Tokyo, ferne Gegenwart: Zwischen Wirklichkeit und virtueller Realität. Datendiebstahl ist an der Tagesordnung: Einem genialen greisen Wissenschaftler ist es gelungen, bei einer Gruppe professioneller Datenfälscher eine Gehirnwäsche durchzuführen. Er entnimmt ihnen Informationen, die er in Gehirne von unwissenden Versuchspersonen einspeist. Der 35-jährige Held und Ich-Erzähler ist der Einzige, der die Prozedur überlebt. Fortan versucht er, die dunklen Machenschaften des Professors mit allen Mitteln zu durchkreuzen...
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Huge apologies to anybody expecting me to be witty and engaging on the latest episode of the Do Some Damage podcast. You see, while I was my sorta my typically half-assed prepared to talk about a couple of films, I found myself engaged in what I assumed was a private conversation with Steve Weddle about Charles Willeford. Steve's reading Willeford's most excellent first book of memoirs, I Was Looking For a Street (as should fucking you - it's so good!) and we talked about ol' Chuck and his work and habits for a good ten minutes. Ten minutes that I was enjoying perfectly well when it was between pals, but dear reader, I apologize for subjecting you to my quarter-assed Willefordian musings. For the record the Robert Mitchum movie I am referring to is John Farrow's 1950 offering Where Danger Lives. If you don't care to listen to the whole ten minutes I will spare you some grief... Wild Wives is the book you'd want to compare to Where Danger Lives... ...and I assert that Willeford probably modeled Freddy in Miami Blues on (or at least his actions were inspired by) Robert Stack in Airplane! Now check out Alec Baldwin as Freddy in George Armitage's 1990 adaptation of Willeford's Miami Blues I can only kinda sort blame Steve for including the ramble because weirdly it ties into the two movies I had already picked out to discuss as they are both oddball Florida crime stories... The first is Kelly Reichardt's feature debut River of Grass about a couple of especially low-rent lovers on the run (Lisa Donaldson and Larry Fessenden) who manage neither to love nor run after they are bound by murder. The second is Victor Nunez's Coastlines. For every crime films of the seventies nut out there who moans that they don't make 'em like that anymore, might I insist you check this one out. It's a crime melodrama starring Timothy Olyphant, Josh Brolin, Sarah Wynter, William Forsythe, Josh Lucas and Scott Wilson and if that cast ain't enough to rouse your curiosity why the hell are you even reading this? I've written more than once about Coastlines on this here blog and was super excited to find it (and River of Grass) available on Hulu. Hurry though, it looks like Coastlines is leaving soon! River of Grass is also available now on Prime. If you dig Coastlines check out Nunez's Ulee's Gold - another slow-burn thriller with a good central performance by Peter Fonda and shit, Reichardt is pretty much aces every time out, but crime-wise check out Night Moves and you could sorta tie Wendy & Lucy into that knot and her Meek's Cutoff is like a feature length western episode of the Twilight Zone. If you're interested in more Willeford talk check out this collaborative Picture Books piece betwixt me and Johnny Shaw on the films based on Willford material (Monte Hellman's Cockfighter, George Armitage's Miami Blues and Robson Devor's The Woman Chaser). If you like what you read there be sure to check out Johnny's latest book The Upper Hand (and all his other shit, seriously). And if you'd like to see me and Shaw finally become a single character might I suggest Mike McCreary's Genuinely Dangerous, a book I've had for three years, but only just read and found Jedidiah Shaw to be a character worth his own series. Mike's books are literary rocket fuel - not good for much but blasting off if that's what you feel like doing. If you're looking for more Florida crime stuff's Matt Coleman at Book Riot has some solid recommendations including Miami Blues, Vicky Hendrick's Miami Purity, Ace Atkins' White Shadow, Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch, Steph Post's Walk in the Fire and many more in honor of Alex Segura's fifth(?) Pete Fernandez title Miami Midnight. And shit, if you wanna stick to the brilliance of Armitage's Miami Blues check out Travis Woods' usual bullshit at Bright Wall Dark Room on the matter. And if the mention of Reichardt's Night Moves put you in mind of Arthur Penn's awesome Floridian film of the same name with Gene Hackman - check the fuck out Matthew Asprey Gear's new book on the film Moseby Confidential: Arthur Penn's Night Moves and the Rise of Neo Noir. Crackin.
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Looking forward to seeing everybody at Bouchercon. I'm not registered for shit, but I know where the bar is. In fact if you can stagger around the corner on Thursday night, come join me a N@B shindig Eryk Pruitt is throwing and watch me fight Les Edgerton, Eric Beetner, Christa Faust, Thomas Pluck, Eric Beetner, Joe Clifford, Jen Conley, Ed Kurtz, Tom Pitts and Steve Lauden for any spot in the lineup that isn't after Johnny Shaw. Nobody's gonna want that mic - just leave it on the floor and back away. He's one of the best live readers I've never read with, but it appears my streak is ending. If you've got a copy of Noir at the Bar vol. 2 you bring to get signed - Les and I'll deface your shit gladly and I'm hoping to see St. Louis to Raleigh transplant and N@B alum Shaw Coney at the event too (check your book for the story Dead By Dawn - and Les's story A Streetcar Not Named Desire - which is probably the reason his novel The Genuine Imitation Plastic Kidnapping seemed familiar). I've got good news for those of you who can't get to Bouchercon, but are dying to hear me blather. Monday morning (10am EST) I'll be on this here The Crime Scene radio show with senor Pruitt and David Terreniore. We'll be talking southern crime stuffs in order to prepare all the tenderfoots coming to B'con the week after. Want some more good news? Branfuckingnew motherfucking Scott Wolven motherfuckers! Check out his story Playboy in Playboy (which gives me a swell idea about where to pitch my story Black Tail!) or hey you can read it online at the website. Now it's a weekend. You're welcome. Oh and check this the hell out - James Patterson was asked to name some of his favorite books and... there're some pretty damn good books on his list - notably The Ice Harvest by Scott Phillips, Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg, The Wanderers by Richard Price and Night Dogs by Kent Anderson. It's been a long wait for another from Anderson, but it loooooks like the wait could be over soon. Dennis McMillan (who says Patterson used to buy Rick DeMarinis from him too!) mentioned Green Sun would be coming next year (wait... did he say next year or was that wishful hearing on my part?) Anywho - if you can't wait, Gonzalo Baeza tracked down this link to the first chapter online. Thanks, man.
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Looking forward to seeing everybody at Bouchercon. I'm not registered for shit, but I know where the bar is. In fact if you can stagger around the corner on Thursday night, come join me a N@B shindig Eryk Pruitt is throwing and watch me fight Les Edgerton, Eric Beetner, Christa Faust, Thomas Pluck, Eric Beetner, Joe Clifford, Jen Conley, Ed Kurtz, Tom Pitts and Steve Lauden for any spot in the lineup that isn't after Johnny Shaw. Nobody's gonna want that mic - just leave it on the floor and back away. He's one of the best live readers I've never read with, but it appears my streak is ending. If you've got a copy of Noir at the Bar vol. 2 you bring to get signed - Les and I'll deface your shit gladly and I'm hoping to see St. Louis to Raleigh transplant and N@B alum Shaw Coney at the event too (check your book for the story Dead By Dawn - and Les's story A Streetcar Not Named Desire - which is probably the reason his novel The Genuine Imitation Plastic Kidnapping seemed familiar). I've got good news for those of you who can't get to Bouchercon, but are dying to hear me blather. Monday morning (10am EST) I'll be on this here The Crime Scene radio show with senor Pruitt and David Terreniore. We'll be talking southern crime stuffs in order to prepare all the tenderfoots coming to B'con the week after. Want some more good news? Branfuckingnew motherfucking Scott Wolven motherfuckers! Check out his story Playboy in Playboy (which gives me a swell idea about where to pitch my story Black Tail!) or hey you can read it online at the website. Now it's a weekend. You're welcome. Oh and check this the hell out - James Patterson was asked to name some of his favorite books and... there're some pretty damn good books on his list - notably The Ice Harvest by Scott Phillips, Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg, The Wanderers by Richard Price and Night Dogs by Kent Anderson. It's been a long wait for another from Anderson, but it loooooks like the wait could be over soon. Dennis McMillan (who says Patterson used to buy Rick DeMarinis from him too!) mentioned Green Sun would be coming next year (wait... did he say next year or was that wishful hearing on my part?) Anywho - if you can't wait, Gonzalo Baeza tracked down this link to the first chapter online. Thanks, man.
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The Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong was built gradually—building on top of building—over time. Without a single architect, the ungoverned and most densely populated district became a haven for drugs, crime and prostitution until it was demolished in 1993. Photo documentation of the site exists but for the most part much of the inner-workings of the city remained a mystery. Perhaps due to its proximity, Japan, in particular, developed a keen interest towards Kowloon. Its demolition in 1993 was broadcast on national television. More
