The Melting Man

THE MELTING MAN (русское название - "Тающий человек") 'Panda grabbed me by the wrist, hauled me up, dropping her shoulders as she did, and I went cartwheeling over her and hit the floor on my face. Her weight dropped on my back and a pair of long legs took a scissors grip round my neck, almost choking me. '"For proper likings, honey," she said, "we begin with gentle love play." She twisted my right arm hard and I shouted . . .' 'England, France, Switzerland, Italy: things happen¬ing everywhere, not least Miss Panda Bubakar, six' foot four of jolly African man-hunger, my nominee for the year's freshest character.' The Times 'Victor Canning has never been in better form. .. crisp, inventive, witty, terrifying . . .' Sheffield Morning Telegraph 'A first-class professional thriller fringed with inter¬national sophistication.' The Times Literary Supplement 'Another high-spirited Rex Carver adventure well up to Victor Canning's high standard of exuberant ingenuity, with the usual searing finale.' The Daily Telegraph 'Canning - one of the finest thriller writers in the world' (Reader's Digest) 'Splendid entertainment with his excellent private eye, Rex Carver*, haring around Europe at the behest of a beastly millionaire in search of a stolen Mercedes. He is dogged by the millionaire's beautiful stepdaughters, a couple of politely villainous Africans, a coloured man-crazy Amazon (delicious type), an Interpol man and various others... Victor Canning at the top of his form' (Sun) 'Long, exciting and brightly written thriller by a master of the art' (Guardian) 'Crisp, polished and as tense as they come' (Bristol Evening Post) *Other adventures of Rex Carver in Pan Books: THE WHIP HAND DOUBLED IN DIAMONDS