Book Report: The Parisian Affair by Nick Carter (1981)
This completes my recent reading of three great novels set in Paris (the others:
The Three Musketeers and
Hunchback of Notre Dame). This book, number 148 of about 260 featuring Killmaster Nick Carter, offers everything a growing boy needs. The action and the story are tied together. The story moves. The cover's not as lurid as one would hope from a paperback original, but one can learn to accept.
Plot Summary / Spoiler Alert!
Nick Carter is ambushed, saves damsel, sleeps with damsel; Nick Carter is ambushed, kills a couple ambushers, one escapes; Nick interviews model who might be an expert assassin, sleeps with her; Nick is in building that explodes; Nick sleeps with woman he saved; Nick ambushes model, kills level bosses, discovers model is only a junkie; Nick finds another model, dead, declines to sleep with her; Nick drives Ferrari fast; Deus ex maquina encounter as Nick discovers big boss and kills him; Nick drives Ferrari fast, rescues his boss; book ends with more implied sleeping with damsel formerly in distress.
Fortunately, no trained goats tempted Nick, or it would have been a much different story.
Now, I can read some quality junk fiction to clean some from my shelves.
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