Devotees of medical adventures will enjoy this exciting and well-written account of the 10 years the author spent as a flight nurse for CALSTAR (California Shock/Trauma Air Rescue), a helicopter ambulance service based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Despite the inevitable dated characters and attitudes (women reduced to minor roles and men generally oozing testosterone), the themes of these 12 vintage stories mostly arise from the pure heart of speculative SF. Slice-of-life cop story "Nightb
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Neal Barrett, Jr., Author Subterranean $40 (200p) ISBN 978-1-931081-23-8
The lowlifes of Piggs Bar and Chinese Restaurant (Mexican Wells, Tex.) in this crime novel from veteran Barrett (The Hereafter Gang) make the regulars of the bar in The Iceman Cometh
look classy by comparison. At least O'Neill's characters...
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Neal Barrett, Jr., Author McGraw-Hill/Contemporary $15.95 (275p) ISBN 978-0-86553-184-0
Another in the new Isaac Asimov Presents series (see above), this provocative novel is set in a world that nuclear war has almost decimated of cities, technology and large animals. To replace farm livestock, the country's sole source of meat is...
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Neal Barrett, Jr., Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-07766-2
Barrett's ( The Hereafter Gang ) mystery about a lost weekend hits the ground running and never lets up. Russell Murray, alcoholic editor of a Chicago literary magazine, agrees to carry a manuscript in a briefcase from Chicago to Dallas and back....
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Neal Barrett, Jr., Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-312-10963-9
Problems raised by a ``dead electric dog'' open Barrett's second mystery, after Pink Vodka Blues . Max Coomer, the wealthiest man in Pharoah, Tex., finds his black Lab murdered in the back yard. With its jaw wired and a Walkman tied around its neck,
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Neal Barrett, Jr., Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $21.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-57566-058-5
Imagine Robert Ludlum on laughing gas and you'll have the spirit of Wiley Moss's third adventure (after Pink Vodka Blues and Dead Dog Blues). Wiley's father, who abandoned him 18 years ago, dies in Texas. Smelling a rat and ignoring threats from the
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Neal Barrett, Jr., Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $21.95 (277p) ISBN 978-1-57566-173-5
Among the growing pack of comic crime writers, Barrett just may be the alpha male. Wiley Moss, that accomplished illustrator of insects seen last in Skinny Annie Blues, is kidnapped and thrust into a westbound bus by a one-eyed Indian named Bobby...
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Neal Barrett, Jr., Author, Jr. Barrett, Author Golden Gryphon $25.95 (280p) ISBN 978-1-930846-28-9
Set in a post-apocalyptic downsized America, a high-tech land of fabulous wealth as well as dirt-poverty and primitive survivalism, this wacky, occasionally profound novel from Barrett (The Hereafter Gang
) rings oddly true in our era of Enron and...
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