Set in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Hawaii, this novel features a private investigator and ex-member of the force named Copp, who becomes involved with a lady of uncertain background and purpose
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Don Pendleton (1927-1995) was creator of the popular The Executioner: Mack Bolan series and is considered the “father of the action/adventure” literary genre. His fiction includes the Joe Copp and Ashton Ford mystery series, and in addition, several nonfiction books, including those in collaboration with his wife, Linda Pendleton. He published more than one hundred novels, which have sold close to two hundred million copies world-wide in numerous languages.
Pendleton is the author of 100 paperback originals, the Executioner series, which sell in the millions. Here he introduces private eye Joe Copp, narrator of a novel that demands the "neutral stomach" he boasts. The murders of nudie girl performers in Los Angeles sleaze joints are the basis for the plot and Copp's link to Linda Shelton. Sporting only cowboy boots and hat, Linda cavorts on the runway to pay for her education as a psychologist. At Copp's home, she wears even less, until someone hiding outside tries to kill them by firing rounds of ammunition through the one-way picture window. When the girl vanishes later, the detective traces her to Hawaii where rich Jim Davitsky provides women in a "talent pool" to high U.S. government officials. Protected by corrupt cops, Davitsky tortures and kills the prostitutes, recording the outrages on film. Numerous scenes of violence and tension should suit fans of the raw shocker if Copp's flaunting self-image as a "hard case," invincible macho, doesn't put them off.
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