Victor Gischler - Free Library Land Online

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]]> Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:38:29 +0200 The Shadow Sorceress https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/548488-the_shadow_sorceress.html https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/548488-the_shadow_sorceress.html

]]> Thu, 18 Jun 2020 14:30:36 +0300 The Bones of the World: An Epic Fantasy Series (Kingdom of Ghosts Book 3) https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/670343-the_bones_of_the_world_an_epic_fantasy_series_kingdom_of_ghosts_book_3.html https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/670343-the_bones_of_the_world_an_epic_fantasy_series_kingdom_of_ghosts_book_3.html The Bones of the World: An Epic Fantasy Series (Kingdom of Ghosts Book 3)

]]> Sat, 30 Dec 2023 09:20:47 +0200 Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/3231-go-go_girls_of_the_apocalypse.html https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/3231-go-go_girls_of_the_apocalypse.html

Mortimer Tate was a recently divorced insurance salesman when he holed up in a cave on top of a mountain in Tennessee and rode out the end of the world. Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse begins nine years later, when he emerges into a bizarre landscape filled with hollow reminders of an America that no longer exists. The highways are lined with abandoned automobiles; electricity is generated by indentured servants pedaling stationary bicycles. What little civilization remains revolves around Joey Armageddon's Sassy A-Go-Go strip clubs, where the beer is cold, the lap dancers are hot, and the bouncers are armed with M16s. Accompanied by his cowboy sidekick Buffalo Bill, the gorgeous stripper Sheila, and the mountain man Ted, Mortimer journeys to the lost city of Atlanta -- and a showdown that might determine the fate of humanity. ]]> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:20:59 +0300 Gun Monkeys https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/3233-gun_monkeys.html https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/3233-gun_monkeys.html

Charlie Swift just pumped three . 38-caliber bullets into a dead polar bear in his taxidermist girlfriend’s garage. But he’s a gun monkey, and no one can blame him for having an itchy trigger finger. Ever since he drove down the Florida Turnpike with a headless body in the trunk of a Chrysler, then took down four cops, Charlie’s been running hard through the sprawling sleaze of central Florida. And to make matters worse, he’s holding on to some crooked paperwork that a lot of people would like to take off his hands. Now, with his boss disappeared and his friends dropping like flies, Charlie has got his work cut out just to survive. If he wants to keep the money and get the girl too, he’s really going to have to go ape. . . Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, Gun Monkeys is a fast, furious collage of wit and wise guys, violence and thrills—and a full-throttle run through the dark side of the Sunshine State. ]]> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 18:21:35 +0300 Suicide Squeeze https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/3234-suicide_squeeze.html https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/3234-suicide_squeeze.html

breathing. "From the Hardcover edition. "The Edgar Award-nominated author of Gun Monkeys delivers an adrenaline rush of a novel that features a special appearance by Joe DiMaggio. The high spot of Teddy Folger's life was the day in 1954 that he got an autographed baseball card from Joe DiMaggio himself. It's been downhill ever since. Which is why he just unloaded his freeloading wife and torched his own comic-book store–in one of the stupidest insurance scams in history. Enter Conner Samson. The down-on-his-luck repo man has just been hired to repossess Teddy's boat. Little does he know there's a baseball card on board that some men are willing to kill for. Thus begins a rip-roaring cross-country odyssey–and with bodies piling up, the squeeze is on for the penultimate piece of Americana. And Conner will be lucky if he ends up back where he started: broke and (still) breathing.From the Hardcover edition.]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2004 18:21:43 +0300 The Pistol Poets https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/3232-the_pistol_poets.html https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/3232-the_pistol_poets.html

Mixing poetry with drugs, sex, and murder would not be the first thing to come to mind if you were thinking about writing crime fiction. And unless you're Victor Gischler, the results of such an abominable coupling would likely be a bad as it sounds. But if Gischler isn't the most talented new crime writer to hit the pages in the last few years, he is certainly the most bizarre. Of his three novels - five stars everyone - "The Pistol Poets" is the most blackly humorous - think a more evil Carl Hiaasen - certainly the most imaginative, and probably the best of the bunch. . . ]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2004 18:21:25 +0300 Vampire a Go-Go https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/3230-vampire_a_go-go.html https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/3230-vampire_a_go-go.html

Victor Gischler is a master of the class-act literary spoof, and his work has drawn comparison to that of Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, and Thomas Pynchon. Now, Gischler turns his attention to werewolves, alchemists, ghosts, witches, and gun-toting Jesuit priests in Vampire a Go-Go, a hilarious romp of spooky, Gothic entertainment. Narrated by a ghost whose spirit is chained to a mysterious castle in Prague, Gischler's latest is full of twists and surprises that will have readers screaming - and laughing - for more. ]]> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:20:36 +0300 Fast Charlie https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/674702-fast_charlie.html https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/674702-fast_charlie.html

Now a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan, Morena Baccarin, and (in his final role) James Caan, FAST CHARLIE is a breathless, top-velocity tale of treachery, taxidermy, and family ties.
THE EDGAR AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!
Victor Gischler’s legendary first novel, originally published as GUN MONKEYS, tells the story of Charlie Swift, loyal Mob enforcer to a Central Florida crime boss, who goes ballistic when a rival gangster murders his crew, his boss goes missing, the FBI swarms the scene, and a cadre of killers come after him with everything they’ve got. No one’s quicker on the trigger than Charlie Swift – but is Charlie fast enough to get himself out alive…?
Now a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan, Morena Baccarin, and (in his final role) James Caan, FAST CHARLIE is a breathless, top-velocity tale of treachery, taxidermy, and family ties.]]> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:01:19 +0200 CONQUISTADOR: A Sarah Ripley Thriller https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/619183-conquistador_a_sarah_ripley_thriller.html https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/619183-conquistador_a_sarah_ripley_thriller.html

]]> Thu, 27 Oct 2022 23:55:07 +0300 POPCORN https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/407336-popcorn.html https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/407336-popcorn.html POPCORN

]]> Wed, 26 Nov 2014 08:56:43 +0200 The Deputy https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/200508-the_deputy.html https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/200508-the_deputy.html

A lone man, in over his head, against a corrupt town in the middle of nowhere. Toby Sawyer starts the night with a simple job: babysit the body of Luke Jordan. Luke, one of a family of four brothers (all bad apples), has gone and got himself shot over what appears to be getting too friendly with someone else’s girl. Toby’s working part time for the police department, hoping he’ll someday get the bump up to full-time deputy. He’s got a trailer, a wife, a baby boy, and not much else. Coyote Crossing isn’t exactly a hotbed of opportunity for a young man, after all. Unless, of course, a young man has a knack for the illegal. Turns out Luke Jordan might have been involved in smuggling Mexican illegals up through Texas. Turns out Luke Jordan might not be the only one in town with a stake in the operation. Turns out Luke Jordan’s death might not be the last one on this hot Oklahoma night …]]> Sat, 16 Nov 1996 00:29:42 +0200 Big Stupid (POPCORN) https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/219703-big_stupid_popcorn.html https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/219703-big_stupid_popcorn.html

]]> Sat, 16 Nov 2013 22:38:39 +0200 Pistol Poets https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/200509-pistol_poets.html https://christmas.library.land/victor-gischler/200509-pistol_poets.html

The Edgar-nominated author of Gun Monkeys is back with a thrill-a-minute suspense novel that mixes crime and academia—with hilarious results. Here Victor Gischler draws us into a wild and wicked world, where tenured professors are busy burying bodies, cash-up-front P.I.'s hunt for missing coeds and one desperate street-tough has to decide which he'd rather be: a live poet or a dead criminal. An unlucky grad student just got himself killed in a robbery gone bad. And as lowly drug lieutenant Harold Jenks races with the killer out of the alley, a light goes off in his head: He'll steal the dead kid's identity. Now Jenks, who once lorded it over seven square blocks in East St. Louis, is headed due west. With a.32 in his pocket, a 9mm Glock taped across his back, and a rap sheet nearly as long as Finnegans Wake, he's cruising the halls of academia as Eastern Oklahoma U's newest grad student, looking for action and hoping he can stay one couplet ahead of his violent past. While this new bad boy on campus makes mincemeat of his metaphors, across campus visiting professor Jay Morgan has a more pressing problem: What to do about the dead coed in his bed. The professor's no killer, but try telling that to private eye Deke Stubbs. With the professor on the lam and Stubbs hot on his trail, more trouble blows into town. Now, as St. Louis drug boss Red Zach and his minions converge on Fumbee, Oklahoma, looking for a consignment of missing cocaine, the bullets start flying faster than the zingers at a faculty hate fest. For Morgan and Jenks, now desperate fugitives from poetic justice, survival means learning new skills—and learning fast. Because if they find out they're bottom-of-the-class, that means they're already dead. Featuring the sleaziest, sorriest, and most captivating group of criminal lowlifes, sexed-up academics, poets, and rappers ever to collide in one crime novel, The Pistol Poets speeds deliriously to its electrifying payoff.]]> Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:29:42 +0200