Doc Savage: The Jade Ogre

by Will Murray, Lester Dent, Kenneth Robeson

Book Overview

A desperate plea for help plunges Doc Savage into a maelstrom of horror aboard the Hong Kong-bound liner Mandarin, where the depraved minions of the phantom predator, Quon, hold sway. As innocent passengers succumb to the insidious Jade Fever, and ghostly talons pursue Doc's beautiful cousin, Patricia, the mighty Man of Bronze races to solve a riddle that defies reason. For deep in the spider-haunted ruins of faraway Cambodia broods a twisted, armless...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1618272187
• ISBN13: 9781618272188
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Altus Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Murray is better than Dent

This story is very authentic. Murray really has Dent nailed. The Jade Ogre is considerably longer than a Dent Doc Savage novel and is paced more sedately, but in almost every other way it reads like a Dent novel from about 1935. It does lack Dent's signature errors and sometimes muddled plotting, but these are not grave flaws.