The Kitchen Confidential of the State Department.

You've seen them on the news, looking competent and concerned in their navy suits. They're in Beijing, Riyadh, Nairobi, Geneva, and of course Washington, DC. They look uneasy on camera. When they speak (which is as little as possible), it's with caution, hemmed in by protocol and the fear of causing an incident.

These are the diplomats.

Opening up a famously tight-lipped profession, State Department veteran Todd Pierce takes you backstage at the embassy, sharing what it's like to serve as a working-level diplomat.

Funny, revealing, pointed, and deeply human, Attaché Case tells what it feels like to represent the celebrity country-the US-a place everyone thinks they know and has an opinion about.

The Kitchen Confidential of the State Department.

You've seen them on the news, looking competent and concerned in their navy suits. They're in Beijing, Riyadh, Nairobi, Geneva, and of course Washington, DC. They look uneasy on camera. When they speak (which is as little as possible), it's with caution, hemmed in by protocol and the fear of causing an incident.

These are the diplomats.

Opening up a famously tight-lipped profession, State Department veteran Todd Pierce takes you backstage at the embassy, sharing what it's like to serve as a working-level diplomat.

Funny, revealing, pointed, and deeply human, Attaché Case tells what it feels like to represent the celebrity country-the US-a place everyone thinks they know and has an opinion about.

Bigger, tougher, and more weaselly than ever, Weasels Ripped My Flesh! returns in new full-color editions (including its first-ever hardcover publication), with additional content and commentary, sensational illustrations by masters of pulp art, and outrageous, over-the-top vintage advertising of the men's adventure era. If you've only seen the previous edition, you really haven't seen Weasels at all.

Over a decade ago, MensPulpMags.com's Robert Deis and New Texture's Wyatt Doyle teamed up with Josh Alan Friedman (Black Cracker) to blow the lid of hard-boiled fiction's best-kept secret: Vintage men's adventure magazines, aka MAMs. The resulting anthology, Weasels Ripped My Flesh!, was an instant success, inaugurating the acclaimed multi-volume Men's Adventure Library series and sparking fresh interest in some of the wildest pulp fiction and illustration art ever published, most unseen since their original publication decades ago.

From the jungles to the deserts to the mean city streets, MAMs of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s left no male fantasy of the era unexplored, offering true, first-hand accounts of frontline battlefield action, white-knuckle clashes between man and beast, and spicy tales of sadistic frauleins, black widows, and tropical she-goddesses hungry for companionship. Plus salacious-if mostly bogus-exposés of then-shocking subjects like free love, the Beat Generation, homosexuality, LSD, and the secret horniness hidden in calypso lyrics.

Now available in big (450+ color pages!), full-color hardcover and softcover editions, this book is your pulp passport to a more savage time, when adventure was everywhere, every dame was a femme fatale, and manly men battled small mammals bare-handed.

Bigger, tougher, and more weaselly than ever, Weasels Ripped My Flesh! returns in new full-color editions (including its first-ever hardcover publication), with additional content and commentary, sensational illustrations by masters of pulp art, and outrageous, over-the-top vintage advertising of the men's adventure era. If you've only seen the previous edition, you really haven't seen Weasels at all.

Over a decade ago, MensPulpMags.com's Robert Deis and New Texture's Wyatt Doyle teamed up with Josh Alan Friedman (Black Cracker) to blow the lid of hard-boiled fiction's best-kept secret: Vintage men's adventure magazines, aka MAMs. The resulting anthology, Weasels Ripped My Flesh!, was an instant success, inaugurating the acclaimed multi-volume Men's Adventure Library series and sparking fresh interest in some of the wildest pulp fiction and illustration art ever published, most unseen since their original publication decades ago.

From the jungles to the deserts to the mean city streets, MAMs of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s left no male fantasy of the era unexplored, offering true, first-hand accounts of frontline battlefield action, white-knuckle clashes between man and beast, and spicy tales of sadistic frauleins, black widows, and tropical she-goddesses hungry for companionship. Plus salacious-if mostly bogus-exposés of then-shocking subjects like free love, the Beat Generation, homosexuality, LSD, and the secret horniness hidden in calypso lyrics.

Now available in big (450+ color pages!), full-color hardcover and softcover editions, this book is your pulp passport to a more savage time, when adventure was everywhere, every dame was a femme fatale, and manly men battled small mammals bare-handed.

The men's adventure magazines of the 1950s, '60s and '70s left no male fantasy or interest unexplored. Among the mags' war stories, exotic adventure yarns, accounts of clashes between man and beast, and spicy tales of sadistic frauleins and tropical queens hungry for companionship were stories that added an extra dose of weird to the equation, emphasizing supernatural encounters, monstrous cryptids, demonic death cults, killer robots, vampirism, and, naturally, atomic werewolves and man-eating plants. Action-packed, larger than life, and illustrated by top talents in the field, including iconic Famous Monsters cover artist Basil Gogos and EC's Jack Davis! Edited by Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle, with contributions by Mike Chomko and Stefan Dziemianowicz. This latest release in The Men's Adventure Library series is available in softcover and expanded hardcover editions from New Texture. Both editions are fully illustrated, with context and commentary supplied by the editors.

Walter Kaylin, come back! - Mario Puzo, author of THE GODFATHER

He looked like a divinity student, always buttoned up. Then the stories would come in. They were special ... seamless and outrageous and wonderful. I let him do whatever he wanted and he rarely, if ever, disappointed. He really deserves a tribute. I think of him as a treasure.

- Bruce Jay Friedman (Stern, Lucky Bruce),

Kaylin's editor at MEN, MALE, and TRUE ACTION

Scores of great authors wrote for men's adventure magazines (aka MAMs)-Elmore Leonard, Jim Thompson, Richard Matheson, Lawrence Block, and Harlan Ellison, to name a few. But the wordsmith writers for MAN'S WORLD and TRUE ACTION envied most was Walter Kaylin.

Leaving an indelible mark on three decades of sweat-soaked pulp fiction, Walter Kaylin tackled testosterone-fueled subjects from Westerns to war, secret agents to sex sirens, Nazis to noir. His frequently over-the-top plots and characters scaled new heights of ingenuity and invention, while setting the standard for the kind of unapologetic savagery and excess that made MAMs notorious-both then and now.

Robert Deis of MensPulpMags.com and Wyatt Doyle (STOP REQUESTED), editors of the acclaimed Men's Adventure Library series, rescue a whopping 15 high-intensity Kaylin classics (16 in the expanded hardcover) from pulp fiction purgatory, along with jaw-dropping illustrations from their original magazine publication ... plus reminiscences by Kaylin, his family, and his former editor, writer Bruce Jay Friedman.

HE-MEN, BAG MEN, & NYMPHOS rips the lid off pulp's best-kept secret to introduce Kaylin's unique brand of tension and tough-guy thrills to a new generation of readers. But be warned: These are not stories for the delicate, or faint of heart. HE-MEN, BAG MEN, & NYMPHOS hits like a clenched fist; get yours or get out of the way!

Walter Kaylin, come back! - Mario Puzo, author of THE GODFATHER

He looked like a divinity student, always buttoned up. Then the stories would come in. They were special ... seamless and outrageous and wonderful. I let him do whatever he wanted and he rarely, if ever, disappointed. He really deserves a tribute. I think of him as a treasure.

- Bruce Jay Friedman (Stern, Lucky Bruce),

Kaylin's editor at MEN, MALE, and TRUE ACTION

Scores of great authors wrote for men's adventure magazines (aka MAMs)-Elmore Leonard, Jim Thompson, Richard Matheson, Lawrence Block, and Harlan Ellison, to name a few. But the wordsmith writers for MAN'S WORLD and TRUE ACTION envied most was Walter Kaylin.

Leaving an indelible mark on three decades of sweat-soaked pulp fiction, Walter Kaylin tackled testosterone-fueled subjects from Westerns to war, secret agents to sex sirens, Nazis to noir. His frequently over-the-top plots and characters scaled new heights of ingenuity and invention, while setting the standard for the kind of unapologetic savagery and excess that made MAMs notorious-both then and now.

Robert Deis of MensPulpMags.com and Wyatt Doyle (STOP REQUESTED), editors of the acclaimed Men's Adventure Library series, rescue a whopping 15 high-intensity Kaylin classics (16 in the expanded hardcover) from pulp fiction purgatory, along with jaw-dropping illustrations from their original magazine publication ... plus reminiscences by Kaylin, his family, and his former editor, writer Bruce Jay Friedman.

HE-MEN, BAG MEN, & NYMPHOS rips the lid off pulp's best-kept secret to introduce Kaylin's unique brand of tension and tough-guy thrills to a new generation of readers. But be warned: These are not stories for the delicate, or faint of heart. HE-MEN, BAG MEN, & NYMPHOS hits like a clenched fist; get yours or get out of the way!