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Saint on Guard (Hardcover)

by Leslie Charteris (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 190 pages
  • Publisher: Amereon Ltd (Dec 1982)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0891903860
  • ISBN-13: 978-0891903864
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 14.5 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,550,898 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Below par, but still worth a read !, 1 May 2002
This review is from: Saint on Guard (Paperback)
For those unused to Charteris or the phenomenon of "The Saint", it is an unexpected pleasure to pick up a book written so long ago (1945) and find it so readable.
There are two stoies here: "The Black Market" and "The Sizzling Saboteur", both based in wartime America.
Although very occasional parts of the writing do appear slightly dated, the plots and characterisations are sophisticated yet not belaboured. There are very very funny moments, and points of real suspense. Charteris must be one of the most under-estimated authors : some of the "Saint" books are absolute classics (such as "The Saint's Getaway" and "The Saint and Scotland Yard"), and Charteris never repeats a plot-line.
Whilst this isn't up on the level of those other books mentioned, this is certainly worth the read.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Saint Saga Nº 25, 25 Jul 2007
By Paul Magnussen (Campbell, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This 1945 opus finds the Saint battling black-marketeers and Nazi saboteurs.

The catastrophic slide in quality that started with The Saint Goes West continues. In dismal contrast to early classics like The Last Hero, "The Saint On Guard" is both preachy and leaden; the plots of the two stories here are formulaic and drearily predictable; and the villains are straight from Central Casting. The old friends are all absent; but this may be a good thing, considering the procrustean torturing of Iron John Fernack (from The Saint in New York) into the pathetic Teal-substitute of "The Black Market". And whoever invented Olga Ivanovitch the Beautiful Russian Spy clearly had a much shakier grasp of Russian than Charteris had of French, German and Spanish.

A very few passages show the old Charteris touch, in particular the near-breaches of the Fourth Wall that started right at the beginning with Meet the Tiger. For instance Simon, explaining the iridium black market to Fernack, remarks:

"You make us remind me of the opening characters in a bad play, carefully telling each other what it's all about so that the audience can get the idea too."

But by and large, for hard-core Saint aficionados only.
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