Juri, that's pretty much the way I remember the Monty Nash
novels, too. This discussion has caused me to drag out my
copy of 20TH CENTURY CRIME AND MYSTERY WRITERS (2nd ed.) and
look at the article I wrote on Jessup. I called the Monty
Nash novels "outrageously entertaining tongue-in-cheek spy
novels." I said that the action was literally non-stop and
that Nash was the "toughest spy in literature, a sort of
latter-day Race Williams." I added that Nash is always after
"the Reds." As he puts it, "There is only one enemy." Here's
a favorite line I quoted from THE SLAVERS: "It takes a lot of
man to shoot down someone in cold blood, especially a woman.
I'm a lot of man."
Spillane influence, anyone?
Bill Crider
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