Seconds

Intriguing and suspenseful, with an atmosphere of dread that never lets up. The main character's odyssey reads like a bad fever dream. Great stuff.......more

I saw the great John Frankenheimer movie of this novel in the 1960s and then went out and got the book. It is an excellent thriller about a middle-aged man who gets to be "reborn" as someone who looks like Rock Hudson and who is an artist in Malibu with no obligations to nobody. Perfect? Well... Tonight......more

In 1964, David Ely produced a novel of existential despair that also manages to be a satire on the consumer-targeted managerial capitalism that was at the core of the American dream before the dissent of the mid-1960s took hold. Almost ten years earlier (1955 (novel) and 1956 (film)), in 'The Man in......more

The Basis Of A Classic Movie This novel became the basis of one of Rock Hudson's best movies. A middle age banker is given a second chance at life by a mysterious organization.......more

This dark, comedic suspense thriller was chosen as the final part in John Frankenheimer's "Paranoia" trilogy of movies. Imagine a cross-over episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, The Man from U. N. C. L. E. and The Prisoner with Laugh-In montages. Imagine Milburn Drysdale walking into the Tailor/Dry C......more