Paperback Warrior
Monday, October 10, 2022

To the Stars #01 - Homeworld

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Science-fiction author Harry Harrison gained fans with his character Stainless Steel Rat in 1957. The character appeared in 12 total books...
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Friday, October 7, 2022

The Girl in 304

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Harold R. Daniels (1919-1987) enjoyed a successful career as a technical writer and specialist in the metal industry. For 14 years he was th...
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Pigeon Blood

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George Sims (1902-1966) wrote screenplays as Peter Ruric and pulp fiction as Paul Cain. Seven of his 1930s works from Black Mask Magazine w...
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Monday, October 3, 2022

Paperback Warrior Episode 101 - Steve Frazee

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It's a new era as Paperback Warrior storms into the next 100 episodes. #101 features a look at western and action-adventure author Steve...
Friday, September 30, 2022

Skin

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Before his death in 2006, Mickey Spillane told his wife to give all of his unfinished manuscripts to Max Allan Collins with the assurance,...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2022

The Cop on the Corner

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Before becoming a mainstay of grim, noir fiction in the paperback original era, David Goodis (1917-1967) was a prolific writer of short sto...
Monday, September 26, 2022

Fairy Tale

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Another Stephen King 600 pager has arrived, 20 years and 27 books after he suggested his retirement to the Los Angeles Times in 2002. It...
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Thursday, September 22, 2022

"The Importance of Being Ernie"

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Carroll John Daly (1889-1958) is rightfully credited with inventing hardboiled crime fiction in the pulp magazines with his characters Thr...
Friday, September 16, 2022

The Guns of Navarone

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Alistair MacLean's   The Guns of Navarone was an eight-part WW2 serial that first appeared in the September 22, 1956 issue of Saturday...
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Thursday, September 15, 2022

Operation Destruct

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Christopher Robin Nicole (born: 1930), author of over 200 books, was born in Guyana and settled in the Channel Islands nestled between Engla...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Paperback Warrior Primer - Howard Hunt

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There is already a lot that can be said about Howard Hunt . He was both a WW2 veteran, a spy , a Hollywood screenwriter, war correspondent,...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Night Hunter #01 - Night Hunter

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Holdstock (1948-2009) was a British author that specialized in science-fiction , horror , and fantasy genres...
Monday, September 12, 2022

Layover in Dubai

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Former Baltimore Sun reporter Dan Fesperman was a foreign correspondent who travelled the world covering international events. He’s been rac...
Friday, September 9, 2022

Hawkwood

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Andrew P. O'Rourke (1933-2013) was a judge and County Executive of Westchester Country, New York, He was also the Republican candidate f...
Thursday, September 8, 2022

Joe Broderick's Woman

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In the 1970s, Hollywood became fascinated with the large transport truck, aka “big rig”, “18-wheeler”, “tractor-trailer” or simply “Mack”. F...
Wednesday, September 7, 2022

The Hunting Shack

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James Dickey's 1970 outdoor-survival novel Deliverance was adapted into a film by the same name in 1972. Both were widely successful an...
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Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Killinger #01 - Killinger (aka The Turquoise-Yellow Case)

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I read something online the other day that said Hell will be attempting to insert a USB into your computer for eternity. The catch is that n...
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Monday, September 5, 2022

Snapshot, 1988

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I can remember a time, long ago, when you had to mention that author Joe Hill was Stephen King's son. No one knew who the Hell Joe Hill...
Friday, September 2, 2022

Blood Alley

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In 1955, Blood Alley was simultaneously published as a novel and released as a film by Warner Brothers. The premise is that a U.S. Merchant...
Thursday, September 1, 2022

Predator - Concrete Jungle

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Nathan Archer was a pseudonym employed by science fiction and fantasy author Lawrence Watt-Evans for the publication of a 1995 media-tie in ...
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