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Joe Gall Mystery #6
The Star Ruby Contract
It’s not every spy who can, if operating in Burma to help that government remove a Nationalist Chinese general and his army from their lands, call upon a Gurka regiment from India. Joe Gall can and does as he returns to that Indochina country after many years.
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First published February 1, 1967
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Philip Atlee
35 books8 followersPseudonym of James Atlee Phillips
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Atlee's first book was an expose about local country club members. An avid flyer, he was a member of the Flying Tigers before WWII. He joined the Marines after Pearl Harbor. He ran Amphibian Airways in Burma, probably for the CIA, and it is from this experience that his first Joe Gall book, Pagoda, came.
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Atlee's first book was an expose about local country club members. An avid flyer, he was a member of the Flying Tigers before WWII. He joined the Marines after Pearl Harbor. He ran Amphibian Airways in Burma, probably for the CIA, and it is from this experience that his first Joe Gall book, Pagoda, came.
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August 21, 2012
Sixties spy novel. Free agent Joe Gall goes to Burma, hires an escort, has lots of sex and curry, gets captured, gets a finger cut off, blows shit up, plays poker for his life against a drunken monk, is captured by a tribe of headhunters, plays one dictator off against another, and comes out in mostly one piece by the end. Beyond that I'm not sure what it was about. Told with lots of hardboiled laconic delivery. I liked it for a what it was. I'll read some more by this author.
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