Tokyo Purple

The Penetrator #6

by Lionel Derrick, Chet Cuningham

Mark Hardin is up against a Japanese crime syndicate that's turning out atomic artillery.
Naked and alone, she was at the mercy of an evil giant, a Japanese "Godfather" who wanted to pick her brains. And if she wouldn't cooperate-well, there were a number things he could do with his beautiful American captive...

Genres: Mystery

Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Lionel Derrick is the house name, or pseudonym, for Mark K. Roberts and Chet Cummingham while writing the Penetrator series for Pinnacle Books. Roberts wrote the odd books and Cummingham the even ones.

Reviews

[Wayne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Even on vacation The Penetrator can't catch a break. A young female scientist is kidnapped along with a few others to be forced to work on a nuclear weapons for sale on the black market. Mark Hardin just happens to be in Japan at the same time.
The end was pretty good. A little better than the lead. You always know what your getting with a Penetrator book. Sometimes more sex. Sometimes more violence. One thing you know. It's almost always point A to point B with a few detours in under 180 pages. Call me silly, but I'll be coming back for more.

[Mikepottz · Rating 4 out of 5]

The penetrator with so much blood on his hands needs a vacation to cleanse all the death. He ends up in Hong Kong and trouble soon follows. Leaving his trademark blue flint arrow at the death sites. A nuclear scientist is kidnapped in Japan and off the penetrator goes. He will pump bullets into Yakuza spraying blood like volcanoes as more and more gang members are hunting him down. The Yakuza boss is selling atomic artillery to the highest bidders. Heaps of inconsistencies with the Japanese cultural stuff but it's a men's bloody adventure and as always the Penetrator gets the bad guys.

[Secret Agent Fan · Rating 3 out of 5]

After five prior adventures in the United States, “Tokyo Purple” sends Mark Hardin, vacationing in Hong Kong, to Japan, to go up against a crime ring that’s expanding into building and selling to the highest bidder tactical nuclear weapons.

This is an exciting, fast-paced adventure. It avoids the familiarity of the first book in the series by pitting Hardin against a different type of enemy. The setting, mostly in Japan, allows for some vivid local color, and for villains who don’t always use conventional weapons.

The battle between Hardin and Kamisori, the mastermind behind the tactical nuclear weapon scheme, is fought with a lance, samurai sword, battle axe, mace, and bow and arrow, among other traditional weapons. The fight is highlight of the book—and reminded me a bit of the epic fight scene between Michele Yeoh and Ziyi Zhang in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.”

[Roger · Rating 4 out of 5]

Continue to be a very entertaining series. Recommend consideration, and thanks to the authors.

[Little Timmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another men's adventure series from the 70's. Pretty much standard action, violence and sex. However a good standout is that the hero is healed and trained by an old Cheyenne Indian in the ancient mystic warrior ways of the Cheyenne. Recommended