The melting man

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TO a millionaire tycoon like Cavan O'Dowda the cash value of a Mercedes 250SL is chickenfeed. Why then does its loss seem more important than his stepdaughter's simultaneous loss of memory? It is a question that intrigues Rex Carver who, called in to investigate, soon finds himself hotfooting it across Europe on the trail of something far more valuable than a car. He finds too that there are others on the same trail. Interpol for instance, and the Alakwe brothers, bizarre agents of a new African state. But for Carver even the ruthless O'Dowda is not as unnerving as the brothers5 lethal assistant Miss Panda Bubakar-six foot plus of man-hungry African sexbomb! What is it that makes the missing car so important? Why does the lovely 'amnesia victim' and her elder sister both hate their megalomaniac stepfather? And what is the secret of O'Dowda's sinister mountain chateau where he keeps a priváté waxworks gallery? Only when trapped in this macabre place with death only minutes away does... Tovább

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TO a millionaire tycoon like Cavan O'Dowda the cash value of a Mercedes 250SL is chickenfeed. Why then does its loss seem more important than his stepdaughter's simultaneous loss of memory? It is a question that intrigues Rex Carver who, called in to investigate, soon finds himself hotfooting it across Europe on the trail of something far more valuable than a car. He finds too that there are others on the same trail. Interpol for instance, and the Alakwe brothers, bizarre agents of a new African state. But for Carver even the ruthless O'Dowda is not as unnerving as the brothers5 lethal assistant Miss Panda Bubakar-six foot plus of man-hungry African sexbomb! What is it that makes the missing car so important? Why does the lovely 'amnesia victim' and her elder sister both hate their megalomaniac stepfather? And what is the secret of O'Dowda's sinister mountain chateau where he keeps a priváté waxworks gallery? Only when trapped in this macabre place with death only minutes away does Carver learn the terrifying secret of The Melting Man. Victor Canning's first növel was published in 1934 and since then, apart from war service, writing has been his full-time occupation. The Melting Man, his thirty-first book (and seventh Companion choice) proves that Reader's Digest, describing him as fcone of the finest six thriller writers in the world' were not being extravagant. His new növel, packed with wonderful oddball characters, displays once again his natural gift for story-telling, and the complete mastery he has of the thriller genre is here brilliantly in evidence. Vissza