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In the fourteenth hour, my arms ached so much I couldn’t stop crying. In the twenty-first, I’m too dehydrated to [...]

Inauguration of an obsession: A first look at British adventure character Modesty Blaise, an undersung treasure of the thriller genre, [...]

Greg Rucka’s latest, and probably final, Tara Chase story is a great read—a tense, taut bit of plotting and pacing. [...]

After Steig Larsson’s deliberate thrillers, the more organic and emotional writing of fellow Swede Henning Mankell is a marked contrast. [...]

My girlfriend recently observed that nearly all my stories take place in bars. Maybe I have a fictional drinking problem. [...]

Themed Book Reviews! Starting an autumn series about female-centric thrillers! First, the obvious: Steig Larsson’s Girl Who Did Stuff trilogy [...]

More thoughts about songs and writing. A peculiar mistake that nearly derails my point, but I’m saved by a Monkee. [...]

One of my favorite writers is Smokey Robinson. He doesn’t write novels or screenplays. But for a great short story [...]

I’m remiss in my movie reviewing (new job’s kicking my ass), but two recent films have interested me as challenges [...]

Brian:  Here’s a monologue I did while working out larger ideas. It came out indebted to a Neil Gaiman comic, [...]