These stories, written from 1976 to 1981, and appearing in various men’s magazines and other outlets, offer Ketchum readers a look into this author’s formative years. In ’95 the Brits at Headline came along and I did.This edition of Jack Ketchum’s Broken on the Wheel of Sex: The Jerzy Livingston Years is the most complete edition of the “Stroup” stories ever collected together.

I wrote back and apologized and thanked him for bringing the error to my attention and promised that if the book ever went into another printing anywhere I’d fix it. I checked it out and he was right of course. He went on to say that he was in fact a paramedic and in situation, she’d be far better off in the hands of a trained ambulance crew than with a bunch of doctors. She hoped they were doctors, reads the line.Ī few months after the book was published I got a letter from a fan who said he’d enjoyed the read immensely. “There was one…change I made…for the British paperback.Īt the very end of the original, in the ambulance, shot up with painkillers and speculating through her haze on whether these people who are treating her are paramedics or doctors. This edition is slightly different than the original American edition, but not as complete as The Unexpurgated Edition.įrom the Afterword to The Unexpurgated Edition (edited to avoid possible spoilers): And the way he plans it, he and Carole and Lee are all going to do a little traveling together…

Because it points the way down the road for him.

Her lover, Lee, has the baseball bat but she’s the one with the rock – and the nerve and desperation to crush a man’s skull and pitch him off a mountain. On the sunny mountainside, above the creek, that’s where Carole has the courage to solve her problem. If the courts can’t protect her and the police can’t keep him away, how else will she ever be free? The only way to solve the problem of her ex – drunken, sadistic, clever. So far.Ĭarole doesn’t want to do it but murder seems like the only solution. He hasn’t hit back yet, though the urge is strong. The kids who trash his fence, the dog that dumps in his yard, the guys who give him stress in the bar – they’re all in his book. Released as Joyride in the United States. Gonazalez Bryan Smith Wrath James White Nate Southard Ryan Harding and Shane McKenzie 2

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