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This was a random library find, I did not realize that it was the second book in a trilogy. I was intrigued by the book description on the back (along with it being published by Hardcase Crime), throw in the Tarantino blurb calling Faust, “a Veronica in a world full of Betties“. Sold! Angel is living incognito in Arizona when her past catches up to her & she hits the road with two professional fighters: one is a a cautionary tale of the (CONT)

Hey Littens ! Please send finding energy! I‘ve lost a library book in my house! 😱😕📚👻

Let me just state this up-front. Ed Brubaker is the absolute best crime fiction writer in comics today.
This story centers on an elderly writer in 1930's New York, whose pulp stories are true events from his secret past as an outlaw in the Wild West. He must now use his gritty experiences to help fight an encroaching darkness in the present. Short, but like an arrow hitting a target dead on, this is certainly worth the ride.

For Lancashire, it's a sweltering day & I'm feeling a sense of desert heat reading this pulp adventure novella about Francis Xavier Gordon, known as El Borak "The Swift", amongst the cities, villages and encampments of the Near & Middle East.
The milieu is the Great Game played by the Western colonial powers, & while Gordon is a maverick with little time for bureaucracy, his loyalties lie with them.
There's a definite whiff of Yellow Peril ⬇️

These stories are a stone cold blast!

Eventually, morning came instead of bad guys. That was the thing about mornings. No matter how fucked up your life got, how deep and black your despair, how sure you were that you just couldn‘t take another second of this shit, morning just kept on coming. Over and over. Morning didn‘t give a damn about your little drama.

79/150 What a wonderfully dark and twisted murder mystery. PI John Blake discovers that his high school sweetheart has been murdered, and he delved into the world of strippers and gangsters to find her killer. There are plenty of red herrings that kept me guessing until the surprise reveal. I'm going on to read the sequel, Songs of Innocence. 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1/2
4/15 for #Rushathon @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES @Andrew65

He was sweating fiercely and his eyes were darting around the room. I was watching them and his hands. That was my mistake.

I know it's more than one sentence, but it goes well together.

@Eggs #wonderouswednesday

The headline made me sit down when I read it, that and the picture next to it and the article that spilled out over two columns underneath.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it (some I‘ve had so long I don‘t even remember why!) Feel free to join in!

#ABookADay2023