White Bizango [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Stephen Gallagher (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books (September 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1843954419
• ISBN-13: 978-1843954415
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,536,926 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Novelist, screenwriter and director, born in Salford, Lancashire and specialising in contemporary suspense.

STEPHEN GALLAGHER was 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, Stephen Gallagher's screen work began with Doctor Who and includes miniseries adaptations of his novels Chimera and Oktober, which he also directed. He created and wrote for both the British and American versions of Eleventh Hour, which starred Patrick Stewart in the UK and Rufus Sewell in Jerry Bruckheimer's CBS remake. His most recent novel is The Kingdom of Bones and his next will be The Suicide Hour, both from Random House.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Slow & moody thriller, July 3, 2009

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J. Shurin "carnivore" (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: White Bizango (Paperback)

A 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.

5.0 out of 5 stars Sensational Story, May 7, 2007

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James N Simpson (Gold Coast, QLD Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: White Bizango (Hardcover)

About a month ago I came across a brilliant short story called Magpie in a various author anthology called Final Shodows. I have been eagerly looking for other work by Gallagher which disappointingly, even though he seems to have written a substantial amount of novels and short stories is a bit hard to come across on the shelves. His publishers really need to pick up their act with distribution but anyway I'm getting off the point, White Bizango is the first of his novels that I have managed to come across and I am definitely going to keep searching for the rest as it is pure quality. I especially enjoyed the death point of view from the corpse's viewpoint chapters (without giving away what's going on here) it is a unique and sensational read. Definitely get this book, (the cover picture of the version I have has nothing to do with the story, nor does the blurb on the back really indicate what it is about, so don't be put off by it if you've got the same one). It is I guess not that much longer in length than a short story but it is still great value for money.

Police officer John Lafcadio comes across a weird suspect while investigating a shopping centre child abduction case. Barely escaping with his life and only because of the knowledge of two police officers specialising in cult crimes he is determined to track down the man responsible who is also leaving a trail of terrified victims in his wake.