{"id":14392,"date":"2015-03-24T05:37:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T10:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14392"},"modified":"2015-03-24T05:37:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T10:37:36","slug":"book-report-kung-fu-2-chains-by-howard-lee-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/24\/book-report-kung-fu-2-chains-by-howard-lee-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Kung Fu 2: Chains<\/i> by Howard Lee (1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Book<\/a>This book<\/a> finds Caine in the mountains, looking for his brother. He encounters some fellows who don’t like Chinamen and calmly dissuades them from attacking him and then walks into a local fort to inquire about his brother and to talk to an accused murderer who shared a mining claim with his brother. The murderer is accused of killing one of the other mining claim partners. Of course, the guys in the fort recognize Caine as a wanted man and shackle him to the accused murderer. These are the physical chains of the title.<\/p>\n

The duo escape and try to make for the mining camp to find out what happened to the other partners, including Caine’s brother. Along the way, they encounter hostile Indians, a trapper who doesn’t like Caine’s chainmate and the sister of another partner in the mining claim and her tenderfoot husband, and the fellows from the opening reappear with hostile intent.<\/p>\n

The story moves along more linearly than the first volume of the series<\/a> and more like a teleplay. It’s a quick and engaging read and lightly heady enough with traces of lightweight Buddhist thought to make one think a bit and compare some of the tenets to Stoic thought if one happens to be reading both at the same time. So better than a lot of men’s adventure novels.<\/p>\n

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