The Poison Rose (2019)
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Inspired by classic film noir, "The Poison Rose" stars Carson Phillips, an ex-football star turned...
Groovy Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Fraser
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Acclaimed on first publication, Harriet Vyner's 'Groovy Bob' is the cult biography of hedonistic...
Fathom (1967)
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Light spy thriller based on an unpublished novel by Larry Forrester. A beautiful American skydiver...
George of the Jungle (1997)
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George (Brendan Fraser) has raised himself since since he was a baby and a plane crash stranded him...
Bell-Bottom George (1943)
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Morale-boosting wartime George Formby musical comedy. George Formby joins the Royal Navy, stops the...
The Four Musketeers (1974)
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Second half of the Salkinds' all-star adaptation of Dumas' famous swashbuckling novel, this time...
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
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During an expedition to Iceland, professor Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser), his nephew Sean (Josh...
David McK (3227 KP) rated Commander (Jack Lark #10) in Books
Aug 7, 2022
To be clear: that's neither a con nor a pro: just something to be aware of!
In this one, the latest at the time of reviewing, Jack Lark is in Egypt, between employment (well, of a salubrious sort), when he is offered the opportunity to join an expedition into the Sudan, taking charge of new recruits in doing so.
What follows is the delays and danger (both of the natural variety as well as the man-made) of such an expedition into the wilderness, including the hunting of Elephants for ivory (on an industrial scale), slave trading and other such unsavoury pursuits which the expedition both aims to take part in and to stop.
As for Lark himself? He comes across as more melancholy than I remember from previous entries; more given to introspection than before. However, he also seems to end the novel in a better place than when he started: let's see how long that lasts!
The Last Legionnaire
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Paul Fraser Collard's Jack Lark series continues with The Last Legionnaire, which sees Jack marching...