Doppelganger Gambit [Mass Market Paperback]

Lee Killough (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Del Rey; First edition (June 12, 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345282671
• ISBN-13: 978-0345282675
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,467,756 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I have been storytelling almost as long as I can remember, starting somewhere around the age of four or five with making up my own bedtime stories. In grade school the stories became episodes of my favorite radio and TV shows, predating the fan-written Star Trek literature by decades. Then, in keeping with wisdom that says the golden age of science fiction is about age eleven, at that age I discovered science fiction and fantasy. That first SF novel hooked me on SF and fantasy. But along with the pleasure of devouring this marvelous literature came fear. I lived in a small town with a small library and I saw I would soon read the section dry. So to keep from running out of science fiction, I began writing my own. And because the mystery section adjoined the SF/Fantasy section, leading me to discover mysteries about the same time as SF, my stories tended to combine SF with mystery. They still do, resulting in supernatural mysteries and urban fantasy...with a noticeable fondness for cops. Vampire cop Garreth Mikaelian hunts killers in Blood Hunt and Bloodlinks (published together by Meisha Merlin as BloodWalk) and in Blood Games. I have future cops Janna Brill and Mama Maxwell in three novels (The Doppelganger Gambit, Dragon's Teeth, and Spider Play)space-going cops in Deadly Silents, werewolf cops in my novel Wilding Nights, and a ghost cop in Killer Karma.

Beginning Blood Games, Wilding Nights, Killer Karma and my African fantasy novel The Leopard's Daughter, my books are now being re-published in e-book editions.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Early Sci Fi / Mystery / Pulp, April 30, 2005

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This review is from: Doppelganger Gambit (Mass Market Paperback)

I just recently picked up a copy of this book and enjoyed it quite a bit.

The heroine is a weary cop thinking about leaving the job after her partner is seriously injured in a 'lion trap'. Her new partner Maxwell is a rule-breaker who likes to follow his intuition. They're up against a game-playing murderer who has found a new way to beat the system.

Many elements of this story will be familiar from cop movies, J.D. Robb's books, and so on, but it's a fun story anyhow.