Golgo 13 7
Posted: December 8, 2008 Filed under: Golgo 13 1 Comment »Both stories in this volume were pretty good, though I liked the second one, from the 1970s, a bit more than the first story about spy satellites.
The first story basically features a really creepy, perverted old man who is extremely good at picking things off the sattelite films. He spots a possible rondevous between the leader of the PLO (or some PLO bigwig) and… I think a Russian, I can’t quite recall, and he tries to finagle some power from Bill Clinton and hire Golgo 13 to kill the two. He goes for a bit of a doublecross, and we know how that ends, though there’s an extra bit of… meaning attached to the payback this time. I liked that the story opens with someone spotting a missile being loaded up in Saddam Hussein’s territory, and the main character dismisses it as a fake and something to get people stirred up. Haha.
The second story was better because it involves a better doublecross that Duke Togo has to work his way out of. He’s actually more involved in the story this time, which I like, and he also hooks up with a lady, which he hasn’t done in awhile, either. Not that the sex scenes are neccessary, or even extended or gratuitous, but I love the implication. His client wants to buy a “snipe” instead of an assassination, and I really liked his reasons behind it. The victim was apparently involved in the Weather Underground, which I learned about recently just because a friend of mine is friends with the founder’s son. Plus, you know, the dude’s been in the news recently with the elections and all. I liked that the story was somewhat topical.
Verdict: Duke Togo is still cool. I prefer the stories where he involves himself more, but he’s cool no matter what he does.
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