Black Towers to Danger
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Drilling for oil is a dirty business, and for Bill Murphy, it's about to turn positively filthy. But Murphy's as big and tough as his home state of Texas and he's more than a match for everything the oil-rich land of Venezuela can throw at him. Everything, that is, except for one woman.... Her name is Marcia Stewart. She's fiery, she's brave, and she's beautiful ... and she'd like nothing better than to see Bill Murphy dead. Her oilman father's been killed, and Marcia tags Murphy as the murderer. Murphy's guilty of a lot of things, but murder's not one of them. He's drilling down for the truth, and now it's his land, his love for Marcia-and his life-that are on the line. With so much at stake, he'll go to any length to come out on top of the Black Towers to Danger.
"Readers looking for a quick dose of escapism will be pleased." - Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The fast-moving action that's a trademark of Hubbard's pulp fiction is present from the very first page of this exciting novella (set in South America), which is stronger on plot than on character. The pressure's on Bill Murphy, a Texas oilman who owns wells in Venezuela, after a new government order about "concession improvement" gives him just 30 days to prove that one of his wells will produce oil. That's not all. An American competitor named Stewart has just been murdered, and Stewart's attractive daughter, Marcia, believes Murphy is responsible. Marcia tells the men under her command to shoot Murphy on sight, but he survives long enough to be taken into custody by the corrupt local police. Will he manage to escape long enough to clear his name and get his well to produce? There aren't a lot of surprises, but readers looking for a quick dose of escapism will be pleased.
