Comments on: BULLETS, BROADS, BLACKMAIL & BOMBS >> Biff Bang Pow http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bullets-broads-blackmail-bombs-biff-bang-pow/ reading material to get excited about Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:15:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brad Mengel http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bullets-broads-blackmail-bombs-biff-bang-pow/comment-page-1/#comment-58603 Brad Mengel Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:59:39 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=6118#comment-58603 Love the reviews of various tough guy series and thought you might like to know about my forthcoming book from Macfarland Press Serial Vigilantes of Paperback Fiction An Encyclopedia from Able Team to Z-Comm Brad Mengel ISBN 978-0-7864-4165-5 bibliographies, index softcover (7 x 10) 2009 Not Yet Published, Available Spring/Summer 2009 Description Rough justice has often been served in the pages of serial novels, notably beginning with Don Pendleton’s The Executioner in 1969. This is the first overview of the serial vigilante genre, which featured such hard-boiled protagonists as Nick Carter, Mark Stone, Jake Brand and Able Team among the 130 series that followed Pendleton’s novel. Serial vigilantes repeatedly take the law into their own hands, establishing and imposing their own moral standards, usually by force. The book examines the connections between the serial vigilante and the pulp hero that preceded him and how the serial vigilante has influenced a variety of tough guys, private eyes, spies and cops in different media. A complete bibliography for each series is featured. About the Author Brad Mengel works in Australia’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. He’s contributed critical analysis to Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer’s Wold Newton Universe and short fiction to Tales of the Shadowmen Vol. 3. Love the reviews of various tough guy series and thought you might like to know about my forthcoming book from Macfarland Press

Serial Vigilantes of Paperback Fiction
An Encyclopedia from Able Team to Z-Comm
Brad Mengel
ISBN 978-0-7864-4165-5
bibliographies, index
softcover (7 x 10) 2009

Not Yet Published, Available Spring/Summer 2009
Description
Rough justice has often been served in the pages of serial novels, notably beginning with Don Pendleton’s The Executioner in 1969. This is the first overview of the serial vigilante genre, which featured such hard-boiled protagonists as Nick Carter, Mark Stone, Jake Brand and Able Team among the 130 series that followed Pendleton’s novel. Serial vigilantes repeatedly take the law into their own hands, establishing and imposing their own moral standards, usually by force. The book examines the connections between the serial vigilante and the pulp hero that preceded him and how the serial vigilante has influenced a variety of tough guys, private eyes, spies and cops in different media. A complete bibliography for each series is featured.

About the Author
Brad Mengel works in Australia’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. He’s contributed critical analysis to Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer’s Wold Newton Universe and short fiction to Tales of the Shadowmen Vol. 3.

]]> By: Glen Davis http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bullets-broads-blackmail-bombs-biff-bang-pow/comment-page-1/#comment-57111 Glen Davis Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:11:12 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=6118#comment-57111 I have 3 of the Agent 13 books. They don't really improve. They also published some graphic novels based on the same script. TSR published a short series of double novels. Some featured Agent 13, but others featured Sebastian Cord, an aging, overweight sevret agent, and Fortune Inc., a treasure hunting group. All of it was pretty disposable. I have 3 of the Agent 13 books. They don’t really improve. They also published some graphic novels based on the same script.

TSR published a short series of double novels. Some featured Agent 13, but others featured Sebastian Cord, an aging, overweight sevret agent, and Fortune Inc., a treasure hunting group. All of it was pretty disposable.

]]> By: Bruce http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bullets-broads-blackmail-bombs-biff-bang-pow/comment-page-1/#comment-57109 Bruce Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:50:00 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=6118#comment-57109 Sadly no, he is just a hired gun of a spy. He is not part of any pulp bloodline Sadly no, he is just a hired gun of a spy. He is not part of any pulp bloodline

]]> By: Richard Heft http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bullets-broads-blackmail-bombs-biff-bang-pow/comment-page-1/#comment-57108 Richard Heft Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:17:54 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=6118#comment-57108 Was Steve Savage's father perhaps in the medical profession? Did Dad's skin have a healthy bronze tan? Was Steve Savage’s father perhaps in the medical profession? Did Dad’s skin have a healthy bronze tan?

]]> By: Larry E http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bullets-broads-blackmail-bombs-biff-bang-pow/comment-page-1/#comment-57106 Larry E Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:15:03 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=6118#comment-57106 The only other Steve Savage I've seen is The Andromeda Assignment, which was also pretty good. The only other Steve Savage I’ve seen is The Andromeda Assignment, which was also pretty good.

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