Word: robbinses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE ADVENTURERS by Harold Robbins, 781 pages, Trident. $5.95.
While Harold Robbins (The Carpetbaggers) was writing The Adventurers, Leon Shimkin, his publisher, took a peek at a half-finished page and asked what happened next. "I don't know," replied Robbins. "The damned typewriter broke. I'm waiting for a guy to fix it." Fixing the typewriter...
The Adventurers' international-jet-set subjects would confound a Zola. In the hands of Robbins they become like the projections of CinemaScope: highly colored, nine times larger than life, and relentlessly two-dimensional. One of the projections is Diogenes ("Dax") Xenos, diplomat, soldier, businessman, patriot, politician, international satyr and...
Clichés in Clutches. To keep the customers interested, Robbins has tried every trick in his carpetbags, which means almost every bizarre sexual practice-plus once in a while a little kissing. Take all that away and the reader is left with an utterly baffling story about pseudopolitical intrigues...
10. The Adventurers, Robbins