TELEPATHY? WITHCRAFT? MAGIC?
TO THIS DAY, HANK JANSON cannot clearly define the sinister influence that overtook him and an uninvited but attractive companion in the dark island where voodoo is an everyday experience. The fate the girl suffered, and which all but embroiled the tough newshound himself, were proof enough that these horrific pagan rituals still wield an uncanny supernatural power.

HANK JANSON'S personal experiences in straight crime-reporting, big-scale international assignments and sheer good, hard living provides an endless fund of virile stories.
His prodigious energy and lively mind have combined to produce one of the most prolific and wide-ranging thriller writers of the age.

© Roberts & Vintner Ltd 1964

WHAT THIS STORY IS ABOUT

By all the hazards, this exciting adventure merited Hank Janson the last thing anyone wants - an epitaph - especially an epitaph in "some corner of a foreign field". Hank himself says the Chicago Chronicle will one day owe him a monument. But newsmen don't get monuments, or even medals, though often called upon to face battle dangers with no more armament than a ballpoint pen.
Janson is pursuing his globe-trotting assignment to uncover for his paper what really goes on in the trouble-spots of the world - over and above what the public is allowed to hear from official sources. He learns plenty from the struggle in the Yemen between Sallal's revolutionary government forces and the fierce-fighting tribesmen of the deposed Imam.
Hank's tale of blood and sweat in this hot and rugged territory will make you marvel at his powers of survival. But there is humour to soften the hardship - especially in his role as a modern Sancho Panza; generous comradeship to ease the way; and episodes of Middle-Eastern fulfilment with the enticing Zoe, houri of the friendly Raschid, and with the worldly Georgette.

© Roberts & Vintner Ltd 1963