With easily identifiable and universally sleazy bad guys - drugdealers, Middle East terrorists and dirty commies, to name just a few- these might be the elements of the latest "Rambo" movie. In factthey're the formula for a genre of books that has invaded the marketwith the force of, well, The Avenger, The Cutthroat Cannibals andCody's Army.
Welcome to men's action-adventure fiction, a specialty in which16 publishers now compete in the marketplace with 66 differentseries. Last year, the classification represented 4.3 percent ofsales for the U.S. paperback market. One …
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