 "The
Golden Road"
by Peter Bourne
Popular Library, 1952
The back cover reads: "'Give me a REAL kiss!'
She tried to resist, but her soft, slender body was powerless in his
arms. Red Malley was a weakling no more. He took his woman where he found
them, and they loved him for it. But even sensual Lucy the prostitute and
adventurous Abigail, who dressed--and loved--like a man, couldn't steer
Red from his deadly purpose. Three years before he'd left Boston in disgrace
and come here to booming, gold-crazy Panama for one reason: to find the
man who had viciously framed him on a false theft charge. Through swarming
bordellos and sweltering jungle Red hunted relentlessly--until one day
he saw his man--and his chance..."
"The Golden Road" has one of
my favorite--and one of the most unusal--covers I've encountered. You have
your standard buxom beauty, but the real focus of the cover is the glassy
eyed zombie. Where typical cover feature femme fatales, back alleys, and
helpless heroes, a zombie is something to behold. Let me tell you, it takes
real talent to work a zombie into a tawdry paperback. One minute you have
a heated love triangle in the central American boom town and then *bamm*--a
zombie.
The story itself is a mix of a revenge plot
and a coming-of-age adventure placed in a wild west meets a jungle safari
meets a Mexican bandito setting. It has everything an adventurer could
want--and zombies too!
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