XIII Book 9 - For Maria

XIII Book 9: For Maria

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XIII (I refuse to call him Jason McLane yet because I'm waiting for Van Hamme to pull the rug under that belief any book soon) is down in South America with Major Jones, the two sunning themselves and reacquainting themselves with the Marquis and Betty, when a message comes though that his wife needs rescuing... And it's a wife he never knew about!

Our presumption all along this tale is that it's a set-up and not another forgotten alias of our hero's, nonetheless he goes out looking and find a former step-mother instead, and more bullets flying than are good for anyone.

The tale revolves around a series of stereotypical corrupt political shenanigans of constant military takeovers vs guerrillas funded by communist regimes as XIII proceeds to at least rescue this woman who's supposedly his wife. While I'm usually put off by these scenarios it gives Vance a chance to draw new exotic localities and Van Hamme simply uses the scenario as a backdrop, developing his lead characters further still, subtly, but in intriguing ways, leaving us which way they may be heading, though no doubt not revealed too soon when this particular storyline concludes in the next book.

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