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 Evil Eye - Michael Slade
Newest Review: ... is clubbed to death in her farmhouse home not far from the scene and Jack MacDougall of the RCMP, a veteran of this series, ... more  ... suffers a similar fate in the car-park outside the Red Serge Regimentary Banquet he is attending. At first it looks as though all three attacks have been carried out by the same perpetrator but, on closer examination, doubts begin to be raised. Not least when Corporal Nick Craven, whom we first met in the Ripper investigation, begins to look like a very possible suspect for the murder of his mother in her home....
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Evil Eye - Michael Slade: Out of Africa....a psycho spawned from Nick Craven's past is ... (938 words)
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Zombie is the penultimate novel penned under the original team of Canadian Lawyers who wrote under the name of Michael Slade. The next book in the series would be the last written by the original line-up and the pseudonym would then pass onto one of the remaining Lawyers and his daughter. This, some argue, is when the Special X series began to decline in quality and become a mere shadow of it's former self. Though the novels continued to follow the same set of characters, any future books would never have the same appeal as those that made up the early series. The book Zombie which I am about to review is now published under the title of Evil Eye, which was ... Read the complete review
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