This Month's Paperback
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Thriller
Francis Clifford is a master story-teller when it comes to fast-moving thriller fare yet “Act of Mercy” manages to maintain reality in an unreal situation.
Well written, with no sex dragged in just for the sake of sex, it keeps the reader in a high state of excitement until the last page.
Tom Jordan is employed by a British company as manager of a sugar plantation in a South American state. The peace of his life and that of his young wife is shattered when the country erupts with another revolution and they find the ex- President ill and hiding in the bushes in their front garden.
Their first impulse is to aid the sick man but before the end of the day Jordan and his wife, as well as the deposed President, are being hunted as savagely as wild animals. Most of the action takes place when they try to escape over the mountains into the next country. (ACT OP MERCY. Hodder. 80c.)