Review
“One of the good things about the book is that it's a fine Hemingway pastiche.”—Bill Crider [Act of Violence]
“Heatter’s novels accentuated the adventure whether it be icy mountain tops (Act of Violence), ships wrecked (Virgin Cay), or gun smuggling in Europe (The Mutilators).”—bare*bones ezine
“The plot, the beautiful babes, the fast-paced banter, and the breezy style all remind me very much of the Carter Brown books.”—James Reasoner, Rough Edges [My Gun, Her Body]
About the Author
BASIL HEATTER Basil Heatter, the son of radio commentator Gabriel Heatter, was born on Long Island on March 26, 1918. He attended schools in Connecticut, then went abroad when was 16 for a two year travel stint through Europe. Returning to America, he went to work for a New York advertising agency. He enlisted in the Navy in 1940 and during WWII served as a skipper on a P.T. boat in the Southwest Pacific. Besides being a news commentator himself, Heatter wrote twenty novels of intrigue and adventure—beginning with The Dim View in 1946, the story of a young PT boat skipper—as well as several non-fiction works revolving around his love of the sea. In fact, he lived for years off Key West on his own self-built sailboat, The Blue Duck. He died on June 12, 2009, in Miami, Florida. PAUL CONANT Paul Eugene Conant was born in San Bernardino, California, in 1906. He worked as a copy reader in Fort Lewis, Washington, in 1942. He wrote one novel under his own name and two under the name Gene Paul (both published by Lion Books). Conant died in New York in 1968. JEFF BOGAR Jeff Bogar was a British hardboiled house-name used between 1950 and 1955. “Jeff Bogar” is the main character in most of the books, which were first published in paperback by Hamilton & Company or Panther Books. Lion Books reprinted two of them in the U.S., changing the titles in each case. The Bogar name was predominantly used by Leslie Barnard (the father of crime writer Robert Bernard and author of My Gun, Her Body), although at least three writers also used the name. Later, it was taken over by Ronald Wills Thomas, who changed the Bogar character considerably.
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