{"id":14309,"date":"2014-03-18T09:40:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T14:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/?p=14309"},"modified":"2014-03-18T09:40:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T14:40:16","slug":"free-kindle-book-editors-picks-charles-alverson-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/2014\/03\/18\/free-kindle-book-editors-picks-charles-alverson-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Kindle book editor’s picks: Charles Alverson edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Novelist, editor and screenwriter Charles Alverson tops today’s Buffet with\u00a0Goodey’s Last Stand<\/em>, the 1975 hard-boiled thriller in which he introduced\u00a0San Francisco private eye Joe Goodey. The New Yorker described the book as “the next-best thing to finding a new and unsuspected Raymond Chandler phantasmagoria.”<\/p>\n

\"charles1\"<\/a>Charles was co-screenwriter of Terry Gilliam’s cult film “Jabberwocky,” (1977) and co-developer of the story that became “Brazil” (1985). His\u00a0credits also include 10 other novels, two children\u2019s books, several short stories and short film scripts, some of which have recently been adapted to comics by the cartoonist John Linton Roberson, including Rapunzel<\/em> and the parody the Story of OH!<\/em><\/p>\n

Charles\u00a0served as a U.S. Army Paratrooper before receiving his M.A. in Journalism from Columbia University. He\u00a0currently lives in the village of Parage in northwestern Serbia with his wife, Zivana.<\/p>\n

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Goodey’s Last Stand<\/a><\/h3>\n

Mystery > Hard-Boiled
\nAuthor: Charles Alverson
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