When it comes to post-apocalyptic and men's action-adventure, Paperback Warrior has featured a number of reviews of books featuring bi...

With over 30 novels in a career that spanned 1951-1970, WW2 veteran Gil Brewer is considered a cornerstone of crime-fiction. His mid-era n...

Beginning in the Mid-20th Century, model Steve Holland found plenty of opportunities to influence the look and feel of men's action-...

Between 1947 and 1981, attorney-turned-author Harold Q. Masur (1909-2005) wrote 11 installments of a successful mystery series starring at...

Between 1950 and 1969, Louisiana native and WW2 veteran  John Burton Thompson (1911-1994) authored and sold around 75 books. His paperbac...

Popular crime-fiction author  Wade Miller was actually a collaborative pseudonym utilized by two writers – Bob Wade (1920-2012) and Bill ...

It’s time for Paperback Warrior Podcast Episode 35. In this episode, we discuss the meaning of noir fiction as a jumping off point for a car...

“After the success of I Killed Stalin ,  Sterling Noel (1903-1984) settled into a niche of writing international espionage and crime-noir...

After the third Dirty Harry film, The Enforcer , star actor Clint Eastwood announced he would no longer contribute to the film franchise....

After enjoying a trio of crime-fiction novels by  Clifton Adams (1919-1971), my first look at the author’s prolific western sagas was the...

Harlan Ellison (1934-2018) is mostly known for his work as a  science-fiction author and essayist. While going through U.S. Army basic trai...

With 1984's My Way , the four-book  Wasteworld series comes to an abrupt end. Authored by a combination of Laurence James and Angus...

Of the 20-or-so crime novels written by  Robert Colby in the 1950s and 1960s, the overall consensus is that The Captain Must Die is his ...

Parallel to crime-fiction staples like  Mike Shayne and Shell Scott ,  Johnny Liddell was a no-nonsense private-eye operating under the ...

Author Steve Frazee (1909-1992) began selling his stories to the  western and adventure  pulps in the late 1940s. After a successful ru...

By the late 1960s, successful crime-noir novelist  Gil Brewer was battling many personal demons. His bouts with alcoholism and severe dep...

Shepard Rifkin was a New Yorker born in 1918 whose writing career began in 1956 as the author of several western paperbacks. He shifted ge...

American author  Norman Daniels (real name Norman Danberg, 1905-1995) is best known for re-introducing pulp hero  Black Bat in 1939. Dan...

Oklahoma native  Jim Thompson (1906-1977) began authoring his brand of violent, hardboiled crime-fiction in the late 1940s. His 1952 nove...

Paperback Warrior Podcast Episode 34 explores the violent and sexy world of Men’s Adventure Magazines and the upstart publishing company  re...