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With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 320 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most enduring and widely read authors of our time. As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age. Indeed, from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, there is scarcely a master of imaginative tales who has not paid tribute to L. Ron Hubbard.
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With this second volume, the direction and shape of Hubbard's proposed 10-book sequence, Mission Earth, are becoming clear. Instead of concentrating on the overall theme (will Earth destroy itself before the aliens can conquer it?), Hubbard emphasizes a great amount of seemingly extraneous incident to stretch out his tale into a dekalogy. In place of an epic, he offers a mock epic. This second book is a modern Candide in which alien secret agent Jettero Heller is introduced to the contemporary world in satirical strokes so broad they recall vaudeville sketches. When Heller arrives in New York City, he innocently lands a job with the Mafia, takes a room in a brothel and is taught to drive by a cabbie. Apart from one funny sequence in which FBI agents' praise of J. Edgar Hoover makes him out to be a greater con man and criminal than his targets, most of the attacks (especially on the IRS) are vengeful and humorless.
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- PublisherNew Era
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 8773364762
- ISBN 13 9788773364765
- BindingHardcover
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Book Description Cloth & Boards. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Uk Edition. Hasrdback. Slight shelf wear and small tear to top edge of D/J. Earth is the target of an alien invasion. However, the planet is being destroyed at a rate that will make it unhinhabitable by the time the Voltarians are scheduled to arrive. 431 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). Seller Inventory # 066546
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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Small tear in dj. Intrigue, Betrayal, Blackmail. From the v iolent, heroin-riddled back streets of Turkey to the heart of gov ernment corruption in America, Mission Earth relentlessly hurls i nto a new labyrinth of Earth's underworld, torn by Mafia wars and criminal rivalry, abounding with assassins, killers, prostitutes , drug-runners, and subverted government agents, the gripping sto ry masterly twists and turns with its heart-pounding pace. The fi erce, unique blend of tension, ingenuity, humor, betrayal and tra gedy continues. Seller Inventory # 1c
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