Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Real Risks." To back up Lo's bluster, Red China passed the word that its 200 million-man (and woman) militia had gone into serious training. The mainland press reported shrilly that units on the Yunnan border were engaged in intensive bayonet and machine-gun drill; men and women in blue boiler suits marched briskly through Peking streets with rifles slung...
Bundie, meanwhile, had begun edging away from the confusion in a somewhat nervous manner. "I suppose I should find out who had that gun, but something tells me that this ...er... note is more important." In a few seconds, Biff had left the Biology Lab courtyard and was on his way back to Police Headquarters...
Bundie shoved the piece of green and white paper back into his pocket. "The whole thing was too overpowering," he thought. "Two murders, a mysterious phone call, a man with a gun." Suddenly the Chief rose from his desk, snapping Biff out of his reverie...
...brewer who was kidnaped by the notorious Barker-Karpis gang in 1934, gained freedom 22 days later on payment of a $200,000 ransom, but had seen and heard enough despite attempts to keep him blindfolded to help the FBI track down his 15 abductors, who either died in gun battles (Ma Barker, her son Fred) or went to prison; of a heart attack; in Pompano Beach...
MIDNIGHT PLUS ONE by Gavin Lyall. 249 pages. Scribner. $4.50. Lewis Cane, hero of this adventure yarn, is a former British agent who ran guns for the French Resistance during World War II. After 15 years of private-eying, he finds himself back on the Continent convoying a fugitive millionaire industrialist from Brittany to Liechtenstein. In the course of dodging everyone from police to the hired killers who are after the industrialist, Cane retraces his old Resistance route through the Auvergne, encountering wartime friends and enemies and fighting several pitched battles along the way. British Author Lyall...