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White Bizango Paperback – November 10, 2017
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FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY JOE R LANSDALE:
"WHITE BIZANGO's mood wraps around you like a warm blanket. Gave me the kind of sensation I used to have as a kid, watching some monster movie late at night, rainy and windy outside, sitting on the couch or in front of it, tenting a blanket over me, feeling wonderfully and pleasantly terrified."
“Fast-paced, beautifully crafted, sinister, funny and cold… …unhesitatingly recommended”—Infinity Plus
A new kind of predator is on the loose. When the middle classes began to adopt vodoun as a lifestyle fad, their doors were opened to a ruthless white male with a command of the religion’s darker practical secrets.
Rescued from the morgue and a bizarre and unpleasant end, Louisiana detective John Lafcadio owes his life to the Cult Crime Co-ordinators. Known also as the Voodoo Cops, their job is to dispel superstition and nail crimes of ignorance.But how do you hunt down a killer whose victims are also his protectors?
And how can Lafcadio hope to identify a man whose eyes he once stared into, but whose face he can’t remember?
“There is no doubting the tension that is built up across the events of White Bizango, and I defy any reader not to feel compelled to read on when confronted with chapter endings that expertly throw out new information, create new plot puzzles and introduce new levels of threat”—Matt Hills, Interzone
“His work has that kind of beat and boogie that only writers of character and style have. He plots well. But his strength is in the purity of his storytelling and in the development of his characters… Man, this book is easy to read, and it’s wonderful”—Joe R Lansdale
- Print length210 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateNovember 10, 2017
- Dimensions5.25 x 0.53 x 8 inches
- ISBN-100995797382
- ISBN-13978-0995797383
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- Publisher : The Brooligan Press
- Publication date : November 10, 2017
- Language : English
- Print length : 210 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0995797382
- ISBN-13 : 978-0995797383
- Item Weight : 10.7 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.25 x 0.53 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #9,295,878 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4,449 in Witch & Wizard Thrillers
- #21,966 in Occult Fiction
- #67,145 in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Action Fiction (Books)
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About the author

Beginning his TV career with the BBC's DOCTOR WHO, Stephen Gallagher went on to establish himself as a writer and director of high-end miniseries and primetime episodic television. In his native England he's adapted and created hour-long and feature-length thrillers and crime dramas. In the US he was lead writer on NBC's CRUSOE, creator of CBS Television's ELEVENTH HOUR, and Co-Executive Producer on ABC's THE FORGOTTEN. His fourteen novels include DOWN RIVER, RAIN, VALLEY OF LIGHTS, and NIGHTMARE, WITH ANGEL. He's the creator of Sebastian Becker, Special Investigator to the Lord Chancellor's Visitor in Lunacy, in a series of novels beginning with THE KINGDOM OF BONES and THE BEDLAM DETECTIVE, continuing in THE AUTHENTIC WILLIAM JAMES.
Described by The Independent as "the finest British writer of bestselling popular fiction since le Carré ... Gallagher, like le Carré, is a novelist whose themes seem to reflect something of the essence of our times, and a novelist whose skill lies in embedding those themes in accessible plots." According to Arena magazine, "Gallagher has quietly become Britain's finest popular novelist, working a dark seam between horror and the psychological thriller.
The Daily Telegraph wrote, "Since Valley of Lights, he has been refining his own brand of psycho-thriller, with a discomforting knack of charting mental disintegration and a razor-sharp sense of place." Charles de Lint wrote in Mystery Scene magazine, "Gallagher is a master of abnormal psychology and he just gets better and better." Also in Mystery Scene David Mathew added, "never a writer to rest on his laurels, he has written good hard thrillers, some horror genre work (such as Valley of Lights), and a novel (Oktober) that might even qualify as a vague distortion of contemporary world fantasy... in places. You might go as far as to employ that overused phrase sui generis. He is, at any rate, one of the best writers of his generation."
Winner of British Fantasy and International Horror Guild awards.
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- Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2017Your name is John Lafcadio and you're a police detective in Iberville, Louisiana. You're wrestling with a man who attempted to kidnap a small boy when he suddenly spits in your face and you're completely paralyzed! You can think, see and hear but can't even blink your eyes. When your colleagues find you, there is no respiration or pulse and you're declared dead. As you lay there, you begin to wonder if maybe you really are dead but just haven't left your body yet. As the detectives and forensic people work around your body you know what the routine will be; since you're a police detective killed in the line of duty, your autopsy will be fast tracked. And you begin to fear that you'll still be aware when the cutting starts.
Good story, fast paced, I liked it and would recommend it.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2014Very good read for the price.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2009A Southern thriller from the horror writer, introduced by Joe Lansdale (who, sadly, hasn't done a voodoo mystery of his own).
In the brief space of this short novel, Gallagher tells a fairly straightforward mystery here, with a pretty conventional embittered detective as protagonist. The method, however, is anything but mundane, as the mystery introduces the politics and ethics of voodoo and its practitioners.
A quick read, but a good one, with an evocative setting. The pace is erratic, but the goal seems to be to create a mood and feel - a 'bayou noir'. It works, if you don't get too bogged down in the slow bits.
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- TinpantsReviewed in the United Kingdom on September 9, 2014
5.0 out of 5 stars Good story
Very good, enjoyed it a lot, but nothing has managed to equal Valley of Lights for me.