Wednesday, November 07, 2018

Book review - Moto#3 - "Think Fast, Mr Moto" by John P Marquand

The third published but the first filmed - and it did use some of the novel, not a lot but some, notably a few character names. I wasnt wild about this book - it's about a quite dull hero, another American abroad but in this case someone who works for his family's company, who travels from China to the less interesting Hawaii to shut down a plantation. It's managed by a girl who shares his surname but they're not closely related which is confusing. Far too many pages are devoted to their dull relationship as they chat. There's some intrigue - it turns out the plantation is being used to funnel money in the Japanese-China fight in Manchuria. Moto is on hand and he triumphs so really the "hero" is being used to help Japanese occupation in Manchuria. Nice! (not). There's some okay action at the end but this book lost me by then.

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