Sorted on book title (not in series order)
If there's one thing worse than a crooked cop on your heels then it's a whole unit of them.
A fistful of people are murdered, fifteen million dollars is stolen and detective Tom Bishop is stuck in the middle. When he hits the street, every clue points in the same...Read more
Sometimes you just have to start off a book review with a bunch of warnings - so let's get the public service announcements out of the road now. Don't read DARK CITY BLUE if:
a) you're going to need sleep in the immediate future;
b) you're about to cough up the annual...Read more
Lee Marvin: one of the most coolly charismatic and extraordinary screen tough guys ever. Armed with a magnetic personality, a wild temper and major acting talent, he went from playing bit parts to starring in classics such as Cat Ballou, The Dirty Dozen and Point Blank, and winning an...Read more
Loved this idea when I first heard about it - a set of fictional adventures for a real-life movie star. And one that even I've heard of!
Making a man like Lee Marvin star in these adventures obviously means that these are going to be noir stories, hard-boiled as a rock, with a...Read more
Sometimes a little violence is a good thing
You can't go on the kind of spree ex-cop Tom Bishop did and not face consequences.
After three years of rotting in a cell, Bishop is busted out of prison in the dead of night and thrown into the middle of a police war where...Read more
OUT OF EXILE is the second Tom Bishop book from local author Luke Preston.
Let's focus on that. The second book.
It follows on from DARK CITY BLUE, taking the dangerous, damaged and deeply conflicted ex-cop Tom Bishop back, ever so slightly, onto the side of the...Read more