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Kwai Chang Caine, Kung Fu Master #2
Chains: Kwai Chang Caine Master of Kung Fu, #2
Popular ABC-TV David Carradine martial arts show, Kung Fu. The one in which he's often referred to as "Grasshopper." Like many TV programs of the sixties the show got it's own paperback series, too.
Ased on Season 1; Episode 9: To learn the whereabouts of his brother, mild-mannered wanderer Kwai Chang Caine, who also happens to be a Shaolin monk on the run from a trumped up murder charge, uses his totally awesome martial arts skills to break himself and hulking mountain man Huntoon out of the army stockade. During the course of their journey, the violent and rabid Huntoon discovers the value of friendship and trust, and how to lead a more peaceful existence.
Ased on Season 1; Episode 9: To learn the whereabouts of his brother, mild-mannered wanderer Kwai Chang Caine, who also happens to be a Shaolin monk on the run from a trumped up murder charge, uses his totally awesome martial arts skills to break himself and hulking mountain man Huntoon out of the army stockade. During the course of their journey, the violent and rabid Huntoon discovers the value of friendship and trust, and how to lead a more peaceful existence.
Mass Market Paperback
Published January 1, 1973
About the author
Ron Goulart
603 books99 followersPseudonyms: Howard Lee; Frank S Shawn; Kenneth Robeson; Con Steffanson; Josephine Kains; Joseph Silva; William Shatner.
Ron Goulart is a cultural historian and novelist. Besides writing extensively about pulp fiction—including the seminal Cheap Thrills: An Informal History of Pulp Magazines (1972)—Goulart has written for the pulps since 1952, when the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction published his first story, a sci-fi parody of letters to the editor. Since then he has written dozens of novels and countless short stories, spanning genres and using a variety of pennames, including Kenneth Robeson, Joseph Silva, and Con Steffanson. In the 1990s, he became the ghostwriter for William Shatner’s popular TekWar novels. Goulart’s After Things Fell Apart (1970) is the only science-fiction novel to ever win an Edgar Award.
In the 1970s Goulart wrote novels starring series characters like Flash Gordon and the Phantom, and in 1980 he published Hail Hibbler, a comic sci-fi novel that began the Odd Jobs, Inc. series. Goulart has also written several comic mystery series, including six books starring Groucho Marx. Having written for comic books, Goulart produced several histories of the art form, including the Comic Book Encyclopedia (2004).
Ron Goulart is a cultural historian and novelist. Besides writing extensively about pulp fiction—including the seminal Cheap Thrills: An Informal History of Pulp Magazines (1972)—Goulart has written for the pulps since 1952, when the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction published his first story, a sci-fi parody of letters to the editor. Since then he has written dozens of novels and countless short stories, spanning genres and using a variety of pennames, including Kenneth Robeson, Joseph Silva, and Con Steffanson. In the 1990s, he became the ghostwriter for William Shatner’s popular TekWar novels. Goulart’s After Things Fell Apart (1970) is the only science-fiction novel to ever win an Edgar Award.
In the 1970s Goulart wrote novels starring series characters like Flash Gordon and the Phantom, and in 1980 he published Hail Hibbler, a comic sci-fi novel that began the Odd Jobs, Inc. series. Goulart has also written several comic mystery series, including six books starring Groucho Marx. Having written for comic books, Goulart produced several histories of the art form, including the Comic Book Encyclopedia (2004).
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