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Agent 13: The Midnight Avenger #2
The Serpentine Assassin
"Tredekka!" a voice thundered. Spinning around, 13 stared into the cold, dark eyes of the Jinda-dii-the High Priest of the Serpentine Assassins.
The Jinda-dii spoke softly, "As penalty for your crimes against the Brotherhood, Agent 13, you have been sentenced to become a Serpentine Assassin. Your skills have thwarted us too many times-now they will become the most powerful weapons in our arsenal!"
Captured by the Brotherhood and brainwashed, Agent 13 believes his is a Serpentine Assassin! His mission-to kill his beautiful associate, Maggie Darr!
Thus, with Agent 13 "occupied," and Maggie Darr out of the way, the evil Brotherhood can proceed with its diabolical plan to take over the United States!
The Jinda-dii spoke softly, "As penalty for your crimes against the Brotherhood, Agent 13, you have been sentenced to become a Serpentine Assassin. Your skills have thwarted us too many times-now they will become the most powerful weapons in our arsenal!"
Captured by the Brotherhood and brainwashed, Agent 13 believes his is a Serpentine Assassin! His mission-to kill his beautiful associate, Maggie Darr!
Thus, with Agent 13 "occupied," and Maggie Darr out of the way, the evil Brotherhood can proceed with its diabolical plan to take over the United States!
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First published January 1, 1986
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November 18, 2011
I remember the Agent 13 advertisements from late-1980's Dragon Magazine days and being intrigued by the emulation of pulp adventure, but not sufficiently intrigued to purchases. Since then my pursestrings have loosened.
In reading the stories and looking at what TSR did with this property, I'm somewhat confused: the books seem geared for a younger audience (Wikipedia has it classified as 'juvenile') but tailoring the style to that audience means excising the rough edges that make the genre what it is, and that audience would likely not respond to the pulp style and images. And the publishing history seems to bear this out; the hinted third book was combined with something else, then TSR tried again with the same story line in a graphic novel format, and then the whole thing became a sourcebook for an existing game. And then it apparently finally died.
The failing of the novels at least are that it reads like either a distillation or a recitation of existing tropes; the author(s) worked off a checklist of "common mystery man features", and there's no sense of passion behind the concept or of the flop sweat desperation that fueled the original pulps.
Fairly forgettable.
In reading the stories and looking at what TSR did with this property, I'm somewhat confused: the books seem geared for a younger audience (Wikipedia has it classified as 'juvenile') but tailoring the style to that audience means excising the rough edges that make the genre what it is, and that audience would likely not respond to the pulp style and images. And the publishing history seems to bear this out; the hinted third book was combined with something else, then TSR tried again with the same story line in a graphic novel format, and then the whole thing became a sourcebook for an existing game. And then it apparently finally died.
The failing of the novels at least are that it reads like either a distillation or a recitation of existing tropes; the author(s) worked off a checklist of "common mystery man features", and there's no sense of passion behind the concept or of the flop sweat desperation that fueled the original pulps.
Fairly forgettable.
May 10, 2015
Impressive modern writing of a pulp style character. This is the 2nd book of Agent 13 a man against the world. He has left the secretive organization called the brotherhood to fight against their world dominating plans. Using skills he learned while being trained as their assassin he travels the world battling their plans. Very Recommended.
August 18, 2015
Not a bad pulp novel but the start did presume you'd read the previous book a little. A fun read on the train though.
July 18, 2016
read some time in 1986
February 17, 2016
reread SOMETIME in 2004
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