Title: Horns for the Devil
Author: Louis Malley
Cover artist: George Erickson
Condition: 7/10
Estimated value: $10-15
- "I Want You ... For U.S. Mafia"
- Not many covers break the fourth wall quite this breakingly. "Who are you? You got my sandwiches?! Well then whaddya want? Shut the fuckin' door! You lookin' at my girl!? Jerry, Lou, show this guy what for!"
- This is a fantastic cavalcade of mugs. Hall-of-Fame B-movie extras. Just hanging around, waiting for someone to call them up for another stint in Generic Mid-Century American Crime Story. "Our regular Girl At Bar No. 3 turned her ankle. You're in, kid!"
- It's not exactly like the work of director Louis Malle, but it is ... Malle-y.
- "Look here! Now I'm big and two-toned and my background is Rage Red! Where's my *&%^ing coffee?!"
- Severio Lebbrosa! That means "seriously like a leopard."
- No, no, no, it's "first you get the money, then you get the power, *THEN* you get the women." Come on, man. Did you not watch "Scarface?"
Page 123~
When they got out of the car Ralph squeezed her hand, but she wanted more than that. It had come so suddenly.This was the very least boring sentence, which is wedged in between a conversation with an old lady and a scintillating drive to Westchester. I probably shoulda just let you think it was prelude to a steamy sex scene. Sorry.
~RP
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2 comments:
The guy with his arms crossed looks more like a cop than a gangster. And is the other guy wearing a shoulder holster outside his jacket? He's trying way too hard to be tough.
But she is so deliciously bored.
"Severely leprous": a Dickensian facility for names there.
The guys in the back are Ernesto Scabroso, and Schifoso Laidamente, I bet.
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