Tanner's Virgin

By Lawrence Block

Book Overview

The CIA, the FBI, the KGB, Interpol--not one of the world's premier intelligence organizations knows quite what to make of Evan Michael Tanner. Is he a spy, a mercenary, a footloose adventurer, or simply a screwball sucker for hopeless causes?

(Actually he's a little bit of all of the above. Plus he never sleeps. Ever.)

One thing's for sure: Tanner's a true romantic, which is why he can't refuse a distraught mother who begs him to rescue her lost, pure-as-driven-snow daughter. Phaedra Harrow (nee Deborah Horowitz) once shared Tanner's apartment but not his bed. And now the virginal beauty's been abducted by white slavers in the Afghan wilderness.

Finding Phaedra will be difficult enough. Bringing her back alive and unmolested may be impossible. And first Tanner will have to swim the English Channel, survive trigger-happy Russian terrorists . . . and maybe pull off a timely assassination or two.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1729420605
• ISBN13: 9781729420607
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

One of the Best Evan Michael Tanner Novels

This entry in the series is extremely funny (the motivation for overthrowing the Russians is a gem!) probably my favorite after "The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep" which started things rolling. I love how the Irish (Tanner contributes and writes articles for the Fenian Society, of course) call him 'Michael' and Eastern Europeans (who know him a Charter Member of The Society for a Free Macedonia, or some such) call him 'Evan': you can just hear the pronunciation -- 'Eh-Vahn'. In 'Tanner's Virgin', the girl in question, who Tanner could never talk into dalliance even though she lived in his apartment, is kidnapped and brought to a brothel in Afghanistan. She goes a little nuts and decides she LOVES the work, but when Tanner rescues her she comes out of her fugue (with some changes still) and can't get over how things have changed. Hearing Tanner finally tell her to shut up about it is quite funny. The ending with 'The Chief' revealing what Tanner actually accomplished in Afghanistan is also funny. All in all, a very successful book.