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Fu-Manchu journeys to the United States for the first time, and is the power behind a "League of Good Americans" candidate for the presidency. From Niagara Falls to the catacombs of NY's Chinatown, Nayland Smith and federal agent Mark Hepburn seek to stop the Devil Doctor and his plan to assassinate a presidential candidate - 30 years before The Manchurian Candidate! BONUS FEATURE: This volume includes the first of three "lost adventures of Nayland Smith". "The Blue Monkey," follows Smith and Petrie as they become embroiled in a murder investigation in Dartmoor. It appeared in Rohmer's 1920 book of short fiction, The Haunting of Low Fennel, and has only previously been included with the Fu-Manchu stories in France and Belgium.… (mere)
What was gripping and timely in 1936 comes across in many respects as cringe-worthy or corny, read today. That said, Rohmer is definitely able to conjure up the fantastic, in this tale of an American presidential election being influenced by the power of Dr. Fu Manchu. The story does have a gigantic plot hole that a better reading of the Constitution would have avoided. Stand-ins for Huey Long are probably the most recognizable at this distance. Worth reading, with a careful eye that this was written in less sensitive times. ( )
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Three cars drew up, the leading car abreast of a great bronze door bearing a design representing the beautiful agonized face of the Savior, a crown of thorns crushed down upon His brow.
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"Sax Rohmer has done in this book, for the field of adventure fiction, what Sinclair Lewis did for serious fiction in his novel IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE ..."
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The man who had dared to remodel nature's forces had been claimed at last by the gods he had outraged.
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Originally serialized in Collier's Magazine, February 29-May 16, 1936.
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Fu-Manchu journeys to the United States for the first time, and is the power behind a "League of Good Americans" candidate for the presidency. From Niagara Falls to the catacombs of NY's Chinatown, Nayland Smith and federal agent Mark Hepburn seek to stop the Devil Doctor and his plan to assassinate a presidential candidate - 30 years before The Manchurian Candidate! BONUS FEATURE: This volume includes the first of three "lost adventures of Nayland Smith". "The Blue Monkey," follows Smith and Petrie as they become embroiled in a murder investigation in Dartmoor. It appeared in Rohmer's 1920 book of short fiction, The Haunting of Low Fennel, and has only previously been included with the Fu-Manchu stories in France and Belgium.
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