Author: R. Charlett Publisher: Horwitz Publications Published: 1965 Book No:. 3 Commando Raid is a slice of lurid Aussie pulp from Horwitz Publications, who were one of Australia’s leading producers of trashy thrill-a-minute stories. Sadly the likes of Horwitz no longer exist, and Australian genre fiction – although there is a surging groundswell, which I [...]
9Mar12
Commando Raid
Author: Andrez Bergen Publisher: Another Sky Press Published: 2012 I do not know anything about science fiction noir – beyond Riddley Scott’s Blade Runner. Of course I am talking about the original release which had the voice-over narration by Harrison Ford, not the plethora of director’s cuts and re-releases since 1982. I remember at the [...]
27Feb12
Dead Spy Running
Author: Jon Stock Published: 2010 Publisher: Blue Door Last year Tanner from the Double-O Section wrote a fantastic review of a book called Dead Spy Running, written by Jon Stock. In that review, Tanner suggested that spy novel fans could do a lot worse than seek the story out. As he is one of the [...]
26Feb12
Pokerface
Author: Peter Corris Publisher: Penguin Books Published: 1985 Based on scripts for the ABC TV drama Pokerface by Peter Corris and Bill Garner Recently I have looked at a few Cliff Hardy adventures; firstly the film, The Empty Beach, the book The Black Prince, and the radio drama, The Greenwich Apartments. All of these were [...]
7Feb12
Cut and Run
Author: Matt Hilton Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Published: 2010 Book No: 4 (in the Joe Hunter series) Last month I had an opportunity to do a little jetsetting. Not far mind you, just up to Canberra, to the National Gallery where there was an exhibition of Renaissance paintings (Raphael, Titian, Botticelli et al.). You see, [...]
5Feb12
The Greenwich Apartments
The Greenwich Apartments ABC Radio Drama is a little something I picked up in a second hand shop. The packaging was cracked and knocked about, but this almost seems appropriate for a Cliff Hardy story, based on the novel by Peter Corris. Firstly, let me explain that this is not an audio book – and [...]
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Tagged Australia, Cliff Hardy, Crime, Crime Fiction, Peter Corris
Tagged Australia, Cliff Hardy, Crime, Crime Fiction, Peter Corris
Author: Lester Ellis / Robert Drane Publisher: ABC Books Published: 2007 Fighting the Demons is a pretty sad book. Like many Australians, I remember when Lester Ellis became the IBF Lightweight Champion after defeating Korean, Hwan-Kil Yuh in 1985. It was televised in rural Australia, and was a major event. For Ellis, it was a [...]
19Jan12
The Black Prince
Author: Peter Corris Publisher: Bantam Books Published: 1998 Book No: 22 – Cliff Hardy series For those not familiar with the character of Cliff Hardy, private investigator, he is a creation of Peter Corris and first appeared in the novel The Dying Trade in 1980. Since then he has been releasing Cliff Hardy stories regularly [...]
6Jan12
Fight Card: Split Decision
Author: Eric Beetner Published: December 2010 Book No: 3 Recently I have written how much I enjoyed the first two books in the Fight Card series (Felony Fists by Paul Bishop and The Cutman by Mel Odom). However, in my reviews I suggested that a boxing story would always be predictable because they will always [...]
20Dec11
Let Sleeping Girls Lie
Author: James Mayo Publisher: Heinmann Published: 1965 Let Sleeping Girls Lie is the second book in the Charles Hood spy thriller series by James Mayo. Mayo is actually the pen name for Stephen Coulter, who allegedly (according to Donald McCormick in Who’s Who in Spy Fiction) provided much of the background information on the operation [...]
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Tagged Book Review, Charles Hood, James Mayo, Spy Fiction, Stephen Coulter
Tagged Book Review, Charles Hood, James Mayo, Spy Fiction, Stephen Coulter
