Dopefiend50 reviews Donald Goines Holloway House Publishing Company, 2007 You never know! + Very Real + Not for the faint hearted. + EvEn bAcK IN Tha dAY. .. UrBaN LiT WAS hOtt             King Con: A Novel54 reviews Stephen J. Cannell Avon, 1998 This is an incredible story . . . + Hard to put down + Movie script good. + King Con is a winner + difficult to put away             The Plan15 reviews Stephen J. Cannell Avon, 1996 FAST-PACED EXCITEMENT IN THIS DEBUT + Politics Meets the Mob Making his debut as a novelist, Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Stephen Cannell brings all the fast-paced excitement of his hit elevision shows to this political thriller. If you enjoyed "The Rockford Files," "The A-Team," and "Hunter," The Plan is your cup of suspense. When TV ...             Death List3 reviews Donald Goines Holloway House, 1996 Glad I wasn't on that list + So sad, Kind of mad, feeling blue This story continues from Crime Partners when Billy and Jackie get knocked off. You'll see killings and bloodshed, but I was surprised to see the detail in which Goines describes how a family gets killed by a cat called the Creeper. You know he's successful in painting a picture and making you feel ...             Rain Storm (John Rain Thrillers)59 reviews Barry Eisler Signet, 2005 Eisler Review 4 + I am a fan. + An Ending and a New Beginning + Eisler Hits a Home Run             Cotton Comes to Harlem10 reviews Chester Himes Vintage, 1988 Read "rage" First + Good fun, though not the strongest in the series + More Hard Boiled than the movie, a ripping read! + As gritty as Ellroy and as clever as Parker + It's thems, the nasty 'licemens!             Astro City Vol. 3: Family Album7 reviews Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson, ... Wildstorm, 1999 This really is the first story-arc... + Jack-in-the-Box, Junkman, and a Lotta Flashy Astro City Comic Jive + Graphic SF Reader + ah, the wonder + One of the better series in the superhero-genre             Yesterday Will Make You Cry [a Novel]7 reviews Chester B. Himes W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1999 I Cry For Today!! This book was awesome, I cry not only for yesterday, but today!! You have to read it from the beginning and keep reminding yourself what the title says, it goes beyond the hip hop,urban street,hard core books it tells a beautiful story,it's life education in itself.U have to understand, this book ...             Adventures on Prime Time: The Television Programs of Stephen J. Cannell (Media and Society Series) Robert J. Thompson Praeger Publishers, 1990 Part of Praeger's Media and Society Series, this volume breaks new ground in television studies as the first booklength study of an individual television producer. Robert J. Thompson examines the work of Stephen J. Cannell, one of television's most prolific and successful producers. Thompson uses theories of film authorship revised for application to television texts and provides close analysis ...             The Mystery of the Green Ghost (Alfred Hitchcock & the Three Investigators 4)21 reviews Robert Arthur Random House Books for Young Readers, 1985 One of the greatest mystery books every written for children + Spooky Green Ghost Haunts His House! + Great Book A piercing scream at night in front of a spooky abandoned house, and the mystery starts! And it never lets up. A ghostly apparition, a creepy abandoned house. A hidden room. A string of mysterious pearls. A flight in the night. Dark tunnels. A mysterious ancient Chinese villain. Alfred ...             Black Girl Lost50 reviews Donald Goines Holloway House Publishing Company, 2006 The Father of it all + A tear dropper!! + BANGER!!!!! + BEST EVER! + A Must Read!             5 Shots7 reviews Jemir Johnson Creative Elamentz Studios, 2007 Slick, Gritty, Real + 5 Shots is Spine-Tingling + 5 shots - 5 Great Stories + Graphic Novel Novice             Black Gangster16 reviews Donald Goines Holloway House Publishing Company, 2007 Very strong piece + Desperation and lack of opportunity leads to greed + Another Donald Goines Classic!!! This guy seemed to be ahead of his time. This was the first book I've read from Goines, but it won't be the last. He had a way of making the story so vivid, so real; he had a way of just bringing it to life and putting you right in the middle of the action. His characters in this story(the main ...             Tales of Terror: 58 Short Stories Chosen by the Master of Suspense3 reviews Alfred Hitchcock Galahad, 2004 Recommend to all short stories fans + ah book review + Tales of Terror : 58 Short Stories Chosen by the Master of Suspense I adore short stories so I was delighted to discover The Tales of Terror. I have over 200 books with short stories, so I was not surprised to find 2 or 3 stories I've "met" before. But I enjoyed reading them again, and there still remained a long list of some 55 fresh ones. I immensely enjoyed ...             Rain Fall98 reviews Barry Eisler Signet, 2003 Discovering Rain Fall + Good Thriller + Awesome Assassin! + Move Over Double 07 + Great action thriller             The Death of Captain America, Vol. 113 reviews Ed Brubaker Marvel Comics, 2007 Captain America dies and the series just gets better + Way to spoil the ending on the cover! + Captivating Even Without Steve Rogers + the most important comic of the year + A comic death done right             Street Players13 reviews Donald Goines Holloway House, 2000 Street Players + In the 70's + street players + That cold black pearl             Astro City Vol. 4: The Tarnished Angel19 reviews Kurt Busiek Wildstorm, 2001 Another great Astro City story + The world of a world-weary super-guy + Great comic book + Astro City: Where Redemption and Love Are Tough as Steel and Just as Lasting + Astro City, A City Worth a Visit             Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco14 reviews Jeff Kraft, Aaron Leventhal Santa Monica Press, 2002 Great book for Hitchcock lovers! + Undiscovered Country I have been a fan of Hitchcock since I was little as one of my dad's favorite films is "The Birds" and he and I watched it many times while I was growing up. After I got older I discovered some of Hitch's other films and have loved his work for quite a while. I was able to visit San Francisco ...             The Tin Collectors: A Novel (Shane Scully Novels)23 reviews Stephen J. Cannell St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2002 Freshness guaranteed. + Not Your Average Desperate Cop + An Excellent Police Thriller! Stephen J. Cannell has got believable characters down pat...but they never get dull. The characters are hardly uni-dimensional. This book represents the stresses, complications, and corruption involved in the internal investigation of a police shooting but this one invloves one cop shooting ...