MISSING LINKS - BOOK 'EM, MURDOCK

'THE A-TEAM'
"THE MALTESE COW"

         "Mack Murdock was tired of paper cups and paper plates and bleary eyed broads with yellow teeth. This trip to Chinatown was like a ride on a neon horse: the hot sounds, the smell of grease crashing in on him. And he remembered Sam Ying and that night in Saigon when he and the A-Team huddled in the basement of Sam's house. And rocket fire blew holes in the walls. And it was scorched into his memory. "
- "Howling Mad" Murdock

Murdock had to find inspiration for that style of narration for his latest delusion - that he was a private eye.

I'd like to think he was mimicking the writing style of the late Alan Mallory, the author of lurid potboilers for Greenleaf Publications, but who was penning "Sixty Miles To Saigon" for Geoffrey Neal's publishing company (with an eye to a future movie starring Rock Hudson.)

BCnU!