--- James Reasoner <
james53@flash.net> wrote:
> As to whether they're any good or not, it's
been
> over thirty years since I
> read them. I seem to remember liking THE JUDAS
SPY
> a little better than SPY
> CASTLE. All those early Carters are
pretty
> entertaining if you don't set
> your expectations too high. They're nowhere
near
> the level of the Matt Helm
> books, or even the Sam Durell series.
I recently read my first Killmaster -- BERLIN -- and thought
it was great fun, for what it was.
Interested readers may want to check out
http://www.teleport-city.com/inkings/pulps/nick_carter01.html.
That same site also has reviews of some other pulp series,
most notably Eric Olsen's 'Black Samurai' series, which I
have never seen, but which sounds interesting.
doug
===== Doug Bassett
dj_bassett@yahoo.com
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