Opium Flower by Dan Cushman. Terrance J. Ryan loses his job in San
Francisco, and the F.B.I. offers him another one. Go to Bangkok and trace down
the opium smugglers. Typical of Cushman’s characters, Ryan is very similar to
Dougherty and other characters in these tales. He’s big, tough, and knows the
Orient (or jungle, or island). There is always Chinese involved, and whether we
are in Bangkok or Hong Kong we recognize the same words, as if we never leave
one place for another. And usually there is another white man after the same
thing our hero is after. Even though he’s tough, he gets captured and beaten a
lot, but this adds to the adventure. The author got his start in pulp
magazines, writing jungle and South Sea stories for JUNGLE STORIES and
ADVENTURE. Although he turned his hand to westerns, it is still these adventure
novels that are his best. Another good story.
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