Serial Vigilantes of Paperback FictionAn Encyclopedia from Able Team to Z-Comm
Brad Mengel
ISBN 978-0-7864-4165-5
bibliographies, index
softcover (7 x 10) 2009
Description
Rough justice has often been served in the pages of serial novels, notably beginning with Don Pendleton’s The Executioner in 1969. This is the first overview of the serial vigilante genre, which featured such hard-boiled protagonists as Nick Carter, Mark Stone, Jake Brand and Able Team among the 130 series that followed Pendleton’s novel. Serial vigilantes repeatedly take the law into their own hands, establishing and imposing their own moral standards, usually by force. The book examines the connections between the serial vigilante and the pulp hero that preceded him and how the serial vigilante has influenced a variety of tough guys, private eyes, spies and cops in different media. A complete bibliography for each series is featured.
About the Author
Brad Mengel works in Australia’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. He’s contributed critical analysis to Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer’s Wold Newton Universe and short fiction to Tales of the Shadowmen Vol. 3.
3 comments:
TOO COOL! i'VE BEEN WAITING FOR A REFERENCE WORK LIKE THIS TO BE PUBLISHED. THANKS FOR THE HEADS-UP!
You got it, Bish! I know Brad and he's been working on this a long time. It's going to be a great book.
Oh yes, count me in - there was agaggle of us at school (back in the early 80s) who lived and thrived on the exploits of Mack Bolan!
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