Seven a.m. in early December is the best time to visit Times Square. The hordes of holiday tourists have yet to descend; the stores and theaters are closed; the costumed “performers” won’t show up to hustle the passersby for another few hours. Sure, you have to deal with the visual offense of building-sized screens flashing…
Like most people, I first read Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” in a high school English class. Its plot is straightforward: a big-game hunter, Rainsford, is marooned on a jungle island where he meets a mysterious man named General Zaroff. The General proposes a peculiar diversion: he’ll hunt Rainsford for three days; if Rainsford…
Boise Longpig Hunting Club by Nick Kolakowski is a wild ride into the dark heart of the American dream, where even the most brutal desires can be fulfilled for a price, and nobody is safe from the rich and powerful. When you want someone found, you call bounty hunter Jake Halligan. He’s smart, tough, and best…
Slaughterhouse Blues by Nick Kolakowski catches up with Bill and Fiona—the chattery and gun-happy antiheroes of A Brutal Bunch of Heartbroken Saps—soon after they’ve escaped the Rockaway Mob, the criminal enterprise from which Bill “borrowed” several million dollars (available February 9, 2018). Read an exclusive excerpt from Slaughterhouse Blues by Nick Kolakowski, then make sure…
