Kent wrote:
"Getting back to that box, I found two books by authors on
Bill's list: Doug Swanson's Dreamboat (Texas) and The Desert
Look by Bernard Schopen
(Reno, Nevada)."
Although I don't recall many specifics about them, I do
remember really liking the two books I read by Schopen. I'm a
sucker for dark, depressed PIs. Of course, I mentioned that
these books were very dark to someone else who had read him
and she replied that she had thought it was exaggerated for
humor.
"In the same box was a Countryman Press reprint of Russell
James' Payback, which I did rescue after reading that it is
out-of-print and will be reissued by Point Blank."
Good move -- good book, as are all of his. This one, about a
hard boy who comes home to find out what happened to his
brother, seems to be his homage to Get Carter, down to naming
his protagonist Floyd Carter. Although the starting point may
be similar, the book is its own from there on.
Mark
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