- Hardcover: 168 pages
- Publisher: Subterranean Press (February 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1892284995
- ISBN-13: 978-1931081054
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
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From Publishers Weekly
In this first hardcover edition of a 1968 paperback original (titled Two for Tanner), Evan Tanner is "the spy who never sleeps," a Korean War vet whose head injury has destroyed the sleep center in his brain. Never having to sleep, Tanner has plenty of time to become interested in hopeless causes, help oppressed groups, learn obscure languages and travel to exotic locales. The U.S. government has used his undercover talents in the past, but in this fourth novel in the Tanner series he's working for himself. Missing in Thailand is his latest girlfriend, singer Tuppence Ngawa, who is half African and half American and speaks in a bizarre '60s jive. Tuppence and the jazz musicians with whom she was on tour have been kidnapped by Communist rebels, shortly after a major burglary of the Thai royal jewelry collection. Tanner rushes to Tuppence's rescue, only to be taken prisoner by another rebel group in the dense Thai jungle. Tanner escapes from a bamboo cage perched in a tree with the help of a small, comical Thai who believes that somehow Tanner can help him finally find a woman who will relieve him of his virginity. This early Block novel is very much of its time, very '60s, with eerie echoes of the treatment of American POWs in Vietnam. It's still a great pleasure today. (Nov. 8)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
Evan Tanner can't sleep. Ever. Which gives him plenty of free time to get involved in lots of interesting endeavors in all sorts of exotic locales.
Now Tanner's in Thailand with a partially baked plan and a butterfly net, hoping to snare a beautiful missing chanteuse who's metamorphosed into an international jewel thief. Tanner hopes everyone will buy his disguise as a rare butterfly researcher. And everyone does . . .
Except the guerilla band holding him captive. They intend to remove his head when the sun rises, so Tanner must put his fate in the hands of a randy Thai youth who will do anything for a woman, even set a suspected spy free. Soon they're running through the jungle together, chased by bandits, soldiers, and yellow fever, and racing headlong into the heart of darkness—and into the flames of war.
--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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Not bad for Block's Tanner, July 30 2001
By Keith Nichols - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Scoreless Thai (Hardcover)
According to the author's note in the back of this book, "The Scoreless Thai," is the reprint of Block's 1986 novel "Two for Tanner." Block obviously likes puns in his titles and was, he says, puzzled and disappointed at the pointless title devised by the 1986 publisher. Anyway, the story has to do with Evan Tanner's adventures while venturing through southeast Asia in search of his girl friend, a jazz singer abducted during a tour. The title "The Scoreless Thai" derives from the traveling companion Tanner acquires -- a young Thai lad aching to lose his virginity. (Or did the young lad derive from the title?) The deal is that for having helped Tanner escape imprisonment, Tanner will see that this deflowering is accomplished. This is an amusing little novel with plenty of action. It doesn't suffer from the excessive cuteness Block can sometimes employ.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Classic Evan Tanner, Sep 30 2007
By Daniel Perrin "avidreader" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Scoreless Thai (Mass Market Paperback)
Barry Eisler, Vince Flynn, and Brad Thor fans will love this Evan Tanner series, if they can keep their sense of humor and have some notion of what the world was like during the Cold War. I read the entire series in a heartbeat, every book in the series is book-candy.You must, however, read the first in the series first, The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep.
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The Scoreless Thai, Jun 16 2008
By FaithWilson82 "Stanton Stomper" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Scoreless Thai (Mass Market Paperback)
Block delivers as usual. Well written, funny, poiniant, really captures the world of the late 60's.
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