Curt Stone #3: “The Frogman
Assassination” by Jack Seward. A Japanese ex CIC agent has gone over to the
Chinese, and attempts to assassinate the Japanese Emperor; instead he kills the
Japanese Prime Minister. Colonel Gilbert of CIC wants Stone to find the killer,
nicknamed Pork, and kill him. It isn’t an easy task, as Pork was a shrewd
agent, and knew how to avoid capture. However, he had a couple Achilles heels,
one being good whiskey, the other blonde white girls. Stone puts his network of
contacts on the lookout in the bar districts, using a couple blondes as bait.
This was another good story, a little better than the first two, but Curt Stone
is not as tough as our other Tokyo private eye, Burns Bannion. Maybe he should
have hired Bannion to do the job. A fun read, regardless.
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