latest no...

A unique idea came from Central Crime Zone 's Jon Jordan (I learned about it from a post by The Rap Sheet' s J. Kingston Pierce) fo...

Spoiler Alert. This review is basically one big spoiler, so read with care. David Goodis is a writer that every hardboiled reader shoul...

The Skye novels are unique. They are a blend of the historical literary with the tall-tale dime novel. The characters—Skye particularly—are ...

I learned something interesting a few weeks ago—Alistair MacLean’s Navarone series ( The Guns of Navarone and its somewhat less successful ...