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ACTOR-ADVENTURER-LOVER-THIEF...  Alan Grofield is one of the few swingers still swinging who could start the day with a federal crime, and end it working for Uncle Sam. And wind up deep in the frozen wastes of northern Canada fighting like hell for Old Glory and his own neck. But that’s what happens when Grofield is elected patriot-for-a-day and thrown by the feds into the nitty-gritty of a Third World intrigue. An intrigue involving the Have-Not Nations in a lethal plot to “readjust” the international balance of power. When irresistible Alan meets The Blackbird, a dangerous black beauty from the new African nation of Undurwa, the action for miles around runs from hot to hotter to hottest. Bodies pile up. National leaders rise and fall. And Grofield racks up his wildest, most violent caper to date. A caper that handsomely shows off his expertise at breaking up big-time trouble. And promoting interracial affairs. Oh, yes.

It is more than slightly disconcerting for a man lying in bed in his fifth-floor hotel room to observe a girl’s tanned legs suddenly dangling over the windowsill. Followed by the rest of her. It is further upsetting if the man is clothed only in a bandage covering a bullet wound — and has $60,000 in illegally acquired currency in a suitcase. Not that Grofield is really a thief; he merely moonlights in the all-too-frequent intervals when his acting career is interrupted by unemployment. For a while Grofield and the girl, whose name is Ellen Marie Fitzgerald, swap some fairly preposterous lies about what each of them is doing there in Mexico City. Then Grofield decides to do a switch on the purloined letter bit and puts the truth right out where it can be seen. Ellen’s lies continue, and they are lulus — a story of star-crossed love, two overprotective aunts from whom she is fleeing, and so on. The “aunts,” however, turn out to be very sinister and extremely professional hoods, and Ellen’s most incredible story turns out to be true. Captured and closely guarded, the damsel and her reluctant protector manage by a masterpiece of inventiveness to escape the armed assassins. Then begins a wild chase down the one and only road to Acapulco, where Ellen must arrive, in a matter of hours in order to prevent a murder that would also destroy the murderer. With one battalion of hired hoods following them and another headed their way, the going is rough. It has some pleasant intervals, though. Grofield is handsome and virile, and Ellen is pretty and sexy, and... The story is great fun, as well as wildly suspenseful. The setting — Mexico City, San Miguel, Acapulco, the rugged and lovely countryside — is colorfully drawn, a brilliant background for a dark crime that must be averted. We are happy to introduce this first hardbound crime story by Richard Stark. His other mysteries in paperback are well known to a wide public and have received an enthusiastic press.