So, Hard Case Crime has been putting out authors old and new. We have a place near my house called Bargain Books. They sell brand new books of all kinds at a deep discount. The Hard Case Crime books are going for about two bucks. I picked up a stack of them and, for some reason. I started here.
Plunder Of The Sun, the second of three Al Colby novels written by David Dodge might well be one of the best books I have read in quite a while. When main character Al Colby is hired to hold on to something for a mysterious man in South America it begins a journey filled with death, deception and Incan gold.
At 222 pages this thing reads like an out of control freight train. I originally bought this as a casual read. Just a book to keep in the van and read at my leisure when picking up kids from school, long drives and my wife is driving. You get the idea. Yeah, today I plowed through the last hundred pages at dizzying speed.
Author David Dodge writes realistic situations and characters and puts them in exotic locales doing, well some pretty weird stuff. When a story moves from the main character being nothing more than a hired courier to him fighting for his life while finding Incan gold believed to be lost.
Dodge is a stickler for details, but keeps it brief.
I discovered that this is the second of an Al Colby trio paperbacks. Yes, I have already located the other two books at reasonable prices and will be purchasing them in the near future. I can't wait to see what I discover next between the covers of a Hard Case Crime book.
I think I'll read Money Shot next by Christa Faust.
Who knows what I'll discover?
4 comments:
There was a pretty decent B Movie made from the book staring Glen Ford.
I checked out like six of these Hard Case novels from the library a year or so ago. I liked best Touch of Death by Charles Williams, with Vengeful Virgin by Gil Brewer in second place. They delivered the sort of tension and suspense I was looking for. Somebody Owes Me Money by Donald Westlake was well-written, but too light-hearted and jokey for me. Baby Moll, Girl with the Long Green Heart and Gutter and the Grave I found sort of routine and forgettable.
Let us know what you think of the rest of your Hard Case stack; I hope you enjoy them all as much as you did Plunder Of The Sun.
Yeah, I really liked this one. I can't sing Hard Cases praises loud enough. I've read quite a few of there books and only found a couple that were just mediocre at the worst.
I recommend you join the Hard case book club. They have $2 sales in june and $1 sales in december. I've picked up most of their titles this way.
Also I should say that my reading habits have picked up tremendously since I first started reading your blog and I've started reading and reviewing from my pulp collection for both of my blogs.
yay! the book reviews are back!
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