- Print on Demand (Paperback): 284 pages
- Publisher: Blackmask.com (November 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1596541393
- ISBN-13: 978-1596541399
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 440 g
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Action that's over the top and non-stop. Whew!, Nov 28 2004
By Tom Bruce - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: 12 the Mystic Mullah and Red Snow (Print on Demand (Paperback))
As a fan of Doc Savage, I consider myself fortunate to have collected all of the Bantam Paperback reprints of the original 181 Doc Savage Magazines. Written by Lester Dent, under the pen name of Kenneth Robeson, the pulp magazine was published as a monthly beginning in 1933 to 1949. (For the last few years it was a quarterly.) In 1964, Bantam began their series of paperbacks, which ran for 26 years. As time allows, I will give brief descriptions/reviews of the entire series. Previously, when reviewing the book The Lost Oasis, #6 in the series, I mentioned that most of the action was in the last third of the book. In The Mystic Mullah, #9 in the Bantam Series, creator Robeson starts the action immediately and keeps it up nearly non-stop. In fact, the constant, on-going battle, mostly with guns, seems almost beyond the descriptive powers of Robeson. At times, it is a complicated mess of duplication that becomes tiring to wade through. What kept me reading was to learn what was causing the green, fog-like snakes that caused severe burning to everyone they touched, ending in each of the victims dying with a broken neck. Similarly I wanted to know what was causing the green apparition known as the Mystic Mullah: an Oriental, green head, floating in space as it commanded its nefarious troops. Although the villains in the series seem other-wordly at times, Robeson always gives us a logical explanation in the resolution, and I was curious as to how he would explain these green monstrosities. The action begins in New York City, and following gun battles on the streets of Manhattan, at an abandoned factory, at a closed-for-the-season amusement park in New Jersey and a condemned Yacht Club on the Hudson River, the gunplay and mysterious green fog-like beings take flight, followed by Doc, to Russia's Siberia where Doc is jailed for spying. Then the chase is off to Tanan, a fictitious country somewhere in Southeast Asia. Throughout the book, at least two, sometimes all, of Doc's assistants are in dire straits. This is adventure packed pulp fiction, but nowhere near the best of the series.
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