"Hammer has written a great war novel here, brilliantly informed on munitions and the horrors of close combat. This is a Northern novel, with echoes of Michael Shaara's 'The Killer Angels, ' but it also evokes---in the author's sympathy for poor white Peckerwoods---the bleak cracker comedies of Erskine Caldwell." ---John Mort, Vietnam combat veteran and author of the award-winning novel, "Soldier in Paradise"--- BREAKING SLAVE SHACKLES Black soldiers (and a Peckerwood white boy) free the slaves---that's the thrust of "Emancipating." Opening as Sherman's soldiers win the Battle of Atlanta, the...
"Hammer has written a great war novel here, brilliantly informed on munitions and the horrors of close combat. This is a Northern novel, with echoes o...
What's this about a Death Angel? Recently widowed and quite old, Rosa Lee Rainsburg wants something to happen now, or she wants everything to stop---just STOP. Then it starts happening too fast as she enters a nursing home and meets her first roommate, who dies that very night. Is this another visitation of the sinister Death Angel, whom some residents believe haunts the halls of Hearthstone? Two more deaths follow, and Detective Lieutenant Sterling P. Fjord---elderly himself---comes to investigate. Under suspicion, Rosa Lee endures his interrogation, warding him off in a verbal fencing...
What's this about a Death Angel? Recently widowed and quite old, Rosa Lee Rainsburg wants something to happen now, or she wants everything to stop---j...
Cheeky Damn Kraut That cheeky damn Kraut followed Ethel home on the streetcar. He was pretty good looking, but woo her as he might, for many months he couldn't win her. Only after he took a beating from her kinfolk, only after she pitched in with a mop handle to rescue him, did he slip into bed with her. They were young then. They lived long together and quarreled a lot. He got sick, and during the next nine months they thought back to good times and bad. Out of wooden matches, Willi had once built a log fort for his stepson on Ethel's bedroom floor, then helped the kid blast it down with...
Cheeky Damn Kraut That cheeky damn Kraut followed Ethel home on the streetcar. He was pretty good looking, but woo her as he might, for many months he...