IRRESISTIBLE TARGETS

Three years ago, former MI6 agent Paul Sampson was hired by his old employers to track down a 13 year old Syrian refugee who might posses...

NOTE: This review contains some small spoilers In August of 1973 a Swede called Jan-Erik Olsson, having skipped out on his temporary relea...

Max Collins' first published novel was The Broker, the first of three Quarry novels published in 1976 (originally, Quarry was part of hi...

All the obituaries led with the error. Bill Buckner, whose fielding mistake in Game Six of the 1986 World Series cost the Boston Red Sox th...

I don't know what it is about the Gulf Of Mexico, but if there is a better, steamier, darker backdrop for noirish fiction, I can't...

This poem is one I've always liked. I wrote it in March and April of 1976, in Montreal, and remember well the Metro ride that inspired ...

Seeing his obituaries this week reminded me I met Claus Von Bulow once. It was almost exactly 20 years ago, in July 1999, at the annual Spec...

Yesterday I appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row programme, talking with John Wilson about the Disney announcement they would not engage ...

My discussion with Matthew Bannister about Watergate burglar James McCord is online at BBC Sounds, you can link to it here . It starts abo...

Do you remember when Wallander discovered an ATM in the centre square of Ystad, Sweden was about to crash the world economy? Well, Helsin...

John Havlicek, Boston Celtics' star from 1962 through 1978, died last month. I couldn't get any papers in Britain interested in...

The other night I watched The Fat Man , a 1951 mystery film that's sometimes billed as film noir, which is what got me interested. It...