OPERATION DESTRUCT

by Christopher Nicole ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 20, 1969

As a C.E.D. (Counter Espionage Department) agent Jonathan Anders is something of a bungler but he has perseverance. On the way to investigate the hold of a Russian trawler mysteriously sunk near Guernsey, he meets aggressive Americans Helen and Clark Bridges--who just happen to cruise by later when agents for the secret Russian survivors, suspecting Jon's mission, try to drown him. He discovers that Madam Cantelna, a Nobel Prize winning marine biologist, has a complete lab on board, and vials of some icky stuff which almost makes Helen vomit. In his cross-country pursuit of Madam Cantelna, Jon travels beyond Scotland (after a preposterous stopover with a pop singer who supplies a jet) to the island rendezvous where Madam would meet another trawler and finish her research on population poisoning by fish pollution. But Jonathan crashes onto the scene and ... . The ""killing is nothing to me"" talk is repetitive and sounds like amateur one-upsmanship, and Jonathan emerges as a beginner not quick enough to be admired nor foolish enough to be laughed at.

Pub Date: March 20, 1969

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1969

Categories: FICTION