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Title: Night Raider

Author: Mike Barry

Narrator: Adam Epstein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Burt Wulff has gone beyond fear, beyond love, even beyond hate. He's simply beyond giving the slightest damn whether he lives or dies, so long as he can kill the killers - thousands of them, all over American and all over the world. He is the lone wolf.

Members Reviews:

Tough as Nails and Crazy as a Loon

This is a real slice-of-the-70s hard-boiled pulp novel, pretty much one of the finest of the breed. It seems to be more firmly in the vein of TAXI DRIVER and the first DEATH WISH rather than later super-vigilantes like Mack Bolan and the Butcher. It follows the boilerplate for such things -- lone cop on the edge goes out on his own to seek revenge -- but it's remarkable in its refusal to make the protagonist seem heroic. Instead, Wulff is presented as basically having lost his mind, frequently referring to himself as "dead," living in flop houses, killing in cold blood, and succeeding in all this more by chance than by good planning.

So yes, it's unlikely that a guy could set a house on fire while locked in a basement room and survive it; the revolvers all somehow have safeties and are referred to as "point three eights"; but the plot moves along quickly and despite a few details is probably more easy to swallow in general than the usual one-many army easily wiping out armies of bad guys.

Highly recommended, and it's great to see these back in print at an affordable price.

Extremely good, tightly written vigilante novel

This is a cult series for a lot of hb fans, and it's a good thing that Prologue books has brought it back into print, as the original books are impossible to find.

This has the framework of a lot of men's adventure series from this period. Hero, ex Military and Narcotics officer, goes through a personal tragedy -- his girlfriend is found dead from an overdose -- and he decides to leave the force and pursue his own vengeance. And it's episodic the way these type of books often were -- the way it's structured is that our hero is following one thread systematically, and by the end of this book he's worked his way up to what I guess you'd call an "intelligence officer" for the Mob.

But this was written by Barry Malzberg (under a pseudonym), who's a genius, and he somewhere along the way evidently realized that this sort of character would be a seriously disturbed figure. And make no mistake, our protag is seriously disturbed, Malzberg does a great job with this guy's psychology, showing how unpleasant he really is. Yet the great thing about the book is that it still works like a men's adventure novel, you could conceivably read it and pick up on none of this. It's paced well and the action sequences are extremely well done (surprisingly so, truthfully I didn't think Malzberg had it in him). There's some deus ex machinas, of course, probably inevitable in a story like this, but Malzberg manages to shade those by giving them poetic weight. So, for instance, one bad guy's house is burnt down, symbolizing that this guy's life looked impressive but was built on nothing (Malzberg stresses how the house collapses *inward*). Etc.

Highly recommended, this manages to both work as a action novel and make me curious about where he plans to take the guy further.