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Nick Horvath is the author of the Sledge vs. action-noir series. A native of northern Minnesota, Nick double-majored in Physics and English at Duke before embarking on a 12-year professional basketball career. Over that time he transformed myself from a timid finesse player into a rugged rebounding monster, much like his savage anti-hero, Sledge Laukkanen.

Since retirement from sport he's become a physics teacher and writer. Though he has yet to bludgeon anyone to death with his hardened bones, anyone wishing to date his daughter should consider themselves forewarned!

Nick draws inspiration from 80’s action and horror movies, fighting games, the Dark Souls universe, Robert. E Howard’s Conan, Frank Miller’s Sin City, and hard-boiled mystery ...more

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Conan the (Tomb) Raider! This one is a great time. Carpenter's Conan feels like Conan. In this one we get a young Conan during his thieving years on the hunt for tomb-buried treasure. You get all your favorite Conan tropes done well. The sexy untrus ...more
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gets 5/5 for the Frazetta cover and the og Howard content. also includes two unfinished Howard short stories found after his death, finished by De Camp. Really enjoyed the first one, which actually includes Conan as the MC. the second one is from a r ...more
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“Sledge stays in the shadows while keeping an eye on everything”
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“Roman was handed a walk-on spot on York’s basketball team, where, according to Shawn, he slithered so far up Coach X’s ass that every time Roman jerked off it gave Coach X a runny nose.”
― Nick Horvath, Sledge vs. The Labyrinth

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