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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Randall of the super-duper excellent Spy Guys and Gals has written a spy novel and it's available to Kindle Unlimited users for free.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Len Deighton has died. RIP, legend.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Some reference material for you. 😀

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

MERCY: A LADY'S VENGEANCE by Dick Remington, from @pointofimpactbooks.bsky.social. Pistoleros meet Penthouse in this violent and raunchy Western in which the titular Mercy goes on a roaring rampage of revenge against the villains who massacred her family and while having as much sex as possible.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Reading two very different but equally awesome and delightful books at the same time by two of my favorite authors: @pointofimpactbooks.bsky.social and @jenniferbrozek.bsky.social.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The juxtaposition of the two sentences is peak capitalism.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only. It has to be one of these two.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I like it when heroes fight dirty. As Nikolai Dante said

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Shooing away the doom and gloom by visiting post-apocalyptic America, WWII theaters of operations, and Mongolia. With me are the Cerberus crew, dinosaurs, an SS she-wolf, Aleister Crowley, a mad emperor, Chinese river pirates, 5 tough bastards stealing Hitler's train, and the sexy Gun Honey.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Feeling a lot of helpless rage at the state of the world right now, so re-acquainting myself with Michael McGill and Spider Jerusalem.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Thank Fuck, and James Gunn, and (never thought I'd say this) David Zaslav that the new Superman movie ISN'T Man of "Supes breaking Zod's neck" Steel. I like Zack Snyder but I think MoS was a Snyder movie not a comic book movie and certainly not a Superman movie.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Quote post this with a picture of the aircraft you'd accept as a bribe

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Current read: GUNSHIPS #2: FIREFORECE by Jack Hamilton Teed.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I'm sure the papal frontrunners are all swell guys, but I'm very hurt that Brother Diaz isn't even considered. What do you think, @joeabercrombie.com? Anyway, eagerly waiting for THE DEVILS to drop into my Kindle on 6 May.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 1 #comics #comicbooks

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Found out today that Nick Santora, showrunner of REACHER, is a thriller novelist too. Added FIFTEEN DIGITS, his latest, to the TBR. Gonna dive in as soon I kick this fucking flu's ass.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

May 2025 is going to be a great month for the "bastards-come-together-to-defeat-even-bigger-bastards" genre of fantasy. @decastell.bsky.social's THE MALEVOLENT EIGHT and @joeabercrombie.com's THE DEVILS are both releasing in May.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Starting a re-read of one of my most favorite Nick Carter Killmaster novels: THE INCA DEATH SQUAD. Written by the incomparable Martin Cruz Smith, this book sees Carter reluctantly chaperoning a disgusting Soviet official whose assassination would be the signal for a ChiCom insurgency in Chile.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Been in a funk lately, thanks to personal and work-related problems. Couldn't concentrate on reading or writing. Picked up Paul Erdman's seminal financial thriller THE BILLION DOLLAR SURE THING, winner of the Best First Novel Edgar, today. Loving it. Hope the funk dissipates soon.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

What if Bond's Q was a CIA agent specializing in Unusual Killing Devices (UKDs)? What if he had a KGB counterpart? What if they both wanted out, and the only way out was to kill each other's superiors? The answers to these "What ifs" lie in the extremely enjoyable Mancuso & Borgneff series.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

In the foreword to THE LOSERS: BOOK TWO, Ian Rankin talks of @andydiggle.bsky.social's anger at "all the world's corruption and bullswagger". His characters are horrified and disgusted by P2OG and PAM - harebrained, dangerous schemes cooked up by wonks during the heyday of the War on Terror.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Re-reading THE LOSERS by @andydiggle.bsky.social and @jockbsky.bsky.social. Our intrepid heroes are engaged in a shootout with the traitor Roque in The Gherkin, London. The London Underground chase is about to begin. Hoo-boy, what a ride! What. a. ride!!

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Late 90s-early oughts' @2000ad.bsky.social comics were not always politically correct, but they were helluva fun. Case in point: SPACEGIRLS, created by Jason Brashill and James Stevens. @dvbishop.com, wish there were more stories starring Deep, Wide-open, Inner, Hyper, and Free.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Just started reading the Carl Hiassen-meets-Quentin Tarantino-esque crime thriller THE PRICE YOU PAY, by Aidan Truehn, a pseudonym of @harkaway.bsky.social. Hoo-boy, what a ride! What a wonderful, wonderful book. Can't wait to read the sequel SEVEN DEMONS.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Started re-reading IMPERIAL BLACK, the second Nikolai Dante novel written by @dvbishop.com and published by the late, much-lamented Black Flame imprint of Black Library. An wonderful adventure of Dante, Spatch, and Flint, full of raunch, violence, quips, the Crest's snarks, and a lot of heart.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

@reganmacarthur.bsky.social something of interest to you - a missile version of Artemis.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The cover and a panel of CANNON by Wally Wood. Published in a newspaper distributed exclusively to US military bases around the world, and thus free from restrictions - which meant it was full of brutal violence and gorgeous naked women. #comics #wallywood

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

SILENT DRAGON is one of best cyberpunk action comics I've read. Written by @andydiggle.bsky.social and illustrated by Leinil Francis Yu, published by DC's late and lamented Wildstorm imprint.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Vigga the she-wolf, one of THE DEVILS in Joe Abercrombie's new book, out next year from Gollancz in the UK and @torbooks.bsky.social in the US.

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Only a few more hours to go before this bad boy from @hardcasecrime.bsky.social drops in my Kindle inbox. #crimefiction #thrillers

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

#BooksinmyLibrary Day 1. Starting this afresh, here on Bsky. We begin with a classic: FUNERAL IN BERLIN by Len Deighton. #thrillers #spyfiction

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Quarry, Max Allan Collins' signature character, returns in another adventure from @hardcasecrime.bsky.social on 5th November. (The release date makes me smile: November 5 is the date of the US election and there's a Quarry novel called Quarry's Vote.)

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Two great books landing on my Kindle next week.

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