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Autor/a de Adventures of Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles

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After the war, most GIs settled down and enjoyed that freedom they'd fought so hard for. Jack Laramie enjoyed that freedom too, but instead of settling down, he drove a trailer across the west with his PI license, looking for something, not really looking for trouble. But, trouble
always managed to find him anyway.
In the seventh volume of the series, he tries to settle down, but gets mixed up in lovers' quarrels, nightclub strippers, blackmail, family secrets, loose women, and mean hoods.

Like all the volumes in the series, it's novellete size, easy to read, and
damn good reading. Even with different authors penning the different
volumes, Jack's character remains the same.
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DaveWilde | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Sep 22, 2017 |
What's a prostitute's worst nightmare? Is it a violent sadistic John or is it someone lost in great folds of flesh and half-eaten sandwiches? At what point does dementia prove to be unsafe? Did he remember to turn on the teakettle? What's to be done when your brain is short circuiting and she makes a family with someone else? How does the cosmic balance get reset? There's also a tale about nosy neighbors and the tight confines of apartment living. A collection of four gritty modern noir takes and the topping on this treat is a noir western about Cash Laramie. Even if you've never been inclined to reading westerns, you'll find this to be top notch writing.,… (més)
 
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DaveWilde | Sep 22, 2017 |
"Beat to A Pulp 3" is a 2013 collection of stories in a variety of styles and genres ranging from noir and neo-noir to hardboiled to western by a group of authors, many of whom have already made a name for themselves in the modern writing world. There stories here are incredibly varied and take you to gangsters in the Far East ("One Ashore In Singapore"by Andrew Nette) to the backwoods of the upper Midwest ("Doe in the Headlights" by Patti Abbott), where a woman named Doe has an unusual and constantly changing job description. "Gunpoint" by Fred Blosser takes the reader to a shootout in the wild west of, well, West Virginia. If you get tired of all that countryside, then "Fair Warning" by Hilary Davidson takes the reader back to the modern computer age and the dangers of the big city. Chris Holm's "Follow-Through" is all about remembering the lessons your father taught you and getting along with the neighbors.

The two gems of this collection are "There You Are" by Keith Rawson and "The Blow Jobs" by Josh Stallings. Both of these stories are similar in the sense that they focus on teenagers left to fend for themselves in this desperate world. Rawson's "There You Are" is about a kid who is dragged from state to state and, when they finally ended up in Arizona, the woman "finally got tired of the road and left [him] in a Buckeye motel room and [he] never saw her again." Left to his own devices, the kid gets a job in the motel, but ends up digging in the desert for places to plant corpses. It is a smoothly written story with a believable voice. Stallings' piece is reminiscent of his longer work, "All The Wild Children," in that it focuses on a pair of siblings left to run amock after dad got crushed to death by a poorly stacked forklift. They grew up in Glendale, California, "in the golden dawn of glitter rock" and thankfully dad hadn't lived to see them in their "skintight jeans and feather boas." His brother Caleb was the toughest dude around and perhaps handy with an icepick. Making their living selling plants and robbing tourists. Somehow Stallings managed to capture the teenage angst and the dead-end world and the brotherly love.

In an age where it is easier than ever to find a collection of short pieces, this group is a stand-out.
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DaveWilde | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Sep 22, 2017 |
The night of August 15, 1951 finds Jack Laramie on the road just, outside of Clyde, Texas. The private detective stops for gas and food. The waitress, Vicky Mae, does not appreciate the small joke Jack makes as she serves him a cup of coffee. His joke was also very much not appreciated by the man who clearly has an ongoing interest in Vicky Mae. Things escalate as Luke decides to go physical with Jack and it isn’t long before the cook has to come out of the back wielding a shotgun to restore order.

Despite what happens, Jack sticks around town. Eventually Laramie, grandson of Cash Laramie, goes to work for a local rancher by the name of Othmer. At first he is just helping the elderly rancher take care of the livestock and property, but things change when Othmer tells him of recent events involving his daughter, Nancy. What Othmer thinks is going on isn’t. As usual, Jack feels a duty to set things as right as he can. Some people are just bad and there are plenty of those types in Torn And Frayed: The Drifter Detective Series Number 7.

This seventh book in the series also includes a bonus short story featuring Cash Laramie, U.S. Marshal in “Missing.” Also seen in the book, Further Adventures of Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles, the short story tells of a time when Cash, known as the “Outlaw Marshal” went missing in 1888 and Gideon Miles had to go looking for him.

Once again, David Cranmer brings readers back into Jack Laramie. A man looking for his place after World War II in a world that is changing. There is a lot of his grandfather in him and one gets the sense that he is a man born to the wrong time. Plenty of mystery and action make this latest installment in the Drifter Detective series another mighty good read.

Torn And Frayed: The Drifter Detective Series Number 7
David Cranmer
http://www.davidcranmer.com
Beat To A Pulp
http://www.beattoapulp.com
ASIN: B01E9DSDQQ
eBook (paperback available)
79 Pages
$1.49

Material was purchased back in April to read and review by way of funds in my Amazon Associate account.

Kevin R. Tipple ©2016
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kevinrtipple | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Jul 5, 2016 |

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