The Warlord of Willow Ridge

What do you get when an aging biker from the wrong side of the law stops for a rest in a failing, troubled suburban community plagued by gangs and crooks of all stripes? Answer: one action-fueled crime novel with plenty of sex, violence, and shifting alliances. Our fish out of water finds some attra......more

Being a Phillips fan, it hurts to say, I wish I had never read this. Can't blame a guy for trying to join the "mainstream"(paying) writers, this felt like that, James Patterson drek. very white, kind of soulless, easily palatable to the mass's that don't want to think very hard or at all. Sorry mate, I get......more

O'Connor is a man on the edge of life, love and misdeeds it could go either way with just the slightest misstep along the road of ex friends, ex lovers and an angry ex.......more

If you like pulpy crime fiction -- and I am guessing that you do, otherwise, why in hell are you reading this blog? -- I wholeheartedly recommend Gary Phillips' latest novel, Warlord of Willow Ridge. It has just about everything you might want in a hardboiled story about the underworld: Rape; Murder;......more