All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By by John Farris

But for readers willing to suspend heaps of disbelief: a lively, often scenic, thriller/fantasy hodgepodge. No exploration of that lost civilization, then and too much hard-to-swallow folderol along the way. And much blood-and-thunder stuffing, international-melodrama style, ensues-before they finally do get into the catacombs. Jade retrieves Patty-Hearst-like Raun Hardie, daughter of the dead archaeologist who first found the catacombs, from a Colorado prison she'll help Matt parachute right onto the slope near the catacomb. Of all his prized sons, his youngest, 'Clipper' Bradwin, is the most promising. The family head, General 'Boss' Bradwin, is a famous army officer. The groom's parents are the Bradwins, one of the oldest and most distinguished families in Virginia. while KGB superspy Michael Belov also gets in the act. All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes by - John Farris - Google Books. Enter, then: super-agent Matthew Jade, who's assigned to steal the bloodstones for the US.

Erika Weller, co-leader of the Weller/Chapman expedition, has spent six months studying the artifacts of her digs at a prehistoric burial ground near Lake Tanganyika-only to have fellow archaeologist Henry Landreth steal the red-diamond bloodstones they've found, stones which contain (in pictograph) the history of an advanced cat-people civilization that flourished 10,000 years ago and is still in suspended animation in a gigantic catacomb hollowed out of Mount Kilimanjaro! (The catacomb is protected by FIREKILL, a forcefield merging gravity with the earth's electro-magnetic core.) Landreth has sold the stones to Tanzanian leader Jumbe Kinyati so now Jumbe has the crucial pictographs for building a FIREKILL whose field will repel any nuclear force sent against it, and he offers his formula to the USSR and the US-whichever one gives him guided missiles within 30 days (he plans to run the white government out of South Africa).

Rider Haggard occult-adventure-something like a nuclear cross between She and King Solomon's Mines. In a marked improvement, Farris gives up his slobbering ghouls (All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By, The Fury) for a foolish but evocative, updated H.

All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By by John Farris