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A Game of Authors

av Frank Herbert

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In pursuit of a scoop, American journalist Hal Garson follows up on a mysterious, desperate letter that points to the whereabouts of legendary author Antone Luac, who vanished without a trace in Mexico years ago. The celebrated writer's disappearance is an enduring mystery, and Garson senses this story will make his career. Despite warnings, he travels to isolated Ciudad Brockman and begins asking questions ... too many questions, which place him in the crossfire of a local crime lord, a Communist insurgent group, and finally to the imprisoned writer-and his beautiful daughter-who may not want to be found.… (mer)
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Of course, Frank Herbert didn’t write this novel in 2013. WordFire Press – better known as Kevin J Anderson – has been publishing Herbert’s previously unpublished work, and this mainstream thriller is one of those. And I can see why it never saw print back in the day. A journalist is sent a letter in broken English which reveals that a long-missing Pulitzer Prize-winning author is hiding out in Mexico. The journalist persuades his paper to let him check it out… but it’s all a plot by the missing author, who has been imprisoned in a hacienda, with his nubile daughter, by the head of the local communist cell, because the author has been writing propaganda stories for them and selling them under pseudonyms to US slicks. The writing in A Game of Authors is definitely Herbert’s, but it’s much cruder than his later work and some of the dialogue is embarrassingly bad. The Mexican characters are all stereotypes, and the communist conspiracy plot is too weak to justify the violent showdown which results. If you’re interested in Herbert’s career, A Game of Authors might be worth a read; but letting it see the light of day will not do his reputation all that much good. ( )
  iansales | Dec 18, 2016 |
The story is an average Cold War anti-communist tale (with the twist of the main protagonists being authors) and would have got 3-stars, but it is elevated to 4-stars by the writing ability of Frank Herbert. Wonderful writer. Wish he was still around and still writing. ( )
  nwdavies | Aug 21, 2014 |
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In pursuit of a scoop, American journalist Hal Garson follows up on a mysterious, desperate letter that points to the whereabouts of legendary author Antone Luac, who vanished without a trace in Mexico years ago. The celebrated writer's disappearance is an enduring mystery, and Garson senses this story will make his career. Despite warnings, he travels to isolated Ciudad Brockman and begins asking questions ... too many questions, which place him in the crossfire of a local crime lord, a Communist insurgent group, and finally to the imprisoned writer-and his beautiful daughter-who may not want to be found.

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