Bøger af Jack Remick

Pacific Coast Highway - A BMW Mechanic. A troubled heiress. A red Ferrari. Murder. The City of Angels-Today. A neo-noir story about a love triangle getting very ugly. Jonny's trip to the dark side of love hits a bump when Bea's jealousy derails his career...

In California's Central Valley an epic love story plays out between Ricky, a seventeen year old Anglo boy and his Chicana girlfriend, Josie Delgado. Driven by social class mores to hide their love, Ricky and Josie are caught between two cultures: Josie's brother distrusts all Anglos, while Ricky's mother forbids him to cross the racial barrier. But the lovers don't listen. Josie will do anything for the boy she loves and loving Josie drives Ricky crazy. When her brother discovers Josie's involvement with Ricky, he sends her away, breaking Ricky's heart. Separated, the two teen-age lovers know there's only one way their story can end and Ricky won't be happy about it

The stories in Throwback open a window on characters living calm everyday lives but underneath that calm there's a violent, bloody, painful, suicidal world and a savage god waiting for them to make a mistake. The hurt oozes up driving each of these people to find a way out-- The kid with a heart murmur wants to be a Marine. A guy finds his lost sister but doesn't know how to handle a fallen angel. A woman with a fatal disease loses all her hair and doesn't want to live without it. Looking for love, a writer finds a demon muse who rips his heart out. A traveling salesman falls in love with a surgical nightmare. Throwback takes you step by step into a dark world where the light is just an illusion.

A woman and a man in a living facility as they age.

A dying poker king with one more game to play.A love-sick mechanic with Jesus issues.A mysterious black woman wearing gold chains.Money and sex, love and death and a showdown in the Sierra Nevada.

Black Madonna in Blue: In a film noir world of back-street hotels and suitcases full of money, two men duke it out for love but only one of them can win. Kress, the mechanic with magic hands falls for Falcon, a black Madonna looking for a knight. Grace Regis, the gambler, is a sick man who plays poker for body parts and blood and he won't let Falcon go. Then the ax falls...

Man Alone is set in and around a complex Seattle where Rat City meets the Billionaires' Club. Zene, a man alone, lives in a chaotic, sexually disruptive and violence-wrecked world. His life ruined after a chain of disappointments and falls-the fruits of his violent nature-Zene runs into Karizma, a love-creature from his past, and he's smitten again, knowing all the while that for him, there's no future in love. Not your basic romance, for sure.

In Ayahuantu, Castle is a hunted man until he meets Onorato.

To be a writer in America, you have to bleed. Eddie Iturbi, a young car-thief obsessed with the dark magic of Beat culture in a mythic San Francisco, sets off on a spaced-out crusade to connect with the Beat gods. En route Eddie links up with living legend Leo Franchetti, the last of the Beat poets. Leo sends Eddie to the Buzzard Cult, where a mysterious mentor reveals the writer''s ritual of blood and words. Changed and invigorated and back in the City, Eddie falls in love with a snake dancer at the Feathered Serpent. She can''t save him from Scarred Wanda, jealous bad-girl of literature, whose goal is to destroy Eddie before Jack Kerouac relays all the magical secrets of the literary universe. Immortality is just a book away. Will Eddie live long enough to write it?