Stars & Stripes (The
Black Stiletto #3)
By Raymond Benson
ISBN #978-1608090723
Oceanview Publishing
Price $25.95
284 Pages
Rating 5-Stars
“A Great Action Series!”
Judy Talbot remains in the nursing home, while her
granddaughter runs into problems in New York. Martin Talbot is afraid that his
daughter is taking on some semblance of Judy’s alter ego, The Black Stiletto.
Meanwhile, it’s 1960 in Judy’s diary, and lots of stuff is going on. It’s a
presidential election year, and she becomes a Kennedy Girl, working as a
volunteer at the New York Democratic Party election campaign headquarters.
Naturally, she discovers a Russian plot to assassinate both Kennedy and Nixon,
plus she has ventured into Chinatown with drastic results. Both Russians and
the Chinese tong want to kill her, and the Mafia were mere children compared to
these groups.
This is a great series, well written, good story
telling, with just the right mix of action and plot to keep the story
interesting. Each novel records a year in the diary of The Black Stiletto, who
was active from 1958 to 1963. She fought crime, the mob, spies, and Nazis, as
well as Chinese tongs. She dresses in black, carries a sharp blade, a rope, and
uses her fighting ability to take down the bad guys. What more could the reader
want? This is one of the best new action series out today. Highly recommended.
Tom Johnson
Detective Mystery Stories
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