Saturday, 15 April 2017

A LOTUS FOR MISS QUON. BY James Hadley Chase





The winner certainly takes it all here... Jaffe, rapacious and ruthless ensures that the diamonds he inadvertently finds in Vietnam, are his and follow him back to USA. The dead bodies pile up because of his discovery, including at least three people that he kills himself. Oh how his mistress, Miss Quon suffers since she genuinely loves him. One shudders just imagining the horrific tortures she is subjected to by the Security Police. But she protects Jaffe till she breathes her last. Incidentally in this work a young evil delinquent, Yo-Yo mirrors Jaffe on a smaller level as he successfully blackmails, steals and kills too. So, kudos. To two worthless individuals who "take it all"... I wonder sometimes why I read James Hadley Chase...
- P Lothane

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