A fairly short Ed Noon novel at 122 pages. First published in 1977, this is one of the later efforts in this series about a hardboiled private eye who eventually morphed into spy fiction.
I enjoyed it for its placement of Noon in Rome and for its action-packed sequences. Properly humorous, the story never really went anywhere plot wise although it was fun to read. It is filled with secret arrests, shootouts, bombs, mysterious murders, kidnapping, interrogation, and battles with Amazons.
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Noon Visits Rome And Everything Exploded
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2016Verified Purchase