I decided to commemorate Gold Medal Month (we are a
recognized minority, aren't we?) by reading some more Aarons.
For a first assignment, I chose Assignment-Burma Girl.
GM number: K1423 Published: 1961 Price: 40 cents
Cover: A babe with something exotic draped around her lower
half and showing her bare back (significantly dimpled) while
she arranges her hair. She is kneeling.
Front blurb: Two Americans vanish mysteriously in the
cold-war jungle of Southeast Asia, and the call goes out for
Sam Durell. A suspenseful novel of counter-intelligence by
Edward S. Aarons.
Back blurb: The First man had been given up for dead long ago
and in another country.... They sent the Second Man to find
him.... That's when the Third man came into the picture. His
name was Sam Durell, and he was a tougher cookie than the
other two. An ex-whore with 300 million dollars's worth of
influence sent him up the Irrawaddy and into the boondocks to
bring them back -- whole or in pieces.
Review to follow if I finish it and it's good, or at least
half-good. Aarons writes straight sentences with good action
verbs.
Best regards,
MrT
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from old materials, but the battered tenement may, with care,
be long sustained by props" -- From Becklard's
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