Aside from Donald Hamiltons I have a few Gold Medals. I
decided to see if Lionel White's writing was that bad. It
is.
Title: DEATH TAKES THE BUS
First Printing, April 1957 Copyright: 1957
# 663
Front blurb: The Loaded bus sped into the night with a
kiler in the driver's seat
Back Cover:
"Here is the latest from Lionel White, DEATH TAKES THE BUS -
a tale of men whose tools are guns , whose wage wage is
death. The plan was well made. The bus carrying Hardin to the
death house was commandeered on schedule. Hardin, free of
handcuffs, backed by his number one thug, forced the bus out
into the desert toward the rendezvous with the black sedan.
Then the plan exploded. The sand storm rose -- one of the
worst in Southern California's history -- and the bus mired
down helplessly. Hardin's gunman raped a girl. The bus driver
was shot to death. And - most dangerous of all -- courage
flamed in the shocked passengers. Weaponless, silent, but as
one, they struck back against the men of violence -- and paid
them off in their own brutal coin."
The back cover is a lot more exciing than the book and pretty
inaccurate. The 124 page book takes the first 36 pages to
just describe the characters.
We have given good beginnings. How about a bad first
paragraph?
"It is true that you can take twelve human beings who may
find themselves at the same place at the same time and will
have a problem. Each will be thoroughly convinced that his
particular problems should take precedence over the problems
of others." Mark
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