Los Angeles Holocaust

Lone Wolf #8

by Barry N. Malzberg

When a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can't live much longer.Los Angeles was not a place but a mental state, the mental state of a severely deranged person. Wulff hated it. Los Angeles and New York were nominally both American cities but while New York was a great, steaming, dying beast, Los Angeles was merely vapor.Wulff was marked, but he was marked for Calabrese. He was Calabrese's game, Wulff, was, Wulff and his two million dollar cargo. Wulff was scheduled for killing, and it might as well happen in this cheap rooming house for unemployed actors in this suburb in a city that was all suburbs at the ragged-ass end of the continent ...In the room both sprawled on the floor, shook, limbs flailing like and insect's, in his coma. The small man flinched, and said, Your work is well known. But you will never get out of Peru without my help ...

131 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Barry Nathaniel Malzberg was an American writer and editor, most often of science fiction and fantasy.

He had also published as:
Mike Barry (thriller/suspense)
K.M. O'Donnell (science fiction/fantasy)
Mel Johnson (adult)
Howard Lee (martial arts/TV tie-ins)
Lee W. Mason (adult)
Claudine Dumas (adult)
Francine di Natale (adult)
Gerrold Watkins (adult)
Eliot B. Reston

Reviews

[L J Field]

This book is sort of a bridge novel between books seven and nine. It was okay, but not too much happened.

[Adam Clark]

I’m afraid this series continues to get marginally worse with each instalment (since it peaked with no.4). Ends in an egregious (but fine) cliffhanger. But Malzberg’s prose is still pretty much without peer and I’m in it till the end, just like Burt Wulff.

[Ralph Carlson]

Another fast paced and violent read. On to number nine.