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Dangerous Dana

Author: Doris Miller

Publisher: Hill Publications, Queens, New York

Date: 1999

Discovered at: Half-Price Books, Westport

Representative Quotes:

“The crowd gathers around again and tries to stop Dana from beating Rose with the baseball bat, but it is hard! It is hard to stop Dana from beating Rose with with baseball bat, because Dana swings the baseball bat at anyone who tries to stop her or get in her way! Nobody wants to get hit with the baseball bat!” (page 54)

“Dana violently fights Mark using kick boxing and Hapkido! She punches Mark! She throws several straight blows to his face again! She elbows Mark! She kung fu’s Mark! She knees Mark! She knees him real hard again and again in the groin area!” (page 227)

In Dangerous Dana, Doris Miller’s astonishing novel of vengeance and exclamation points, styles collide with all the messy force of “Dangerous” Dana Brown’s hammer cracking into the skull of the Hispanic plumber whose driving pissed her off.

Here’s a revenge fantasy that is written with the just-the-facts tone of a police report, the obsessive repetition of a Dick and Jane primer, and the hopped-up ferocity of someone shouting on a bus.