Oh man, I loved
Thinner! I used to read a lot of King/Bachman. Every so often I revisit. I think my favourite was Needful Things (film was nowhere near as good, but did star Amanda Plummer, funnily enough ;p).
Right now I am in between books. I had a run of much wanted books - the latest instalments in several ongoing series:
Zombie Fallout 8, Lycan Fallout 2,
Half a Prayer (Tome of Bill book 6) and
San Francisco Night, the sixth Jack Nightingale mystery. This run of good books has spoiled me.
Have tried getting into a couple of sci-fi and fantasy books, but nothing is grabbing me. Seriously considering going back to the start of the Zombie Fallout books and rereading.
Anybody else read the Jack Nightingale mysteries? I highly recommend them - particularly the first one - the rest are all good, but that first one was awesome. They're written by Stephen Leather - and like most of his books there's a strong thread of detailed police/spy procedural.
Here's the plot summary for Nightshade, the first in the series:
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'You're going to hell, Jack Nightingale': They are words that ended his career as a police negotiator. Now Jack's a struggling private detective - and the chilling words come back to haunt him.
Nightingale's life is turned upside down the day that he inherits a mansion with a priceless library; it comes from a man who claims to be his father, and it comes with a warning. That Nightingale's soul was sold at birth and a devil will come to claim it on his thirty-third birthday - just three weeks away.
Jack doesn't believe in Hell, probably doesn't believe in Heaven either. But when people close to him start to die horribly, he is led to the inescapable conclusion that real evil may be at work. And that if he doesn't find a way out he'll be damned in hell for eternity.
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