This is my favorite cover in the Earl Norman Thrill Books.
This is #4 (ERLE Edition), “Kill Me In Shinjuku”. Published by Berkley in the
US, Earl Norman (Norman Thompson) also published the series in Japan as ERLE
editions. Thompson, himself a karate expert worked in Japan after WWII, and had
connections to the military Stars & Stripes bookstores, and got his books
placed on the racks all over the Far East. He was an actor and stuntman, played
opposite John Wayne in The Barbarian And The Geisha. The nine books in the
Burns Bannion series are a lot of fun. Berkley started the series in 1958 with
“Kill Me In Tokyo”.
Tom
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