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First edition bound in yellow boards. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. The book has a small bump to the bottom front corner. The dust jacket has dust soiling to the rear panel. Small rubs to the outer corners and two vertical, closed, 1" tears at the rear panel's upper edge.
307 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1977
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Frank Gruber
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Frank Gruber was an enormously prolific author of pulp fiction. A stalwart contributor to Black Mask magazine, he also wrote novels, producing as many as four a year during the 1940s. His best-known character was Oliver Quade, “the Human Encyclopedia,” whose adventures were collected in Brass Knuckles (1966), and will soon be republished in ebook format as Oliver Quade, the Human Encyclopedia,featuring brand-new material, from MysteriousPress.com, Open Road Integrated Media, and Black Mask magazine.
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
Frank Gruber was an enormously prolific author of pulp fiction. A stalwart contributor to Black Mask magazine, he also wrote novels, producing as many as four a year during the 1940s. His best-known character was Oliver Quade, “the Human Encyclopedia,” whose adventures were collected in Brass Knuckles (1966), and will soon be republished in ebook format as Oliver Quade, the Human Encyclopedia,featuring brand-new material, from MysteriousPress.com, Open Road Integrated Media, and Black Mask magazine.
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September 15, 2017
Mr Gruber is a good writer. I like his stuff.
September 5, 2021
Terse and very tense novel about a man named Tom Logan, who was a prisoner at Andersonville during the Civil War. Ten years later, he gets a line on the man who betrayed him and some others during a mass escape attempt. To find the proof he needs, Tom rejoins the army and becomes a part of Custer's 7th Calvary.
The story has a number of great plot twists as Tom reacts to an always changing situation--first as a soldier and later as a deserter--as he tries to find a way to avenge those killed at Andersonville. Eventually, the plot leads to Little Big Horn and an action-packed ending.
Gruber writes with a terse, hard-boiled style that tells the story well and draws us into that story.
The story has a number of great plot twists as Tom reacts to an always changing situation--first as a soldier and later as a deserter--as he tries to find a way to avenge those killed at Andersonville. Eventually, the plot leads to Little Big Horn and an action-packed ending.
Gruber writes with a terse, hard-boiled style that tells the story well and draws us into that story.
January 1, 2016
Gruber can write a tale! This one of the western U.S. in the 1800s is a good one. Great characterization, settings and story.
The hero of the story is mysteriously etched at different points through out. That is a neat trick by author Gruber. Others are firmly etched. Lots of actual people are well written into the book.
Here's one book that I would have liked to be longer. The ending is a bit abrupt. Though, it's excellent in it's format here.
Bottom line: I recommend this book.
The hero of the story is mysteriously etched at different points through out. That is a neat trick by author Gruber. Others are firmly etched. Lots of actual people are well written into the book.
Here's one book that I would have liked to be longer. The ending is a bit abrupt. Though, it's excellent in it's format here.
Bottom line: I recommend this book.
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