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    The Crawling Death: Two-Fisted Todd Adventures, #1
    The Crawling Death: Two-Fisted Todd Adventures, #1
    The Crawling Death: Two-Fisted Todd Adventures, #1
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    The Crawling Death: Two-Fisted Todd Adventures, #1

    By Cora Buhlert

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    1966: Freelance troubleshooter Todd Donovan is hired to locate Dr. Pat Turner, a biologist who has gone missing in the South American jungle. It seems like an easy job at first, but then Todd finds himself staring into the barrel of a gun.

    Captured and taken to the jungle compound of the drug lord Durango, Todd finally meets up with Dr. Turner, who turns out to be not just a beautiful woman, but also Durango's prisoner.

    Durango is not the sort of man to leave potential witnesses alive. And so Todd and Dr. Pat Turner are soon facing a painful end in Durango's pit of crawling death…

    This is a short adventure story of approx. 5500 words or 20 pages in the style of the men's adventure pulps of the 1960s.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPegasus Pulp Publishing
    Release dateJan 13, 2018
    ISBN9781386696605
    The Crawling Death: Two-Fisted Todd Adventures, #1
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    Cora Buhlert

    Cora Buhlert was born and bred in North Germany, where she still lives today – after time spent in London, Singapore, Rotterdam and Mississippi. Cora holds an MA degree in English from the University of Bremen and is currently working towards her PhD. Cora has been writing, since she was a teenager, and has published stories, articles and poetry in various international magazines. When she is not writing, she works as a translator and teacher.

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      Book preview

      The Crawling Death - Cora Buhlert

      The Adventures of Two-Fisted Todd

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      A man with a mysterious past, two-fisted Todd Donovan now works as a freelance troubleshooter for whoever is willing to pay for his services, locating missing persons, rescuing hostages, repossessing stolen goods and tangling with drug lords, dictators, criminals and other lowlives all over the globe.

      These high octane action stories are an homage to the men’s adventure magazines of the 1960s with their lurid covers and breathless prose. So buckle up, step back in time and enjoy an adventure with two-fisted Todd Donovan.

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      The Crawling Death

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      This was supposed to be an easy job.

      Todd Donovan, freelance troubleshooter had been repeating this sentence to himself over and over again these past seven hours. Think of the money. This was supposed to be an easy job.

      Because it was. Lone Oak University had hired him to locate a biologist, one Dr. Pat Turner, who’d taken a sabbatical during the spring term of 1966 and promptly gone missing in the Latin American nation of San Jacinto, while researching rare specimens of something or other in Latin. The University had even helpfully provided Todd with a map of the exact area where Dr. Turner was supposed to be researching the rare specimens of whatever.

      So Todd had flown down to San Jacinto on an ancient DC-4 and rented an equally ancient Jeep to take him to the area where Dr. Turner had been last seen, researching the rare whatevers. Easy, right?

      Except that the area where Dr. Turner had been last seen turned out to a largely uncharted jungle with nothing in the way of roads. Todd drove the rickety Jeep as far as he could, then he continued on foot. For seven fucking hours, he hacked his way through a mosquito ridden jungle at approximately ninety-eight degrees Fahrenheit.

      Okay, so it wasn’t an easy job. But the money was still pretty damn good.

      He’d finally found Dr. Turner’s camp or rather what was left of it exactly where it was supposed to be. Because the camp had clearly been razed, equipment overturned, the radio smashed. And it didn’t look like a random animal attack either. No, this was the work of human hands.

      Though Todd barely had the chance to

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