The Ice by John Kåre Raake (Pushkin Vertigo) Night Without End was one of my favourite Alistair MacLean novels, and it instilled in me at a young age a liking for...
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Over the course of his long career, James Hadley Chase (pseudonym of Rene Lodge Brabazon Raymond) wrote nearly ninety novels. They covered the spectrum of thriller...
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Popular Australian paperback publisher Horwitz usually focussed their war story output on salacious tales of military endeavours, often involving the violation of...
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The Soukour Deadline by Antony Trew (Fontana, 1977) Antony Trew is largely forgotten these days as a thriller writer, and if he is remembered it is mainly for his naval...
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Plantation/slaver pulp was a popular, but unpleasant, sub-genre championed by many publishers in the 1970s. In the United Kingdom, New English Library (NEL) was a...
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I recently read and enjoyed Andrew Garve’s crime novel Frame-Up, which inspired me to re-read his spy novel The Ascent Of D.13 (1969), the details of which had...
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