OPERATOR 5 Purple Invasion: Reading Pulp in The Age of Trump

Timing is everything, especially when you're reading pulp novels.

When I first began reading the Operator 5 Purple Invasion Saga three years ago, it seemed...quaint. A kind of alternate history in which totalitarian European forces (aka, "a very veiled Germany with a Geller-ese name") took over the United States in the height of the Great Depression....and one man - Jimmy Christopher, espionage agent - led resistance efforts to free our country.

(Think of it as the 24 of the 1930s, on...