PaperBack: “Back Country”

Part of a series honoring the late author and blogger Bill Crider.



Back Country, by William Fuller (Dell, 1954). This novel launched Fuller’s series starring Brad Dolan, who is described by The Thrilling Detective as a “hard-boiled adventurer, smuggler and wanderer … a sort of pre-Travis McGee Travis McGee and certainly no stranger to trouble. Or violence. Or babes.” Five more Dolan yarns were released as paperback originals over the next half-decade, the series concluding with 1959's Tight Squeeze.

Cover illustration by Stanley Borack.