Alien Redrum wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 7:36 pm
Holy fucking shit. They didn't even bother to go with something different than the mob. Was the mob the only bad guys in the '70s?
Love that the heroin dealer is the Chinaman and the guy who's healing him is an Indian. My god, they are doing all the racist cliches.
This would have NEVER been written today. The author would be gone, fast and furious.
Speaking of Indian, of course the main character is found to be part Cheyenne. Of course.
Yeah, they were still the good enemy in the 70's. But it kills me because the mob never really got to the west coast. They used to send the witness protection mobsters to the west coast because the mafia wasn't really anything out here. It went as far as Nevada really, and that was about it. So none of this would be happening.
Not that there's any realism in the book to begin with...
And yeah, it's racist af. Looking at the time it was written and the who it was written for, I'm going to say in 1973 it probably wasn't racist and may have even been progressive. lol
Having finished the whole thing, what it really reminds me of as far as story and style go, is an old pulp. Like The Shadow or Doc Savage.