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Day Tweve of showcasing books published by Parallel Universe Publications and it's Adrian Cole's collection Tough Guys.
Adrian’s latest collection, Tough Guys, contains three previously
unpublished novellas and a short. Based on the title theme, these four
works are completely different in subject matter and tone. There is, of
course, A Nick Nightmare story herein, ‘Wait for the Ricochet’, in
which the gumshoe is entrusted to convey a message about “The Malleus
Tenebrarum”, a book that names the properties and powers of dark and
light, to the Mechanic, one Oil-Gun Eddy... His adversary is the
sinister Lucien de Sangreville, plus assorted non-human denizens of the
murky lower levels, and his sidekick the sword-wielding business-woman
Ariadne Carnadine. In contrast, in ‘If You Don’t Eat Your Meat’ the
reader enters a post-apocalyptic world where the very unsavoury Ryan
relates his story of rival families and cannibalism. It is gruesome and
unflinching horror. In ‘A Smell of Burning’ a hospital patient finds he
is having out-of-the-body experiences. On his astral journeys he visits a
man recalling his abused childhood and this leads to a shocking
revelation... Finally, ‘Not If You Want to Live’ explores the fate of
Razorjack, who is a Redeemer, a dead man used by a shady organisation to
bring back others from death. An intriguing and engrossing story of
love between Razorjack (aka Jack Krane) and mobster’s moll Rebecca
Fellini, with science fictional and satanic elements.
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