Scott Phillips, Author . Ballantine $22 (304p) ISBN 978-0-345-44020-4
A tinted review in adult Forecasts indicates a book that's of exceptional importance to our readers, but hasn't received a starred or boxed review.THE WALKAWAYScott Phillips. Ballantine, $22 (304p) ISBN 0-345-44020-XPhillips turns the image...
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Scott Phillips, Author . Ballantine $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-345-46100-1
Western epic, black comedy and soft porn are cleverly spliced in this genre-bending offering from Phillips (The Walkaway
; The Ice Harvest
), which relates the experiences of Bill Ogden, sometime farmer, sometime saloon-owner, sometime photographer...
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Scott Phillips, Author Ballantine Books $19.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-345-44018-1
Everywhere you look, trashy people are doing trashy things in this darkly delicious debut comic thriller. Set in the middle of a Christmas Eve blizzard in 1979 Wichita, the novel opens with lawyer-turned-petty-mobster Charlie Arglist marking time...
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Scott Phillips. Counterpoint, $25 (224p) ISBN 978-1-58243-730-9
Set in post-WWII Kansas, Phillips's gritty noir manages to hook the reader with one of the more repellant leads in recent memory, Wayne Ogden, who appeared in the closing section of The Walkaway (2003). Having spent his wartime army service as a...
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Scott Phillips. Counterpoint, $25 (192p) ISBN 978-1-61902-307-9
Set in 1878, Phillips’s excellent sequel to Cottonwood (2004) continues the adventures of Bill Ogden, frontier photographer and libertine. Ogden has set up shop in Denver under the name Bill Sadlaw. His business isn’t exactly flourishing, but Ogden...
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Scott Phillips. Soho Crime, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-64129-493-5
For this raucous sequel set 38 years after the events of Hop Alley, Phillips sets his sights on the early days of the pornographic film industry. In 1916 Hollywood, septuagenarian photographer Bill Ogden runs a successful portrait studio with his...
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