TROUBLESHOOTER

by David Dodge ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 1, 1970

Take a deep breath and you'll go right on holding it -- throughout this long, forcibly effective story impacted with brutality of all kinds beginning with the trial of one John Abraham Lincoln by an ad hoc inner sanctum U.S. government committee. Lincoln had been released after more than three years in solitary confinement by the Chinese Communists following his murder of a Chinese financier. Not quite so solitary since under drugs, shock, etc. he had been daily used as a seed-male servicing one Chinese girl after another. His release and trial now leaves many points unanswered (why was he freed, what is he not disclosing) and finds him altogether impotent. The second part of this novel shows Lincoln therapeutically pursuing the recovery of his powers and failing on the way to Africa. In spite of Gloria, willing and loving and en route to a loveless marriage. South Africa however is equally barbarous, particularly since he is up against one Paul Herzog who packs a larger ""clout than the Prime Minister"" and who takes them all (Gloria, her intended, and others) on a shoot for wild game which deteriorates into a planned pogrom, rapine and arson. A freeswinging if not altogether punchy story which has something of the manic energy of Ian Fleming and Richard Condon combined and it certainly will detain the reader in its not so gentlemanly grip.

Pub Date: Feb. 1, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Macmillan

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1970

Categories: FICTION