Bryan Cassiday's Blog, page 7
February 11, 2017
Is Legion for real?
I saw the new TV series Legion by Noah Hawley on TV the other night. Weird and confusing, but fascinating show. Nicely directed. Quirky characters in an insane asylum involved with nefarious types. Reminds me of Twin Peaks and Clockwork Orange.
Taboo
The TV series Taboo continues to intrigue me. It’s relentlessly dreary, but beautifully acted and lavishly produced. It’s a great period-piece melodrama. There’s always something grungy and vile going on between assorted miscreants bent on doing each other harm. A monotonic Tom Hardy is the antihero who comes out of nowhere to seek revenge.
January 21, 2017
Wipeout is in the wings
Bryan Cassiday’s breakneck thriller Wipeout is in the wings. A troubled PI must find out who his amnesiac client is.
January 10, 2017
Wipeout
Wipeout, the third book in the Ethan Carr PI series, will be available in 2017. A distraught amnesiac hires Carr to find out who he is and why somebody’s trying to kill him.
December 8, 2016
Wipeout is now available on Kindle
Bryan Cassiday’s third Ethan Carr thriller Wipeout is now available on Kindle.
Wallowing in guilt for shooting an innocent boy with a ricocheting bullet when he used to work as an LAPD cop, PI Ethan Carr is hired by a distraught amnesiac who wants to find out who he is.
An assailant firebombs Carr’s Mini Cooper, and in the trunk cops discover a corpse–which is a dead ringer for the amnesiac.
Several hours later the amnesiac is gunned down, and, to Carr’s shock, another amnesiac, who is also a dead ringer, steps into Carr’s office and wants to hire him to find out who he is.
November 27, 2016
Hot and Trending New Thriller at Kindle Scout
November 25, 2016
Wipeout–Number One at Kindle Scout
Bryan Cassiday’s new breakneck thriller Wipeout has climbed the charts to Number One on the “Hot and Trending” list at Kindle Scout. Read sample chapters at Kindle Scout.
November 22, 2016
Bryan Cassiday, the Mind for Mayhem
Watch out. Coming your way will be a nice discount on Bryan Cassiday’s explosive zombie thriller Zombie Apocalypse: The Chad Halverson Series. Be on the lookout for the discount at Amazon. Coming soon . . . Beware: high-impact zombie horror epic.
October 29, 2016
Kindle Scout Campaign for Bryan Cassiday’s New Thriller Wipeout
I am now running a Kindle Scout campaign for my new Ethan Carr thriller Wipeout. Read five sample chapters for free and nominate Wipeout for a Kindle publishing contract if you like them. Here is your chance to provide your input to Kindle Scout and get a book you enjoy published.
October 28, 2016
The Walking Dead, Season 7, Episode 1
Did the graphic violence in the premiere of season 7 of The Walking Dead go beyond the pale? To my mind, the head bashing seemed to go on a tad too long. I don’t know if we needed to see the endless pounding of the victim’s head into a bloody pulp. How many times did the leather-jacketed Jeffrey Dean Morgan have to pummel the guy’s head with a bat wrapped in barbed wire to prove what a heel he is? On the other hand, nobody can deny this episode was one of the most powerful and gripping ever shown on the series.
Even while heads were being pulverized into red paste and eyes were popping out of smashed heads (“Doesn’t that hurt?”), I needed to keep watching, transfixed by the gore. For the most part, it wasn’t violence for the sake of violence. It seemed rooted into the story and revealed the villain’s brutal character. I’m of two minds. I believe the show worked. However, the graphic violence probably went on a little longer than necessary.
