I just checked Dead Man out of the library yesterday. Gores'
stuff was on the shelf right next to Ed Gorman. I'm looking
forward to reading it. I've been trying to track down a copy
of Interface, but haven't had any luck yet. It looks like I'm
going to have to order it used off Amazon. Does anyone know
why the first edition mass market paperback is so expensive?
It's being sold used on Amazon for $35 bucks. The first
edition hardcovers I've seen online range from $10-$15.
On Jan 9, 2008 12:54 PM, JIM DOHERTY <
jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Arguably, Gores, like most mystery writers who
produce
> a long-running and popular series, is best-known
for
> his series work. But Gores has also written a lot
of
> non-series work. And one theme that recurs in
his
> stand-alones is the hero wreaking
vengeance.
>
> Gores's 1969 debut novel, A TIME OF PREDATORS, was
not
> an entry in his DKA series, though the series
had
> already been established in short stories appearing
in
> EQMM, but such a stand-alone.
>
> Years before Brian Garfield's DEATH WISH, it tells
the
> story of a man driven to violence when three
thugs
> attack and gang-rape his wife, driving her to
suicide.
> Curt Halstead isn't a manhunter. He's a
college
> professor (his university is unnamed, but
it's
> obviously Stanford). But, once upon a time, he
was
> highly trained combat soldier, and he decides
to
> revive those skills and go after the punks he
regards
> as his wife's murderers.
>
> In addition to anticipating the better-known
DEATH
> WISH, Gores first book hit the scene at roughly
the
> same time Don Pendleton's WAR AGAINST THE MAFIA,
the
> first "Executioner" book, which also was built
around
> the notion of a soldier using military tactics
to
> fight criminals.
>
> Decades later, Gores revisited the theme of a
man
> avenging the death of his family with DEAD MAN.
This
> time, rather than being a college professor, the
hero,
> Eddie Dain, isn't a college professor.
Ostensibly
> he's a professional detective. But his specialty
is
> computer investigations, not mixing it up
toe-to-toe
> with bad guys on the street. When he
starts
> investigating the wrong people, he becomes a
target,
> when his wife and child are killed in an attempt
on
> his life, he goes into hiding, and, like
Halsted,
> trains himself to become a killing
machine.
>
> JIM DOHERTY
>
>
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