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Post by severance on Mar 7, 2010 11:32:52 GMT
Ivor Drummond - The Priests of the Abomination - Mayflower (1971) Back cover blurb: WHO IN HELL'S NAME WERE 'THE FIVE'?
The whole world is ablaze with religious fervour. A new call is burning in the hearts of men, a new message of peace and love. Converts are made by the minute and the money rolls in - to the coffers of a band of prophets called the Five.
WHO IN HELL'S NAME WERE 'THE FIVE'?
Festering in a hotbed of spiritual experiment, these strange and spooky prophets spread their gospel from California to Italy, from London to the Scottish Highlands...Until suddenly, one of them is found dead.
WHY IN HELL'S NAME DID 'THE FIVE' BECOME FOUR?Recently picked this up in the hopes that the premise might be similar to Peter Saxon's The Guardians , but on closer inspection it appears to be closer to Gerry Anderson's The Protectors  Inside cover blurb: Ivor Drummond's very successful suspense novel, The Man with the Tiny Head, introduced three unforgettable characters who have already made their mark and are destined to make a much bigger one.
As many readers in many countries know, the group comprises: Sandro di Ganzarello, an attractively ugly Italian count; Coleridge Tucker III, a lazy young American millionaire; and Jenny - Lady Jennifer Norrington - an aristocratic English girl, beautiful and ruthless, described by one reviewer as 'a honey of a heroine'.
They tangle this time with something very big and very frightening...Oh well, never mind...still sounds pretty good... |
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Post by dem bones on Mar 8, 2010 19:10:05 GMT
it does at that, and another forgotten Mayflower gem into the bargain. let us know how you get on with it, Sev. and i take it that's Lady Jennifer Norrington doing her Kali impersonation on the cover?
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Post by andydecker on Jun 15, 2023 8:29:25 GMT
Ivor Drummond - The Priests of the Abomination (Macmillan UK, 1970, Mayflower, 1971, this edition Pyramid Books, 1973)  Cover found on the net. Thanks to the original scanner.
Ivor Drummond is a one of several pseudonyms of British writer Roger Erskine Longrigg (1929-2000). This was his pseudonym for mostly thrillers. Of interest is maybe the novel The Necklace of Skulls, a Kali adventure of the intrepid adventurers Lady Norrington and friends which got at least 9 books with colourful titles like The Frog in the Moonflower, The Power of the Bug or the Jaws of the Watchdog.
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