Title: The Man Who Never Was
Author: Ewen Montagu
Cover artist: uncredited
Yours for: $8
Best things about this cover:
- Exciting to imagine Ghost Major—riding the seas, thwarting the Nazis.
- Less exciting when you find out "the man who never was" was actually an "anonymous corpse" that doesn't reanimate or nothin'.
- This cover manages to be clever without being particularly interesting or exciting.
Best things about this back cover:
- More visual riffs on The Invisible Man theme.
- Silly Germans—Tricks are for Victorious Americans!
- "Operation Mincemeat" sounds like a WWII-themed Looney Tunes short featuring Sylvester and Tweety Bird.
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An attempt at an immediate thrust into the area of SALONICA and THRACE need not be reckoned with.
And that's how Major Martin avoided the clap.
~RP
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