Ron Clinton writes:
> Has anyone read THE LAST PIN, a collection of
hardboiled stories by Howard
> Wandrei, best known for his sci-fi/fantasy material,
and published in
> hardcover by Fedogan & Bremer a couple years
ago? Any opinions...is it
> worth picking up?
I read it, and I enjoyed it, but I'm a little ashamed of
having enjoyed it. The writing is vigorous, the stories
well-paced, the plots generally preposterous in their
details. Most of them are the kind of stories that were
called "spicy" back in pulp days -- lots of nudity, with the
fact of the nudity but not the nudes themselves closely, even
lecherously, described. Gunfights, car chases, nude girls,
unmixedly evil villains, heroic rescues, more nudes -- and
not a cell phone in sight. I say, check it out.
-- Fr. John Woolley
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