Paul's Scribblings
Not so much a review as just to let you know I've started digging into Barry Reese's Lazarus Gray series. I'm enjoying the heck out of it. If you want classic pulp adventure with that New Pulp feel, you need to start on this series.
I've been listening to audiobooks but the first three volumes are also available as a super-inexpensive omnibus ebook. Just $1!
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| Bulldog Drummond: Disaster Zones by I.A. Watson |
I.A. Watson has done a great job bringing Bulldog Drummond into the 21st century. This time around we get three novellas, where Bulldog battles neo-Nazis, faces off against an African warlord, and fights his way through baddies and a hurricane in the Caribbean. The action never lets up. Pure pulp action! I look forward to more new tales of Bulldog Drummond!
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| All-American Sports Stories, Volume 2 |
Derrick Ferguson's "Brooklyn Beatdown" leads off this anthology of three sports novellas. A story of boxing, and crime. The tale is a perfect mix of bare-knuckle brawling and lively characters.
The second tale is a baseball story. I wasn't very vested in that one, sorry to say. Not because of the baseball subject matter. The story didn't have enough action for me. It felt more like reading a newspaper's season-long-run sports story than a fiction tale.
Ron Fortier closes out the volume with a poignant football tale about a returning disabled Vietnam veteran who must figure out where his life will lead.
"Brooklyn Beatdown" was resurrected from a stand-alone edition (under the FIGHT CARD series) and is worth the price of admission. Highly recommended for that story alone.
