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Loading... The Fu Manchu Omnibus: Volume 4 (1999)by Sax Rohmer
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Volume Four includes: The Drums of Fu Manchu: The sound of the drums carries a warning to fourteen world leaders who stand in the way of Fu Manchu's desire for world domination: surrender to his schemes, or die at the hands of his secret army. Even Nayland Smith has been marked for death by the beating of the drums... Shadow of Fu Manchu: The devil doctor plots to control the greatest weapon ever created - a weapon which dwarfs the power of the atomic bomb and which Nayland Smith must, at all costs, keep from falling into the hands of the most dangerous man in the world. Emperor Fu Manchu: No one in the Western world could be sure what lay behind the Bamboo Curtain, in the remote province of Szechuan. Only Nayland Smith suspects that the mysterious Master whom it hides, the true power behind Communist China, is in fact his old enemy, in a new disguise. His young undercover agent, Tony McKay, must enter Fu Manchu's domain to penetrate the veil of secrecy. No library descriptions found. |
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'Emperor Fu Manchu' was the last published Fu Manchu novel written at the end of the 1950's, when anti communist sentiment was high, so in addition to Fu Manchu, the Russians and Communist Chinese are sub-villains (in fact Fu Manchu is attacking them as well for his own reasons) For once Nayland Smith and Fu Manchu have some shared enemies. All the parts of the FU formula are here: Nayland Smith, Impetuous young Male sidekick who falls for the hot exotic girl, exotic girl as usual comes under the power of Fu Manchu...and so on.
If you have reached the final novel in this long series, then you know what to expect. This is one of the stronger entries, so good to go out on a high note. Only the few short stories in 'Wrath of Fu Manchu' remain after this.
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