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Fury

(2014)

There is little in this world that warms the cockles of my heart (whatever those are) than seeing a fucking SS Nazi pig getting disemboweled, cut in half by a machine gun, or having his head blown off. SS men were by far the most evil enemies our troops ever faced. Very few of the G.I.s struggling through the fields of France and Germany had the least interest in taking a fucking SS Nazi ... Read more »

Fuzz

(1972)

I’ve been a faithful reader of Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct novels for decades now, seeking out the original paperbacks going all the way back to the first one, Cop Hater, in 1956. Often there were as many as three or four of them per year, but they were far, far from hack work, just like John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee books. In later years they were less ... Read more »