Rumble in the Jungle Fight Card Book 13 edition by Jack Tunney Paul Bishop Mel Odom David Foster Literature Fiction eBooks
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Hell’s Kitchen, 1953
Brendan O’Toole is on a downward slide. When his wife dies in a freak car accident, he quits his job and hits the bottle hard. Half tanked in the ring, he allows himself to be knocked out, ending his boxing career.
O’Toole, hits rock bottom. After a night of boozing, he is brutally mugged and left for dead. But O’Toole has friends, even if he can’t see it. One of them is Danny Reilly, a barman with a heart of gold. He arranges for O’Toole to join a construction crew set to work on a hotel being built in the Central African jungle nation of Sezanda. It’s O’Toole’s last shot at redemption.
Sezanda, Central Africa, 1954
As things begin to look up for O’Toole, the Sezandan government is overthrown in a military coup. All foreigners are taken prisoner and locked in concentration camps. O’Toole is sent to the worst, HELL CAMP XXI, under the control of a brutal ex-Nazi, Kommandant Krieger. Krieger has a special way of keeping his prisoners under control. In the camp, he has erected a boxing ring. And anyone who steps out of line is forced to face off against his man-mountain, wrecking machine, Crator – a man whose sole purpose is to inflict pain.
Fate has destined Brendan O’Toole to don the gloves one more time, in a fight not just for his life, but his very soul.
Rumble in the Jungle Fight Card Book 13 edition by Jack Tunney Paul Bishop Mel Odom David Foster Literature Fiction eBooks
At first I thought it was just a story about boxing...boy was I wrong. Very exciting.easy,easy read. I would recommend it.Product details
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Rumble in the Jungle Fight Card Book 13 edition by Jack Tunney Paul Bishop Mel Odom David Foster Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Rumble in the Jungle is yet another top notch selection from Fight Card. This volume takes the reader on a fantastic journey from the boxing rings of Hell's Kitchen to the jungles of Central Africa. Not only is this story filled with great boxing action, but it takes us to the middle of a civil war where surviving Nazis run prison camps. Central to this prison camp is the boxing ring and the punishment inflicted on prisoners therein. Great story. Great writing. Great fiction.
It's 1953 and Brandon "Slugger" O'Toole is suffering from the death of his wife. Becoming an alcoholic his boxing has really hit bottom. After the last fight, his trainer drops him, and he buries himself in the bottle. When a gang of youths rolls him after leaving a bar one night, he's unable to defend himself and beaten badly. Waking up, he's being cared for by the bar owner and his wife. They invite him to their Christmas party, and there he's offered a job with a construction company building a hotel in Africa.
The job in Central Africa is going well until rebels, the Sezanda Socialist Army, attempts to take control of the country. Foreigners are captured and taken to Hell Camp XXI, where they are imprisoned under the command of a former Nazi, whose idea of discipline is to have a huge boxer beat the prisoner to death, or near death. When O'Toole interferes with the beating of a young friend, he is forced into the ring, but beats the boxer.
This is another top ranked story. Not only do we have good boxing sequences, when the prisoners revolt they capture weapons and a miniature war ensues inside the camp. A British unit was also being held prisoners, and O'Toole had been a marine in WWII, and was equally as good with gun and fists.
I've fallen behind on my Fight Card reading, a situation I'm going to attempt to remedy, beginning with RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE, written under the Jack Tunney house-name by David James Foster, who contributed the first international entry in the series, KING OF THE OUTBACK. In this excellent yarn, boxer Brendan O'Toole, haunted by tragedy and seeking refuge in the bottle, winds up working on a construction crew building a hotel in an African country wracked by revolution. When the Americans are captured by rebel forces, they're tossed into a jungle prison camp known as Hell Camp XXI, which is under the command of a brutal ex-Nazi who stages boxing matches between the prisoners and a giant guard.
If that plot set-up doesn't pull you right into the story, you're made of sterner stuff than I am. Foster does a fine job with the action as the prisoners try to survive and O'Toole has to step back into the ring several times. The boxing scenes are great and Foster keeps the tension building to a satisfying conclusion. This volume is a good reminder of just how entertaining the Fight Card series is, and I hope I can get caught up on it soon. In the meantime, if you haven't read this one, you should give it a try.
I'm no stranger to the Fight Card series. I've read a good handful of them, enjoyed them all. Sitting down to go toe to toe with RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE, I felt I was in familiar territory. Man, was I surprised!
David Foster, writing as Jack Tunney, has created a fist-filled, bullet-ridden, testosterone-fueled all-out action piece that will lay you flat out and seeing stars.
It begins with the hero, Brendan O'Toole, a few rungs above rock bottom and sinking fast. He's lost his wife, crawled into a bottle and can't find his way out of the darkness. Foster does a great job of placing the reader in O'Toole's private hell and when things begin to look up for the man with a new job in South America and, more importantly, a fresh start, we can't help but root for him. But fate isn't done with O'Toole just yet. A military coup lands him in a concentration camp run by a former Nazi and O'Toole's private hell just got a little more crowded.
From here the tale gets serious about putting the pedal to the metal. There are well-depicted fights, fist fly as tension mounts until finally the thing explodes into a hell-for-leather action yarn the likes of which we haven't seen, or read, in decades.
RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE is a great read. If you're a fan of fight fiction, this one's for you. If you're an action junkie who remembers the great two-fisted books and movies of the past, then you do not want to miss this one. Considering how stellar the FIGHT CARD series has been, saying that RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE is one of the best entries is saying plenty. Highly recommended!
At first I thought it was just a story about boxing...boy was I wrong. Very exciting.easy,easy read. I would recommend it.
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