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Call Me a Cab–The last fantastic Donald E. Westlake novel arrives… without a crime

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March 7, 2022

Review by C.J. Bunce

First of all, by all accounts McDonald’s has never sold onion rings.

My favorite works by popular creators are the ones that are frequently what the multitudes rarely put on a greatest hits list. Like Philip K. Dick’s In Milton Lumky Territory or Stephen King’s Joyland. Now we have Donald E. Westlake′s last novel Call Me a Cab (available now here at Amazon) a heretofore unpublished novel from 1977 (unpublished except in a briefer version in a serialized magazine edition ages ago). It’s a novel ahead of its time full of 1970s attitude, with realistic, thoughtful characters, without cliché or canned, artificial controversy, and, although it’s from Hard Case Crime, there’s not a single crime in sight for 3,000 miles. And it’s as riveting as any of his previous brilliant works.

So what about the onion rings? Back to that in a moment.

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First look–Galavant’s Joshua Sasse co-stars with Tori Anderson in CW series No Tomorrow

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July 4, 2016

Joshua Sasse came out of nowhere last year to headline ABC’s groundbreaking fantasy comedy musical Gallivant. Sasse’s work as title character Gallivant proved he’s an actor to keep an eye on in future performances. The CW Network has begun to run previews of a new series featuring Sasse. He will co-star in a new apocalypse-themed drama comedy from the CW Network, No Tomorrow, with Tori Anderson. Anderson has appeared in several genre series in her short career so far, including Tru Calling, Smallville, The 4400, Flashpoint, Warehouse 13, and Reign.

From the first extended preview, No Tomorrow is clearly in the realm of The Last Man on Earth, and has some elements in common with ABC’s-now CW’s Supergirl–a young female lead struggling with work and looking for that next big thing to change her life. For Anderson’s character Evie it is Sasse’s character Xavier who just might be that change for her–she is instantly infatuated with Xavier, but he believes the world is soon coming to an end. Is he serious or just crazy? Xavier is set to take Evie along on his own bucket list pursuit. Will she go along willingly?

The only negative with the trailer for No Tomorrow? It reveals so much of the story, one can only hope what is revealed is in the pilot and much more is to come. If this is a preview of season one, then we may be seeing the entire plot in the span of a few minutes. Check out the preview for yourself:

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