It says “An Adult Western” on the front cover and boy, is it ever!
Back in the late 70’s a genre of “sexed-up” Western novels came to be. It started with Jake Logan’s “Slocum” series and then many followed after that.
The “Raider & Doc” books appeared on the scene in the early 80’s and lasted for quite a while. THE MAN WHO BIT SNAKES was one of the earliest books in the series, back in the days when the artwork was as attractive as what you are seeing here. The J. D. Hardin books were especially fun because they had larger than life plots, kind of like THE WILD, WILD WEST.
Raider (just “Raider”) and Doc Weatherbee were Pinkerton Agents who always managed to get into the strangest predicaments and bed a few ladies along the way.
Playboy Press went out of business and the series went over to Berkely Books, who gave them dismal covers. The books went on until the character of Doc Weatherbee retired and Raider got his own series. Raider’s farewell book later on was THE END OF THE TRAIL.
THE MAN WHO BIT SNAKES was a particularly good early entry in the series. The book you see here was autographed to me by its author.
Jake Logan and J. D. Hardin were not real people; writers came and went from the series, but these author/house names never reflected changes. Couldn’t say that about the writing style, though.
If you’re going to hunt these books down, try finding these early ones (the ones WITHOUT numbers on them). If you like bawdy entertainment and cowboy humor, you could do a lot worse than the Raider and Doc books.
Back in the late 70’s a genre of “sexed-up” Western novels came to be. It started with Jake Logan’s “Slocum” series and then many followed after that.
The “Raider & Doc” books appeared on the scene in the early 80’s and lasted for quite a while. THE MAN WHO BIT SNAKES was one of the earliest books in the series, back in the days when the artwork was as attractive as what you are seeing here. The J. D. Hardin books were especially fun because they had larger than life plots, kind of like THE WILD, WILD WEST.
Raider (just “Raider”) and Doc Weatherbee were Pinkerton Agents who always managed to get into the strangest predicaments and bed a few ladies along the way.
Playboy Press went out of business and the series went over to Berkely Books, who gave them dismal covers. The books went on until the character of Doc Weatherbee retired and Raider got his own series. Raider’s farewell book later on was THE END OF THE TRAIL.
THE MAN WHO BIT SNAKES was a particularly good early entry in the series. The book you see here was autographed to me by its author.
Jake Logan and J. D. Hardin were not real people; writers came and went from the series, but these author/house names never reflected changes. Couldn’t say that about the writing style, though.
If you’re going to hunt these books down, try finding these early ones (the ones WITHOUT numbers on them). If you like bawdy entertainment and cowboy humor, you could do a lot worse than the Raider and Doc books.
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