Pure Action Four Pack

by Ralph Dennis, Robert E. Dunn, W.L. Ripley

Four explosive, high-intensity action novels in one power-packed volume ATLANTA DEATHWATCH by Ralph Dennis DEAD MAN’S BADGE by Robert E. Dunn HAIL STORME by W.L. Ripley THE OWL by Bob Forward ATLANTA DEATHWATCH It's Atlanta, 1974. Ex-cop Jim Hardman works as an unlicensed PI, trouble-shooter and bodyguard…often partnered with his drinking buddy Hump Evans, a black, ex-NFL player who supports his playboy lifestyle by working as hired muscle. Hardman is hired by The Man, the "Black Godfather," to investigate the murder of his white girlfriend, a college student. It’s a case that plunges Hardman and Hump into the center of a violent street war that stretches from Atlanta’s seedy back alleys to the marbled corridors of power. "Gritty writing? Tough talk? Gripping action? Yes, yes and yes." The Daily Oklahoman DEAD MAN’S BADGE “It's terrific. It's lean and smart and very good. I say, check it out.” Joe Lansdale Career criminal Longview Moody, on the run from killers, assumes his dead, twin brother's identity as the new Chief of Police of a Texas town that's being terrorized by a Mexican drug cartel. HAIL STORME Vietnam vet and former pro football player Wyatt Storme is bow-hunting in Missouri when he stumbles upon a hidden field of marijuana…and unravels a deadly conspiracy of corruption, drug-trafficking and organized crime… and making himself someone that just about everybody wants dead. "Here's one for the boys who like to kick butt. Fighting the good fight has seldom been so much fun!" Kirkus Reviews THE OWL The most daring and original hero in crime fiction… in a debut novel that’s a relentless, pure-adrenaline rush. It’s the mid-1980s. Crime in Los Angeles is running rampant. When the law can’t help you, there is one man who Alexander L’Hiboux, whose ability to sleep was destroyed in the ghastly tragedy that cost him his family. Now he’s justice-for-hire, prowling the streets and solving crimes with deadly finality. “Mike Hammer is a wimp compared to The Owl,” Bill Crider, author of Outrage at Blanco and the bestselling Sheriff Dan Rhoades mysteries

774 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 21, 2020

About the author

Ralph Dennis was born in South Carolina and had a master’s degree from the University of North Carolina, where he also taught. For mystery fans, Dennis will always be associated with the City of Atlanta, the locale for the twelve novel series about Jim Hardman, former cop and unofficial private eye, all published by Popular Library between 1974 and 1977.

At the time of his death in 1988, he was working at a bookstore in Atlanta and had a file cabinet full of unpublished novels.

Reviews

[Roger · Rating 3 out of 5]

Four very good books.