- Print on Demand (Paperback): 268 pages
- Publisher: Blackmask.com (July 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1596540303
- ISBN-13: 978-1596540309
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,062,159 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Grand Adventure!, Nov 11 2005
By Kara J. Jorges "Avid Reader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: 03 Pirate of the Pacific and the Red Skull (Print on Demand (Paperback))
As Doc Savage and his five sidekicks sail the submarine "Hellfire" home from the Arctic, a nefarious plot unfolds in New York City. A friend of Doc's, Juan Mindoro, comes to him for help thwarting a plan to overthrow the government of the Luzon Union, a Pacific island nation. Doc and his men do battle with a motley crew of Asian pirates in New York and across the Pacific after Johnny, Long Tom, and Monk are taken captive by the pirate leader, Tom Too. Doc's crew again falls into Too's clutches on a remote island, and Doc takes to the jungle to rescue them. They battle the pirates at every turn until Doc outwits them at last and brings an end to the attempted coup d'êtat.
In The Red Skull, a man falls dead on Doc's doorstep after surviving several attempts on his life. Then the killers go after Monk in his laboratory, kidnapping his pretty blonde secretary, Lea Aster. Doc and the boys follow the kidnappers to a doomed dam-building project in the desert wilds of Arizona, where sabotage has bedeviled the project at every turn. Someone is trying to bankrupt the Mountain Desert Construction Company, and it's up to Doc to find out why-and save pretty blonde Lea from her captors!
Pirate of the Pacific was obviously written well before political correctness had taken hold, referring to the villains as yellow men or slant-eyes. I am continually impressed, however, by the way women are handled in these books. They're no shrinking violets, and Lea Aster is particularly feisty and unflappable. Never once do her captors so much as throw a mild scare into her, and she outwits them often, aiding Doc and his men in rescuing her.
While it is often obvious these books were written over 70 years ago, it's part of their charm. The fun and adventure contained within their pages is timeless. Once again, I have no choice but to highly recommend these books to anyone who loves a good, swashbuckling tale.
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