We begin this week in an entirely different park—colonial British India perhaps—where big-game hunting is the sin du jour. Two guests use a form of Russian roulette as a human/robot assay test before getting intimate … they’re looking for the real deal, you see. After their hookup, they head out to the grounds where things…
The tantalizing twists and mysteries that were such a big part of the first season—and so lacking in last week’s Season 2 opener—returned in a small way in this episode, and it’s just enough to spur the interest. The Man in Black (Ed Harris) is, of course, finally in a game where the stakes are…
Commissaire Dupin is back in The Fleur de Sel Murders, the third Brittany mystery from international bestselling author Jean-Luc Bannalec. A lapse in a spattering of crime novels of late is that they are often atmospherically deficient, stagnant—the plots go straight to the ripening corpse with no care for the surroundings. Or when the environs are described,…
At the end of last season, the war had just begun. The robots—manufactured for the sole purpose of the sinful self-indulgence of humans—had developed full sentience after decades of being ravaged and then reprogrammed. All the while, their creator patiently honed them in preparation for their awakening … and for a reckoning. Season 2 picks…
Now in paperback, Dodge City by Tom Clavin is the New York Times bestselling story of the taming of the Wild West—set in Dodge City, the most depraved and criminal town in the nation. The Wyatt Earp myth is spent, taking its place alongside Bingham’s Washington crossing the Delaware and Paul Revere shouting “The British…
Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980, edited by Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette, is the first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction—a must-read for anyone interested in pulp fiction, lost literary history, retro and subcultural…
Jack Waters by Scott Adlerberg is a historical thriller set in 1904 about an American guy from New Orleans—a poker player and fugitive murderer—who joins a Caribbean island revolution for utterly non-political reasons. He has his own reasons for joining the rebellion, based on revenge against someone high up in the country (available January 17,…
Crow Medicine Woman Marilyn Yarlott (Tantoo Cardinal) visits Longmire (Robert Taylor) with a tempting offer: to take him to Malachi Strand (Graham Greene). She compares Malachi to a Japanese bark beetle spreading, killing everything. Malachi and his hoods have been hiding out on the Crow Reservation. At first, she had a profitable arrangement selling them…
Vic (Katee Sackhoff) is learning there is often no such thing as closure. After going to a support group and seeing a woman who, rightfully so, is still crying over a lost child a year later, she listens to Longmire’s (Robert Taylor) advice: instead of talking it out, she needs to—in a manner of speaking—sweat…
The spavined storyline of Longmire vs. Nighthorse continues. Nighthorse (A Martinez) wants to stay out of the prison population, preferring solitary confinement where the long reach of Malachi Strand can’t whack him. (Hard to believe it’s even a question that they would toss him in the general population considering he’s a wealthy “leading” citizen of…
