Annal:1970 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Paperback Original
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 1970. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
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- Edgar Allan Poe Award®
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- 1970 Edgar-Paperback winner
- Score: 10.2
Why me? I was no hero.
Just a war-wise, war-weary combat reporter who’d pushed his luck too far and too long. Still alive and tired of all the dying.
Now all I wanted was a long blonde in a short bikini and a star to steer her by. I cabled my resignation and got the hell out of Asia.
I got as far as Honolulu.
That’s where an old buddy brainwashed me into a mission that would rattle the guts of the most hardened agent. A rescue job behind the Bamboo Curtain. A former British correspondent, now top man in the Chinese news service. A man with lethal…
