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Joe Gall Mystery #22
The Last Domino Contract
Someone has stolen a lot of plutonium from America and the US wants it back. That is the basic contract given Joe as he is sent to Korea. As his cover, he is sent in to take the role of a missionary (!) with the assistance of Nan-Cho, a fervent believer who is determined to save his soul.
175 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 1, 1976
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Philip Atlee
35 books8 followersPseudonym of James Atlee Phillips
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Atlee's first book was an expose about local country club members. An avid flyer, he was a member of the Flying Tigers before WWII. He joined the Marines after Pearl Harbor. He ran Amphibian Airways in Burma, probably for the CIA, and it is from this experience that his first Joe Gall book, Pagoda, came.
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Atlee's first book was an expose about local country club members. An avid flyer, he was a member of the Flying Tigers before WWII. He joined the Marines after Pearl Harbor. He ran Amphibian Airways in Burma, probably for the CIA, and it is from this experience that his first Joe Gall book, Pagoda, came.
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December 20, 2023
The Last Domino Contract refers to the domino theory of countries falling to Communism. It introduces a history that is perhaps unfamiliar to many today. Set in the mid 1970’s after the disastrous end to the Vietnam War and a drawdown of American troops in South Korea, the story involves a South Korean government determined to produce its own nuclear weapons. This would be its own nuclear umbrella in case the Americans walked away. It’s also a repressive South Korean government on a Cold War footing fighting for its very existence.
Joe Gall, contract agent for the CIA, is sent undercover in the guise of a Christian missionary to Seoul with the job of finding missing plutonium rods from Oklahoma and Washington only to find no one wants him in Korea, not the Korean CIA or the entrenched American generals. He is quickly personal non grata in both North and South Korea and is in a personal mission to prevent World War 3 whose start appears to only be hours away.
This is a terse adventure where you sense Gall has no allies anymore anywhere.
Joe Gall, contract agent for the CIA, is sent undercover in the guise of a Christian missionary to Seoul with the job of finding missing plutonium rods from Oklahoma and Washington only to find no one wants him in Korea, not the Korean CIA or the entrenched American generals. He is quickly personal non grata in both North and South Korea and is in a personal mission to prevent World War 3 whose start appears to only be hours away.
This is a terse adventure where you sense Gall has no allies anymore anywhere.
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