Bombshell

Honey West #9

by G.G. Fickling

In Bombshell, Honey drives from Long Beach to Moro, FL, when her commercial fisherman friend Raven McCormick sends a cryptic letter about ominous happenings. She is not in town five minutes before she discovers uniformed Nazis who have terrorized the local residents have overrun the town. This is because they have hijacked a nuclear submarine and are going to launch missiles at the entire world in order to put Hitler (yes, he lives! – sort of) back into power.
But do not worry for Honey has an ally in bounty hunter Johnny Doom. Honey herself puts it best when she says, “I realize the whole things sounds rather muddled and straight out of a dime novel.” Unfortunately for the reader, she has written her own review for this novel. The entire novel has the feeling of having been written over a weekend, with such marvelous sentences like, “His glasses fell to the bed, revealing two bulging bloodshot mounds of horror that looked down to an arm wearing a Nazi swastika in awed disbelief.”

143 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1964

About the author

A pseudonym used by Gloria and Forest Fickling.

Reviews

[Michael Gordon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hurricane Honey crashes into a Neo-Nazi party in South Florida. Capitalizing on the spy craze of the Sixties, this reads more like an action adventure than a detective story, complete with a super stylish megalomaniac’s mansion. A fun fusion of pulp and camp.

[Jim Stennett · Rating 4 out of 5]

Classic from the early ‘60s. Honey West, Nazis, a nuclear sub. What’s not to love? Sure, lots of impossible action and plot conveniences, but you ain’t reading this for an education!

[Jeffrey Philips · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun read