Recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants and with works exhibited at the prestigious Biennale de Paris, New York's Whitney Museum, the de Menil Collection in Houston, and other venues, Bob 'Daddy-O' Wade has been 'keeping it weird' since 1961 when he arrived in Austin with his '51 custom Ford hot rod and his slicked-back hair. Primed to study art at the University of Texas, Wade's coif and dragster earned him his trademark moniker, and the abstract, welded sculptures he fashioned from automobile bumpers in his frat house basement laid the foundations for the distinctive, larger-than-life art pieces that would eventually make him famous.Daddy-O is the creator of the forty-foot iguana that perched atop the Lone Star CafE in New York City, the immense cowboy boots (entered in the Guinness Book of World Records) outside San Antonio's North Star Mall, and Dinosaur Bob, who graces the roof of the National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature in Abilene, Texas. He is widely recognized as one of the progenitors of the 'Cosmic Cowboy Culture' that emerged in Texas during the 1970s. Daddy-O's Book of Big-Ass Art features images of more than a hundred of Wade's most famous pieces, complete with the wild tales that lie behind the art, told in brief essays by both Wade and more than forty noted artists and writers familiar with Wade's work.

Robert Allison "Bob" Wade (1920-present) and H. Bill Miller (1920-61) penned their novels using the joint pseudonym of Wade Miller.Orson Welles' noir classic Touch of Evil was adapted from their novel, Badge of Evil. In Murder - Queen High, Barselow was used to having his orders obeyed in Azure City. But when he gave orders that the Queen must be found, he ran into unexpected opposition. For there were others determined to find the Queen . . .Determined to risk their sanity, their very lives, to find her. There was Faye Jordan - she of the sensuous figure and the mind to match. And there was Mr. Trim - the fabulous Mr. Trim . . . There was John Henry Conover, and the curvy, swervy girl called Sin, who had other things on their minds until a wounded mobster burst into their cottage and forced then to join the hunt. And when the waiter brought them the Queen of Diamonds instead of the tab at lunch the next day, they knew they were playing for keeps.

The Killer: Jake Farrow has spent his life hunting big gamehe's one of the best. His old friend Walter has him brought over from Africa for a special hunt, to track down and kill the armed robber responsible for the death of his son. Farrow reluctantly agrees, but is soon thrown into a mission more deadly than he bargained for when he meets the bank robber's Southern wife. Devil on Two Sticks: Steve Beck works for Pat Garland, the crime boss of San Diego. Garland suspects a traitor in his mob, and tells Beck to ferret him out. Beck has five suspects, but thinks the fink is Everett, Garland's lawyer--but is also falling in love with Everett's daughter. Torn, Beck finds he isn't as tough as he thinks he is.