Pure Sweet Hell (1957)
Malcolm Douglas
Gold Medal 972
Exploits of an undercover G-Man in a Spanish coastal town, trying to figure out how an Italian kingpin has rerouted his drug trade through a new port of call. "Bish" is our vice agent/narrator, masquerading as just another sailor on the New York-Spain-Italy run. No sooner does the boat pull into harbor than Bish finds his contact and partner murdered, initiating 24-hours of non-stop running and fighting centered on the possession of two packs of Lucky Strikes stuffed with cocaine. There's also a beautiful American woman with her own problems who always seems to turn up at the wrong time. Plucky Pablo serves as Bish's boy Friday and guide to Spanish customs. A hundred pages in and I was both tired and confused. Average.
Gold Medal 972
Exploits of an undercover G-Man in a Spanish coastal town, trying to figure out how an Italian kingpin has rerouted his drug trade through a new port of call. "Bish" is our vice agent/narrator, masquerading as just another sailor on the New York-Spain-Italy run. No sooner does the boat pull into harbor than Bish finds his contact and partner murdered, initiating 24-hours of non-stop running and fighting centered on the possession of two packs of Lucky Strikes stuffed with cocaine. There's also a beautiful American woman with her own problems who always seems to turn up at the wrong time. Plucky Pablo serves as Bish's boy Friday and guide to Spanish customs. A hundred pages in and I was both tired and confused. Average.