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Caribbean Crisis / Voodoo Island
The triumphant return of Michael Moorcock to Britain's adventuring detective, Sexton Blake, in the crime fiction event of the year!
Michael Moorcock's triumphant return to Britain's adventuring detective, Sexton Blake! His first published novel restored, revised, expanded... and presented with a brand new prequel story!
A deep sea mission...
A baffling murder...
Beneath a sky of limpid sapphire blue, the research ship Gorgon rolls gently on the scintillating waters of the Caribbean Sea.
Below, two men in a bathysphere, lowered more than a 150 fathoms into the crushing depths. But when the sphere is raised, there is only one man inside... and he has a knife in his back!
Now Sexton Blake must answer an impossible How did the killer escape★
**
Michael Moorcock's triumphant return to Britain's adventuring detective, Sexton Blake! His first published novel restored, revised, expanded... and presented with a brand new prequel story!
A deep sea mission...
A baffling murder...
Beneath a sky of limpid sapphire blue, the research ship Gorgon rolls gently on the scintillating waters of the Caribbean Sea.
Below, two men in a bathysphere, lowered more than a 150 fathoms into the crushing depths. But when the sphere is raised, there is only one man inside... and he has a knife in his back!
Now Sexton Blake must answer an impossible How did the killer escape★
**
- GenresMystery
352 pages, Paperback
Published December 5, 2023
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About the author
Michael Moorcock
1,207 books3,745 followersMichael John Moorcock is an English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels.
Moorcock has mentioned The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw and The Constable of St. Nicholas by Edward Lester Arnold as the first three books which captured his imagination. He became editor of Tarzan Adventures in 1956, at the age of sixteen, and later moved on to edit Sexton Blake Library. As editor of the controversial British science fiction magazine New Worlds, from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the science fiction "New Wave" in the UK and indirectly in the United States. His serialization of Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron was notorious for causing British MPs to condemn in Parliament the Arts Council's funding of the magazine.
During this time, he occasionally wrote under the pseudonym of "James Colvin," a "house pseudonym" used by other critics on New Worlds. A spoof obituary of Colvin appeared in New Worlds #197 (January 1970), written by "William Barclay" (another Moorcock pseudonym). Moorcock, indeed, makes much use of the initials "JC", and not entirely coincidentally these are also the initials of Jesus Christ, the subject of his 1967 Nebula award-winning novella Behold the Man, which tells the story of Karl Glogauer, a time-traveller who takes on the role of Christ. They are also the initials of various "Eternal Champion" Moorcock characters such as Jerry Cornelius, Jerry Cornell and Jherek Carnelian. In more recent years, Moorcock has taken to using "Warwick Colvin, Jr." as yet another pseudonym, particularly in his Second Ether fiction.
Moorcock has mentioned The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw and The Constable of St. Nicholas by Edward Lester Arnold as the first three books which captured his imagination. He became editor of Tarzan Adventures in 1956, at the age of sixteen, and later moved on to edit Sexton Blake Library. As editor of the controversial British science fiction magazine New Worlds, from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the science fiction "New Wave" in the UK and indirectly in the United States. His serialization of Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron was notorious for causing British MPs to condemn in Parliament the Arts Council's funding of the magazine.
During this time, he occasionally wrote under the pseudonym of "James Colvin," a "house pseudonym" used by other critics on New Worlds. A spoof obituary of Colvin appeared in New Worlds #197 (January 1970), written by "William Barclay" (another Moorcock pseudonym). Moorcock, indeed, makes much use of the initials "JC", and not entirely coincidentally these are also the initials of Jesus Christ, the subject of his 1967 Nebula award-winning novella Behold the Man, which tells the story of Karl Glogauer, a time-traveller who takes on the role of Christ. They are also the initials of various "Eternal Champion" Moorcock characters such as Jerry Cornelius, Jerry Cornell and Jherek Carnelian. In more recent years, Moorcock has taken to using "Warwick Colvin, Jr." as yet another pseudonym, particularly in his Second Ether fiction.
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July 14, 2024
I love Moorcock's writing and was interested in learning more about Sexton Blake, so this was an easy purchase.
It's good, not great.
Caribbean Crisis: Done as an attempt to 'update' Blake for the 60's, it did what every attempt to do this with a pulp detective does, turned him into watered down James Bond.
The vibe of the setting and time period are great, the mystery was interesting and I liked how they treated the politics of the time.
Blake is there and is well written, but he just feels like a decent version of any of the dozens of 007 wannabes.
Voodoo Island: A retrofitted prequel that has three of Blakes foes, a nazi spy and a fake voodoo shaman all scheming and stumbling over each other in an attempt to seize control of the politically precarious island of the title.
This was better, as it captures the vibe of 20's detective/adventure fiction, builds a nice dynamic between Blake and his sidekick, drops a few easter eggs from Moorcock's other series and felt like it gave me a better idea what the early Blake stories were like.
This was the one that has me interested in tracking down more Blake books.
It's good, not great.
Caribbean Crisis: Done as an attempt to 'update' Blake for the 60's, it did what every attempt to do this with a pulp detective does, turned him into watered down James Bond.
The vibe of the setting and time period are great, the mystery was interesting and I liked how they treated the politics of the time.
Blake is there and is well written, but he just feels like a decent version of any of the dozens of 007 wannabes.
Voodoo Island: A retrofitted prequel that has three of Blakes foes, a nazi spy and a fake voodoo shaman all scheming and stumbling over each other in an attempt to seize control of the politically precarious island of the title.
This was better, as it captures the vibe of 20's detective/adventure fiction, builds a nice dynamic between Blake and his sidekick, drops a few easter eggs from Moorcock's other series and felt like it gave me a better idea what the early Blake stories were like.
This was the one that has me interested in tracking down more Blake books.
December 8, 2023
This book is a lot of fun. I'm new to the Sexton Blake stories, but a fan of Michael Moorcock's work. I enjoyed the little connections to his Eternal Champion stories. They're small, though (mostly names), so not required to enjoy this book.
December 15, 2024
Two novels in one and both linked in setting and with some characters. These were a very easy read and gripping enough to keep you going if, like me, you’re not really a Sexton Blake fan.
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