Stephen Mertz cut his teeth writing hard-nosed action-adventure fiction set in Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan literary universe. In the 1...

When I was a kid, a film my father seemed to always have on was The Devil's Brigade . It was originally released in 1968, but played con...

Jack Higgins (real name Harry Patterson, 1929-2022) was just getting his feet wet as an author when Seven Pillars to Hell was published. I...

Richard Burton Matheson (1926-2013) was a multi-genre author best known for his horror and science-fiction works. In 1944, Matheson was 1...

Right off the bat, let me just say I review vintage paperbacks. I love paperbacks. Bestsellers, Lowsellers, Nosellers, it makes no differenc...

I can remember watching all of the old war films on TBS as a kid. My father had them on and I always camped out on the living floor to watch...

Lou Cameron (1924-2010) mastered so many genres of written entertainment from comic books to westerns to mysteries and so on. Drop Into H...

Independent American horror author Daniel Volpe created a critical hit in 2021 with his self-published novel, Left to You . The paperback c...

Alistair MacLean's   The Guns of Navarone was an eight-part WW2 serial that first appeared in the September 22, 1956 issue of Saturday...

It's hard to believe that just down the road from me, here in the Sunshine State of Florida, the Nazis invaded. It's a little known ...

Back in 2016, Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle teamed up for a book titled A Handful of Hell: Classic War and Adventure Stories by Robert F. Do...

Author Victor Rousseau Emanuel (1879-1960) was a British novelist that authored a number of short stories for the early magazines and pulps ...

In addition to being a catchy anthem of heavy metal and a hit movie, Where Eagles Dare is perhaps also Alistair MacLean's most belove...

Douglas Reeman (1924-2017) is a British author of nautical fiction, mostly about the Second World War . Before becoming a writer, Reeman ser...

It's Episode 90 and we're bringing you a two-fisted 1970s WW2 paperback series called Sgt. Hawk by Patrick Clay. Also, Tom hits the ...

In 1979, Belmont issued the eponymous Sgt. Hawk , the first of four published novels authored by Patrick Clay featuring a gruff, tough-as-le...

Norman Daniels found enormous success authoring various pulp characters like The Masked Detective , The Black Bat , Phantom Detective and...

Ralph Hammond Innes (1913-1998) is considered one of the founders of the men's action-adventure genre. As a pioneer, Innes began constr...

Australian born novelist James Edmond Macdonnell (1917-2002) utilized pseudonyms including Kerry Mitchell, Michael Owen and variations of hi...

Author Lawrence Cortesi (real name Lawrence Cerri) authored a number of war novels in the 1970s and 1980s. Based on his own military experie...