“Nomad decided he would have to kill the waitress.” In the last twenty years, Robert McCammon has mostly been writing for his Matthew Corbett series, and given that there’s eight of those and they probably average 500 pages each, I’ve been waiting to start them. This book is one of the few book he’s written in that time period that are not from that series. Here, it’s 2008, and we begin with a small tier touring band three years into their existence. The novel opens […]

World War II! Nazis! Spies! A weirdly large amount of sex! Werewolves! Russians! This book is all of the above and mo…! Wait, no. It’s all of the above. This is a book where Robert McCammon had a great idea for a spy novel, and seemed to take it seriously enough to where it’s never quite farcical, allowing the premise to add whatever level of farce was needed, and not the plot itself. The novel itself is about a Russian-born, British spy whose knowledge of […]

It looks like this book is a lot more well-liked than my impressions of it. It’s a weird combination of IT by Stephen King (well, IT and maybe The Body) and Big Fish (or any other tall-tale infused novel). It’s also similar to the Dan Simmons novel Summer of Night that came out about the same time, almost as if the two authors each decided to write their version of IT as some kind of tribute. Like Summer of Night, I feel like this book […]