Roughneck
10 best books like Roughneck (Jim Thompson): Who Goes There?, Hollywood Nocturnes, Rampaging Fuckers of Everything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories (Modern Library), The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45, Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II, The Union Club Mysteries, Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson, Deep as the Marrow, Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week
| Author | John W. Campbell Jr. |
| ISBN | 0982332203 |
"Who Goes There?" The novella that formed the basis of "The Thing" is the John W. Campbell classic about an antarctic research camp that discovers and thaws the ancient, frozen body of a crash-landed alien. The creature revives with terrifying results, shape-shifting to assume the exact form of animal...
| Author | James Ellroy |
| ISBN | 0385333285 |
Set in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1959, Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).
Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos...
| Author | Mykle Hansen |
| ISBN | 1933929782 |
Rampaging Fuckers of Everything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere The Rampaging Fuckers of Everything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere is a collection of three short novels by a master of satire. Mykle Hansen's subversive tales capture the smugness of mainstream...
| Author | Hunter S. Thompson |
| ISBN | 0679602984 |
“No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.”
When I was attending college at the...
The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45
| Author | Stephen E. Ambrose |
| ISBN | 0743203399 |
The Barnes & Noble Review
Master WWII military historian Stephen Ambrose, bestselling author of such classic works as
Band of Brothers
and
D-Day
, hits the front lines again with this exciting and compelling look at the courageous young men who flew the massive B-24 bombers over Germany...
| Author | Robert Leckie |
| ISBN | 0140173897 |
Penguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries.
Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion of Okinawa, the closing battle of World War II. Leckie is a skilled military historian, mixing battle...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0449205258 |
The Union Club Mysteries is a collection of mystery short stories by American author Isaac Asimov featuring his fictional mystery solver Griswold. It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1983 and in paperback by the Fawcett Crest imprint of Ballantine Books in 1985.
The book collects...
| Author | Robert Polito |
| ISBN | 0679733523 |
Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic, casting light into the darker caverns of our collective psyche,...
| Author | F. Paul Wilson |
| ISBN | 0312862644 |
Crackpots and left-wingers have talked about it for years, but no one with any real authority has ever considered it. It would be political suicide. But President Thomas Winston has taken the boldest and most bizarre step in the War on Drugs that the United States has ever seen. Vowing to make narcotics...
Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week
| Author | Dave Barry |
| ISBN | 0878576525 |
Working up the corporate ladder is all well and good for most people, but you are not "most people." You are a highly motivated individual who wants to be on the fast track, and you cannot afford to fritter away valuable time working diligently and competently on the job. You need Dave Barry's surefire...
| Author | Stephen Baxter |
| ISBN | 0575076755 |
One thing that's difficult for me to remember when I read completed series in one go (like this one) is that these books are written slowly, over time, and sometimes even in response to readers or critics, causing the series to evolve as it's written. While I expect that Baxter had the story largely written...
The Battle of Mogadishu: First Hand Accounts From the Men of Task Force Ranger
| Author | Matthew Eversmann |
| ISBN | 0345459652 |
“No matter how skilled the writer of nonfiction, you are always getting the story secondhand. Here’s a chance to go right to the source. . . . These men were there.”
–MARK BOWDEN (from the Foreword)
It started as a mission to capture a Somali warlord. It turned into a disastrous...
| Author | Denis Leary |
| ISBN | 0385425813 |
An uproarious and lacerating meditation on life--and death--by celebrated comedian and actor Denis Leary.
Based on the writer-performer's hit Off-Broadway show, this rapid-fire monologue sends up society and its ills--disease, drugs, crime, junk culture, the recovery movement, pious...
| Author | David Goodis |
| ISBN | 0679734724 |
A dreamlike masterpiece of crime, honor, and perverse loyalty by the legendary author of Shoot the Piano Player.
Nat Harbin is a family man. His family happens to be a gang of burglars. Now Nat has met a woman so hypnotically seductive that he will leave his partners and his trade to possess her....
| Author | Elmore Leonard |
| ISBN | 0060082216 |
“No one is Leonard’s equal,” declares the Chicago Tribune—and anyone who might doubt it would only have to read Elmore Leonard’s riveting noir classic, Unknown Man #89, to become a true believer.
The twisty tale of a Detroit process server whose search for a missing stockholder...
| Author | Robert R. McCammon |
| ISBN | 0671743074 |
Flooded by memories, poisoned by the deadly fallout of Agent Orange, and desperate for work, Dan Lambert kills a man in a moment of blind fear and fury. It is an act he cannot excuse--a mistake that will change his life forever. Now Dan is on the run, heading south toward the Louisiana bayous. On his trail...
| Author | Charles Willeford |
| ISBN | 1842430017 |
”This period of my life should have been a happy one, and suppose it was, in a weird, unrealistic way. Wasn’t I making money hand over fist, as the saying goes? And isn’t the making of money the reason for existence? Isn’t it?”
Richard Hudson believes he is the best used car...
