Chant

Chant #1

by George C. Chesbro, David Cross (Pseudonym)

Meet John Sinclair. Medal of Honor. Black Belt.
The savage fury of the West meets the ancient power of the East
in one awesome warrior-for-hire.

Genius of disguise, master of intrigue, adept in the killing arts.
Chant has brought his body under his mind's control
and he can make anyone's heart stop beating in a second.
Even his own.

In every government there's at least one person trying to buy him,
and another trying to kill him.
Neither can be done.
Chant only takes the jobs he wants ...
and completes them with deadly precision.

No one can stop him.
Except perhaps the man called Bai.
The sensei who, years ago, trained him.
The sensei now hired to kill him ...

Genres: Mystery

231 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

George C. Chesbro was an American author of detective fiction. His most notable works feature Dr. Robert "Mongo the Magnificent" Fredrickson, a private detective with dwarfism. He also wrote the novelization of The Golden Child, a movie of the same name starring Eddie Murphy.

Chesbro was born in Washington, D.C. He worked as a special education teacher at Pearl River and later at rockland Psychiatric Center, where he worked with trouble teens. Chebro was married and had one daughter and two step-daughters.

Reviews

[Barry]

I've read almost all of Chesbro's books and this is the first one u sbsolutely could not get into. I realized after about :35 pages that I just didn't care.

[Robert]

Good (but not great) thriller from George Chesbro. A nice change from the Mongo series, but i found it a bit less rich and engaging.

[Jason]

"Men's fiction" has a rep for being boring and by-the-book ... but some of it is legitimately psychologically weird and unhealthy.

[Mark Masztal]

A nice side project for George writing as David Cross. Hard to find series but well worth it.

[Sue Haynie]

Enjoyed the book as I wanted to get to the ending to see if Chant was love struck or just plain hiding behind the sex. Sue

[Dutch Waterman]

Violent! Gruesome! Terrific!