The Snake
8 best books like The Snake (Mickey Spillane): What a Carve Up!, Middle England, Kill Your Friends, Sad Cypress, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, The House Without a Key
| Author | Jonathan Coe |
| ISBN | 0140294562 |
One of the true joys in life, in my opinion, is the right to differ. Few things can be compared to the feeling you get when you read a book (or see a movie) which everyone has been raving about and realize that it's utter crap. I really wanted that to be the case with What A Carve Up, although, having read Coe in...
| Author | Jonathan Coe |
| ISBN | 0241309468 |
Set in the Midlands and London over the last eight years, Jonathan Coe follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense change and disruption in Britain. There are the early married years of Sophie and Ian who disagree about the future of Britain and, possibly, the future of their...
It's not dog-eat-dog around here...it's dog-gang-rapes-dog-then-tortures-him-for-five-days-before-burying-him-alive-and-taking-out-every-motherfucker-the-dog-has-ever-known.
Meet Steven Stelfox.
London 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0007120710 |
Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor...
| Author | William Gibson |
| ISBN | 0441013678 |
The coolest thing about reading Gibson is jacking in to his urbane and hip way of descriptive narration.
William Gibson, as prophet of cyber punk and also as the herald of his later Blue Ant works, returns to The Sprawl for a continuation of the setting he began in his masterwork, Neuromancer.
But...
| Author | William Gibson |
| ISBN | 0553281747 |
William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world - lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting - where multinational corporations...
| Author | William Gibson |
| ISBN | 0140157727 |
William Gibson begins his Bridge trilogy with this 1993 publication that was nominated for both the Hugo and the Locus awards.
In the air of great protagonist names won hands down by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 cyberpunkapalooza Snow Crash with Hiro Protagonist, Gibson introduces us to Chevette...
| Author | Earl Derr Biggers |
| ISBN | 0445402199 |
Charlie Chan is back!
Earl Derr Biggers' crackling six-volume series featuring the clever, chubby Chinese Detective of the Honolulu Police Department, is coming back into print.
Biggers brings Honolulu to life with his deft descriptions of the landscape and its hybrid ethnic...
