Is Mike Faraday a hardboiled private eye in the tradition of Phil Marlowe and Mike Hammer or is he a James Bond type of adventurer taking on hordes of mad power-hungry soldiers bent on world domination? In a pulpy adventure story that begins with Faraday and his honey- blonde secretary Stella taking on a case of missing truckers, the sixth Faraday novel takes him on his wildest and most explosive adventure yet. This is a story that has a little bit of everything and is a lot of fun for that, although it is not purely hardboiled detective story or purely men's adventure story.
It has private eye stuff. It has a bumbling incompetent detective approaching Faraday for help. It has a femme fatale named April Dawn. It has a one-eyed mad evil genius who fancies himself the President of a new nation. And a house in a canyon hiding secrets that not even Faraday could possibly have imagined. This story is simply pure pulpy fun. ( )