Treasure

Fox #4

by Adam Hardy

(also titled TREASURE MAP)The lure of gold has often brought men to the very brink of total disaster. Lieutenant George Abercrombie Fox was no exception.It began well with a sharp action and a prize taken. Then things began to go wrong. A lee shore and an escape against desperate odds. Treachery, death and the treasure. Always the treasure.FOX IS NOT THE NOBLE HERO OF TRADITIONAL FICTION. FOX IS A FIGHTING MAN WHO TRANSCENDS HEROISM — HE DOESN’T CARE HOW HE WINS AS LONG AS HE WINS. HE’S MEAN, CUNNING AND MOST VICIOUS WHEN TRAPPED. THERE’S NO WAY TO OUTFOX FOX!Adam Hardy was a pen name used by Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005). A prolific writer, Bulmer wrote over 160 novels and many short stories, both under his real name and various pen names. He is best known for science fiction, including his long-running Dray Prescot series of planetary romances, but he wrote in many genres.

141 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 1973

About the author

Adam Hardy is a pseudonym used by Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005).

Reviews

[Christopher Taylor · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fox, up from the gutter and now 25 years in the British Navy yet stuck as a Lieutenant because of his lack of "interest" finds himself facing a dilemma. He's been given a treasure map by a dying French officer at Acre. Does he follow up on that, becoming a renegade and deserter from the Navy, or let the treasure go and pursue his apparently dead-end career?

This book has the usual ups and downs Fox tends to face. For every moment of good fortune, bad luck and disaster faces him. Fox finds his way through most events and situations through cleverness and ingenuity, but some things are simply beyond him.

There are a few events in the book that almost defy belief, but having read the exploits of men such as Lord Cochrane and others, the unbelievable did happen at the time in the Navy, and Fox is such a different character than most sea novels the books race along fresh and interesting.

[Steven Vaughan-Nichols · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as amusing as others in this series, but it gave me a pleasant couple of hours/