Snake

by John Crosby

At 22, Geraldine Colt had seen more of the effects of violence than most people see in a lifetime. Turning her back on the revolutionary cause, she fled to Majorca in search of privacy and peace.
For F.B.I. Officer John Hawkins, who had tracked her obsessively now for five years, she was still a wanted woman. But Geraldine had another and more deadly pursuer: her former fellow-terrorist and lover, Elf. The product of a rich but unstable home, Elf had a sexual aggressiveness which could turn at any moment into the amoral brutality of a psychopathic killer. And Geraldine had become her quarry...

224 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 1979

About the author

John Crosby (May 18, 1912, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - September 7, 1991, Esmont, Virginia) was a newspaper columnist, radio-television critic, novelist and TV host. During the 1950s, he was generally regarded as the leading critic of television. From 1965 to 1975 he was a columnist for the British weekly, The Observer. He married Mary B. Wolferth in 1946, and they divorced in 1959. His second wife, the former Katharine J. B. Wood, was a former fashion editor of Edinburgh's The Scotsman. In 1977, he moved to a farm outside Esmont, Virginia, and turned to writing suspense novels, including Men in Arms (1983). (source: Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Adam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gosh! I didn't know they knew such bad words in the 70s 😂
I did enjoy this story of two 'bad ass' women, pursued by the FBI. It wasn't the most gripping book I've read but entertained me enough.
Is it bad that I wanted more detail about what Elf did with the bamboo sticks?! I felt cheated that that was left to my imagination.