Hard Case Crime Novels: The Dead Man's Brother (Series #52) (Paperback)

from DaveWilde

"Dead Man's Brother" was an unfinished mansuscript, perhaps written in 1971, and never published until after Zelazny's passing. Although it has a few hardboiled elements (particularly in the first chapter), the book is primarily a spy thriller that takes the protagonist Ovid through three contine...

from TadAD

Being a bit of a Zelazny fan, I was pretty intrigued by the idea of this book. Zelazny is known for his science fiction and fantasy but here he ventures into the realm of pulp crime fiction. According to the Afterword, this was an unpublished manuscript found lying around an office. Well, there m...

from Jannes

Honestly, I'm not sure about this one. I picked it up on a whim; an unpublished Zelazny book - and a spy thriller to boot! - it seemed to good to pass up, for sheer uniqueness if nothing else. The plot follows the protagonist, Ovid Wiley - an ex art thief turned gallery owner - as he is strong-am...

from Jannes

Honestly, I'm not sure about this one. I picked it up on a whim; an unpublished Zelazny book - and a spy thriller to boot! - it seemed to good to pass up, for sheer uniqueness if nothing else. The plot follows the protagonist, Ovid Wiley - an ex art thief turned gallery owner - as he is strong-am...

from wjohnston

A fun, noirish pulp from a science fiction master, seeing publication for the first time as part of the "Hard Case Crime" series of neo-pulps (complete with suggestive cover art). Feels like vintage Zelazny - in fact, I found echoes of "Nine Princes in Amber" throughout. I always love his first p...