Wednesday, 5 April 2017

Somebody In Boots - Nelson Algren

THE AUTHOR OF MAN WITH A GOLDEN ARM


MAYFLOWER DELL 8110
1ST PRINTING 1964
LONDON, UK
ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN HARDBACK BY CONSTABLE & CO

Nelson Algren's SOMEBODY IN BOOTS is a great achievement in sustained realism. His hero, Cass McKay, in flight from the brutalities of a home he hated, wanders across America, jumping trains, trying to survive amidst the submerged tenth, finally, in the Chicago his author knows so well, fighting desperately for happiness with the girl he loved against all the savage chaos of an indifferent society.

Tuesday, 4 April 2017

The Warriors - Sol Yurick

THEY ARE NEW YORK'S TOUGHEST STREET GANG.
COOL IS THE NAME OF THEIR GAME.
FOR KEEPS IS HOW THEY PLAY IT.


DELL BOOKS 19074
2ND PRINTING MAY 1979
NEW YORK, USA
MOVIE TIE-IN

WERE THEY HEROES...OR PUNKS?

The Fourth of July dawned hot and ominous. The city was steaming-ready to go off like a string of firecrackers. The big rumble was on.

It would take Papa Arnold's Family far from their Brooklyn turf. Before the night was over they would have to fight their way home. They would seek out-and find-the city's dangers, its violence, its mysteries. They would rape and kill. But above all, they would stick together.

They were brothers. The Family was the only family they had.

THE WARRIORS

THE TERRIFYING MOVIE THRILLER YOU'LL NEVER FORGET!

Monday, 3 April 2017

The Dog Star - Donald Windham

A COMPELLING Story of LOVE and VIOLENCE


SIGNET BOOKS 871
1ST PRINTING APRIL 1951
NEW YORK, USA
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY DOUBLEDAY

Take Your Hands Off Me

"Shaking her as a dog shakes a tin can tied to its tail, he lurched toward the door. Only her utter annihilation would satisfy him....But she held onto his shirt and called his name....Cursing her again he swung his fist around and smashed it into her face."

Sunday, 2 April 2017

Fever Heat - Angus Vicker

A Wild Breed of Men
Who Live at the Pace That Kills


DELL FIRST EDITION 13
FIRST PRINTING 1954
NEW YORK, USA
COVER ART BY CARL BOBERTZ

FLESH AND IRON

This is the story of Ace Jones, a man whose flesh and soul have grown to the iron of the souped-up heaps that are his whole life.

There's a woman named Sandy, who sees in Ace the same fever that burned out her husband, and the same wild attraction that made her love him.

And there's Sandy's brother-in-law, who respects Ace almost as deeply as he hates him.

Theirs is the special world of the stock-car racers-filled with the stench of burning rubber, the tearing shriek of metal against metal. But the fire inside them will be felt by anyone who has ever known the corroding urge to get ahead of the man in front...

Saturday, 1 April 2017

It's Trad Dad - Macgregor Urquhart


DIGIT BOOKS (NO NUMBER)
FIRST PRINTING (NO DATE)
LONDON, UK
64 FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
MOVIE TIE-IN

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Wild Water - Ray Slattery

The waves peaked like WoW and the fights got fiercer on the second leg of Rick and Jonnie's surfari shindig


HORWITZ PUBLICATIONS 
SURFARI HIGHWAY SERIES #2
FIRST PRINTING 1966
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

Ever tried night surfing at Surfers with a curvey Italian bird?

Jonnie felt the swell beneath his board and looked beyond Maria to the beach, and beyond that. It was strange to see only the lights of the highway breaking the blackness, and the moving headlights of cars silent and ghost-like, flickering. "Let's try this one for size!" And together they cracked an enormous wave.

It was all darkness and dazzle, a black shine of water and the street lights tipping crazily in the distance. The sting of spray at his neck and shoulders and the uncanny life of the board beneath his feet were the only familiar sensations. He thought he heard Maria scream in the smashing thrill of the break as he swept into the beach.

He couldn't see her anywhere.

My God, where is she now, in the wild watery darkness of the night?

Wednesday, 29 March 2017

The Crucifiers - Carl Ruhen

She had broken their rules and knew she deserved to be punished


SCRIPTS BOOKS No. 6
FIRST PRINTING 1969
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

The Crucifiers were a gang of kids, wild kids who rode motorcycles and lived by their own laws.

Laws, not of the jungle, but of sadistic, perverse outlaws from society.

Their bikes were their lovers and their wives and their passports to power.

The girls who rode with them were possessions less exciting, less respected than their bikes. These girls, forced into promiscuity and a life of loveless sex, had only one function-to belong to the group and to obey its every rule.

When one girl disobeyed, she was nailed to a tree. But that was only the beginning of the horror. She was accused of treachery, of selling out to the cops, and that meant she would die, hard and nasty, when the gang found her again.

In the meantime, she found love with another haunted girl, but that love, like her whole life, was soon nailed to the wall...