Curt Stone #4: “The Chinese
Pleasure Girl” by Jack Seward. Curt Stone’s Far East Investigations is hired by
an ex American CIC agent to find out who is trying to sabotage his bars in
Yokosuka. A pretty good plot, with a nice bit of action, and we see a lot of
Yokusuka. It’s a fun read, but we still have the main problems with this
author. He’s trying to teach us the Japanese language in a fiction novel. We
get dialogue in Japanese and repeated in English, which distracts from the flow
of the story; plus, just when something is about to happen, he gives us a page
or two of documentary on some aspect of Japan, its history, or a subject he
wants us to know about Japan. By the time we get back to the scene of action
we’ve forgotten what was happening. It slows the pace of the story drastically.
It’s a good series, and the interaction between the main characters is fun.,
I’m just not interested in learning the language, and I can look up whatever
information I need on Japan. The author would have been better off sticking to
the action.
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