At his death, three months ago, 65-year-old Executioner Elliott had done 387 executions. At $150 per person he had executed about $50,000 worth. They included Ruth Snyder, Judd Gray, Sacco ...

My god but did he blow the shit out of a lot of guys named Carmine. Between ‘68 and 1980, Pendleton published about a dozen Executioner novels. They were essentially comic books without the ...

Nic Dunlop talked about his book, [The Lost Executioner: A Journey to the Heart of the Killing Fields], published by Walker and Company. A native of Ireland, he made many trips to Cambodia to ...

The discussion of canonical texts – like Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest (1929), perhaps the central case study here – pays clear dividends throughout Unwilling Executioner. Among this book's ...

ROCKING THE BOAT [300 pp.)—Gore Vidal—Little, Brown ($5.00). With the publication of this wistfully titled collection of literary and political essays, Gore Vidal must be acknowledged ...