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What is the Blind Death? New York's newshawks work overtime in a
flurry of flashbulb explosions as they clamor for the scoop on the
insidious wave of corpses turning up around the city, all struck
dead, eyes turned an unseeing ivory by the masked mastermind known
as... White Eyes. As police riot guns and gangland Tommy-guns turn
New York City's winter snows scarlet, Doc Savage, man of mystery,
giant of bronze, discovers that the mysterious plague is part of an
audacious scheme to unite all of New York's criminal elements
against him. White Eyes' ultimate goal-to seize the fabled Mayan
wealth of the Man of Bronze From snowbound Manhattan to the
sugar-cane fields of tropical Cuba, Doc Savage and his Iron Crew
wage what may be the greatest battle for survival of their careers
When a brazen adventuress tries to hire Doc Savage for a secret
mission-but won't tell him why-it lights the fuse for one of the
most explosive exploits ever to involve the Man of Bronze. Who is
Hornetta Hale? Why does she need to rent Doc's private submarine?
And who is so determined to eliminate her that they destroy Doc
Savage's skyscraper headquarters in the process? From Manhattan
Island to the Caribbean Sea, Doc and his fighting crew chase the
most violent gang of criminals they have ever encountered in a
desperate race to unlock the secret of Phantom Lagoon. Or are they
more than mere criminals?
A dying man is discovered, blinded and drained of blood, clutching
a defaced bat medallion in the forbidden region known as
Ultra-Stygia. With his last words, he warns that the gates of Hell
have burst open--and no one is safe. This is only the beginning of
a horrific chain of events that summons Doc Savage to a
vampire-haunted zone between two rival powers vying for control of
the least habitable spot on Earth. Why? What was the dark secret of
Ultra-Stygia--over which warring nations spill rivers of blood?
Only the mighty Man of Bronze dared its bat-infested caverns in
search of the unexpected answer
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Miami Noir: The Classics (Hardcover)
Les Standiford; Contributions by Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Elmore Leonard, Lester Dent, Zora Neale Hurston, …
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R1,038
Discovery Miles 10 380
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The world believed that aviator Tom Franklin was dead. Years
before, he had set out on a pioneering transpacific flight
alone-and vanished When he returned, as it from the grave, Franklin
and a mysterious woman flew a battered plane that had been repaired
with plates of pure gold. Desperately seeking the help of Doc
Savage, the mighty Man of Bronze, Franklin and his curvaceous
charge fall into the clutches of diamond smuggler Blackbird Hinton
and his cutthroat crew-but not before the bronze adventurer hears
of their plight. From Manhattan to Cape Town ensues a quest as
dangerous as any in recorded history. One that will embroil the
compassionate yet hard-fisted Doc Savage and his resourceful men in
a raging struggle for control of one of history's most closely
guarded mysteries. The lost secret of Python Isle
When out of work magician Gulliver Greene stumbles upon a man who
claims to be Christopher Columbus, still alive in 1937, it's only
the start of the most complex plot ever to involve the incredible
Doc Savage. Called to the sleepy farm town of La Plata, Missouri,
the Man of Bronze plunges into the enigma of the vanishing
Victorian house. Is it haunted? Is it even real? Can Doc solve the
mystery--or will he be sucked into the unknown vortex into which it
disappears? From his supersecret Crime College to a sinister island
in the Great Lakes, Doc Savage and his brilliant team race to
assemble the most baffling webwork of Halloween horrors ever
encountered. For many weird mysteries beyond human ken converge in
the Missouri wilderness in this, the wildest Doc Savage adventure
yet
No one knew who--or what--the strange being who called himself "X
Man" truly was. He was found wandering the ruins of a crumbling
Roman fort, dressed in a toga, speaking classical Latin--and
clutching a handful of unearthly black seeds. Declared insane, the
X Man patiently tended his weird plants until the day, impelled by
a nameless terror, he fled Wyndmoor Asylum to unleash a cyclone of
violence that was destined to suck the mighty Man of Bronze into
the blackest, most unbelievable mystery of his entire career. For
far from Scotland lay a domain of death unknown to the world and
called by the ancient Latin name of Novum Eboracum--New York From
the wild Scottish moors to the unexplored heart of darkest Africa,
Doc Savage and his indomitable men embarked upon a desperate quest
for the Forgotten Realm....
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