Mindanao Pearl By Alan Caillou. David Calib’s father
sends him after a thief named Smith that stole from his San Francisco company.
Reports put Smith somewhere in the Pacific islands around Mindanao. David is to
locate Smith and turn him over to the police in Manila; a simple task, though
David isn’t used to roughing it. A few years in the Army, but he was more
accustomed to the finer things in life. Things are not as easy, as his father
let on. Arriving in Mindanao, he’s mistaken for Smith’s cohort, a man after
pearls Smith stole from the Ordue brother on a plantation on the island of
Pangalau. The brothers capture and torture him, but their sister, Andree, helps
him escape. They head for the volcanic island where Smith is thought to be
hiding out, with the brothers in hot pursuit. Gaston Ordue is a giant of a man
with incredible strength, and has beaten men to death before, and Andree is
afraid he will kill David if she doesn’t help him. There was a lot of
similarity in this story and stories by Dan Cushman, but where Cushman is
strong on dialog, Caillou is strong on description. Regardless, the story is a
fun read.
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