Jungle Hatred

Kent, Jim

Published by Scripts (1967), Sydney, 1967

About this Item

Rubbing, creasing and fading to spine. Pencil price on front cover "6/-". No signatures. Some foxing.; (3)-162 pages. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 177 x 107mm. Fiction. Artist cover art. "The sensuous Thai women fought and loved with the Aussie soldiers" - from front cover. "Aussie Diggers Bill Calaghan and Jack Young endure hardship slaving on the Burma-Thai railway line under their Japanese captros. Finalluy they escape and make an alliance with a group of Thai women whose menfolk have been decimated. Instructed by the Australians and with the help of stolen Japanese weapons, the Thai girls become dangerous marauders. But Salah and Naisu are more than fighting comrades to Callaghan and Young, who discover the delights of eastern lovemaking. When Salah is captured and brutally interrogated by the Japs, Callaghan realises wht this woman of the jungle now means to him." - from blurb on rear cover. This title was published as #PB296 in the publisher's series "Pocket Books". It is also number (5) in the publisher's internal records for the single author series for Jim Kent, a series which ran to number 71 (see Flanagan, p. 9 for note on internal series numbering). Scripts was a publishing imprint of the publisher Horwitz. [Reference: Flanagan, "Australian Vintage Paperback Guide" (1994), pp. 32, 101-103 - "Like the John Slater Books, most of Jim Kent's novels deal with fairly sadistic subject matter, including quite a number of war atrocity novels."]. Seller Inventory # 26401

Bibliographic Details

Title: Jungle Hatred

Publisher: Scripts (1967), Sydney

Publication Date: 1967

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued

Edition: First Edition.