u/whatisscoobydone

Hoowhee. He was holding back with the first one. It's a "communist plot" type piece of villainy that isn't explicit against anyone but socialists and Germans I guess. There's one line about "Peterson? That sounds like a nice normal British surname" "heh yeah if it was his real name" that doesn't poke you in the eye with antisemitism. It's got a couple of rants about socialists being lazy and unwilling to work and jealous and wanting to torture and murder capitalists. Stuff about streets flooding with blood and all that. They're being funded by outside international business interests who themselves do not care about communism and are only in it for the money.

The second book starts with a gathering of socialists and a couple of Jewish criminals, who we find out get white women addicted to drugs and sell them into slavery. The protagonist, as part of a masked vigilante group, gets a cat of nine tails and flogs them until they almost die. That's chapter one.

Drummond is ugly and boisterous and not really that smart.

I'll keep everyone updated.

Just read the novel "Six Days of the Condor". When he grabs a woman off the street to have a place to stay, he spends about an hour telling her everything that happened to him, proves his story true with the phone book and his work ID, and then *gives her the gun*. They have dinner together, great conversation, similar tastes, wash the dishes together, go to bed in separate rooms, and then she comes to him in the night for company.

Other differences: he's got no military training, the conspiracy is about heroin trafficking from Asia, there's no Chinese girlfriend at the office, and he kills the assassin dude at the end of the book.