{"id":4879,"date":"2009-07-13T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4879"},"modified":"2020-08-19T14:32:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T19:32:39","slug":"book-report-the-black-death-by-nick-carter-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/13\/book-report-the-black-death-by-nick-carter-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Black Death by Nick Carter (1970)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the book had no icepickings, but it had a bunch of murder and mayhem.  This is the 56th book in this paperback series following a Killmaster for the secret agency AXE.  Nick goes with a revolutionary to Haiti; she wants to invade, he wants to extract a physicist who is building the Haitian bomb.  Carter recognizes their guide as a KGB agent with his own agenda.  The plot utlimately gets explained as an afterthought.  A Haitian nuke?  Ah, who cares, BANG BANG naked woman BANG BANG knifing explosion naked woman.  That&#8217;s why one reads pulp.<\/p>\n<p>As an addendum, I said this when I read <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/17\/book-report-the-parisian-affair-by-nick-carter-1981\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another Nick Carter novel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul><i>Fortunately, no trained goats tempted Nick, or it would have been a much different story.<\/i><\/ul>\n<p>All I have to say about that is <i>this book features a trained goat<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=B000KABRUW\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the book had no icepickings, but it had a bunch of murder and mayhem. This is the 56th book in this paperback series following a Killmaster for the secret agency AXE. Nick goes with a revolutionary to Haiti; she wants to invade, he wants to extract a physicist who is building the Haitian bomb. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4879"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26722,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879\/revisions\/26722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}