Episode November 14, 2025 1 hr 29 min

Crowbar - Legacy of the Black Cube

From Myth of the 20th Century Myth of the 20th Century - "Only the truth is banned."

Set in the Cold War tensions of the early 1980s American West Coast, ‘Crowbar’ follows a cast of shadowy operatives working the between spaces of black market drugs, guns, and intelligence agency missions. Its author Andrew Edwards joins us tonight for a discussion of his latest work, and why the ‘NOIR’ genre of fiction speaks to men of our generation living in the midst of a rudderless empire in a morally ambiguous time, where good and evil transmogrify between the light and dark into an amorphous gray..

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- JL review of ‘King of Dogs’: https://www.jameslafond.com/kings-of-dogs-by-andrew-edwards

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-- References --

- King of Dogs, Edwards (2019)

- Exit Strategy, Smith (2019)

- Blade Runner, Scott (1982)

- First Blood, Kotcheff (1982)

- Blood Simple, Coen Brothers (1984)

- The Terminator, Cameron (1984)

- Fight Club, Fincher (1999)

- Silicon Valley, Judge (2014)

- Rambo - First Blood, Myth of the 20th Century (2017) - https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2017/12/13/rambo-first-blood/

- Jay Dyer - Laurel Canyon and the CIA Counter-Culture, Myth of the 20th Century (2018) - https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2018/07/11/jay-dyer-laurel-canyon-and-the-cia-counter-culture/

- King of Dogs: Life is the training ground for death, Edwards (2019) - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578608081?ascsubtag=srctok-f0b623cc22d1b727&btn_ref=srctok-f0b623cc22d1b727

- Soldiers of Reason - The RAND Corporation - with Thomas777, Myth of the 20th Century (2024) - https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2024/07/15/soldiers-of-reason-the-rand-corporation-with-thomas777/

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