The Fighter

Author	Harry Crews
ISBN	0060915749

Caveat: I'm a huge Harry Crews fan. I've been hooked on him since I read "Celebration" when it was released, then went backwards trying to find every one of his weird little feasts of testosterone and pain. The closest comparison I've ever been able to make has been a cross between John Irving's canon of...

Author	Jerome R. Corsi
ISBN	1439190410

I liked the story a lot, and actually learned quite a bit about the Shroud of Turin. If you like Dan Brown's novels (Da Vinci Code), you will probably like this one too. They are the same genre and remind me of each other.

The reason I feel this book deserves 2 stars is because Mr. Corsi clearly skipped...

Author	Thom Jones
ISBN	0571201903

Dilapidated fight arenas, Christmas in a psychiatric ward, chaotic emergency rooms - this is the world of Thom Jones, whose stories have a passion and depth which put them in a league of their own.

Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine, a collection of his stories, is a mixture of despair and exhilaration,...

Author	Robin Adair
ISBN	1921518251

1828: Sydney is a city built on the backs of exiled convicts. But in a colony of criminals, how do you narrow down the list of suspects when a murderer is on the rampage?
Nicodemus Dunne was a London policeman. After being deported on trumped up charges of assault, he now makes his living in New South...

Author	Eli Gottlieb
ISBN	0061284645

His name was Rob Castor. Quite possibly, you've heard of him. He became a minor cult celebrity in his early twenties for writing a book of darkly pitch-perfect stories set in a stupid upstate New York town. About a dozen years later, he murdered his writer-girlfriend and committed suicide. . . .

The...

Author	Joey Goebel
ISBN	1931561842

This was my first read by *Joey Goebel*, a young novelist from Kentucky.....
When I started this slim kooky novel, I thought Goebel was from Germany.... where he’s found his largest audience. Nope- all American.

I was hoping to find a new ‘comic-tragic’ - ( mostly funny) - author...

Author	Robert Payne
ISBN	0815410867

This is a comprehensive account of the eight religious wars between the Christian West and the Muslim East that dominated the Middle Ages. Calling themselves "pilgrims of Christ," thousands of Europeans from all stations in life undertook the harsh and bloody quest to reclaim Jerusalem, the Church...

Author	Alison Bruce
ISBN	1472112261

In a single night, Kyle Davidson's life is derailed. His relationship is over, he is denied access to his young son and everything important to him is at risk. His thoughts stumble between fear and revenge. Kyle Davidson has a choice to make. Meanwhile, after the tragic end to a previous case, DC Gary Goodhew...

Author	Sax Rohmer
ISBN	1603121382

The review from afar – No. 16

Re-revised forward to these overseas reviews:
Since emulating a yo-yo, I continue to rely on the old-style Kindle 3G for any non-technical reading. I tip my hat to the fine folks at Project Gutenberg: virtually every title I have or will be reading in the...

Author	Denis Johnson
ISBN	0413772322

Leonard English, a sad and intense young man recovering from a suicide attempt, comes to Provincetown on Cape Cod to take a job as a disc jockey-cum-private detective. Provincetown is a last outpost of civilization, an end of the earth, a resort town emptied by autumn, where many of those who wear skirts...

Author	Caio Fernando Abreu
ISBN	8571641293

Onde Andará Dulce Veiga?: Um Romance B- Caio Fernando Abreu | Cia. das Letras, 1990, 250 pgs | NITROLEITURAS | Lido de 25.10.16 a 26.10.16
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SINOPSE

Essa obra é a segunda incursão do autor pelo gênero romance. Tendo como coadjuvantes os universos da redação...

Author

Patrick McGrath

Charlie Weir is a man who tackles other people's demons for a living. He has seen every kind of trauma during his years as a psychiatrist in New York.Yet he hasn't found a way of resolving his own conflicts, particularly the fatal mistake that caused his wife and daughter to leave him condemning him to corrosive...

Author	John Whitman
ISBN	0060842296

A brilliant madman dedicated to anarchy has dark plans for the U.S. In twenty-four hours, America will be plunged into chaos—the result of an unthinkable assassination to be carried out flawlessly—and the government has no inkling of the catastrophe that is about to occur.

Only one man...

Author	Katie Kitamura
ISBN	1439107521

Cal and his trainer, Riley, are on their way to Mexico for a make-or-break rematch with legendary fighter Rivera. Four years ago, Cal became the only mixed martial arts fighter to take Rivera the distance -- but the fight nearly ended him. Only Riley, who has been at his side for the last ten years, knows...

Author	Stuart M. Kaminsky
ISBN	0765316013

Four years ago, Lew Fonesca’s wife Catherine was struck and killed in a hit-and-run. Grief-stricken, he fled Chicago and wound up in Sarasota, Florida where he’s made a living as a process server. Four years on, he's still savoring his depression like fine wine, and his therapist--and sparring...

Author	Marc Cerasini
ISBN	0060842288

Area 51: America's top-secret advanced military testing ground, hidden away in the Nevada desert, where the awesome weapons of tomorrow are being developed. But a mole inside the impregnable facility has been leaking highly advanced killing technology to America's worst enemies . . . who intend...

Author	J.G. Farrell
ISBN	1590174763

The Empire Trilogy - consisting of the Lost Booker Prize-winning Troubles, the Booker Prize-winning The Siege of Krishnapur and The Singapore Grip - is Farrell's re-examination of the legacy, and limits, of British imperial rule. The three volumes, connected by theme rather than character, and...

Author	Charlie Smith
ISBN	0061859451

From Charlie Smith (Cheap Ticket to Heaven, Chimney Rock, Shine Hawk), author of three New York Times Notable Books and a literary stylist whose “writing can make the mountains ring" (New York Times Book Review), comes his first novel in more than a decade, Three Delays, which follows the troubled...

Author	Bob Drogin
ISBN	1400065836

Curveball answers the crucial question of the Iraq war: How and why was America’s intelligence so catastrophically wrong? In this dramatic and explosive book, award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Bob Drogin delivers a narrative that takes us to Europe, the Middle East, and deep inside the...

Author	Barry Gifford
ISBN	1583229108

On the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Barry Gifford's international bestseller, Wild at Heart, as well as the anniversary of the Palme d'Or-winning film adaptation by director David Lynch, Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels presents all of the novels and novellas that comprise...

Author	Joe Layden
ISBN	0312353308

Meticulously researched, wonderfully written; the untold story of a legendary fight and the two warriors who would never be the same again
 
It is considered by many to be the biggest upset in the history of boxing: James "Buster" Douglas knocked out then-undefeated Heavyweight...

Author

Shaun Assael

*Review originally published in the New York Journal Of Books: http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-...

Charles “Sonny” Liston, former heavyweight champion turned drug dealer, was found dead in his Las Vegas home on January 5, 1971. It was the ending of a life that had been steadily...