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This is the great grand-daddy of the Western Adventure novel. In this tale, you will find the antecedents of James Bond's womanizing, the entrapment techniques of Sherlock Holmes, the father and son plotting to 'clean house' and 'restore order' of which Michael Corleone's conferences with Don Vito Corleone are but a faint adumbration and the exemplary fidelity of Penelope which is suggestive of the Marianismo sometimes expressed by today 'liberated' woman. Should you have forgotten that we currently live in a barbarism striving to civilize itself, this book will remind you where this notion originated.

Curiously enough, this book also conforms to the three laws of Fred Williamson. It has (a) a hero who cannot be killed, (b) a hero who has to win the fight and (c) a hero who has to get the girl in the end. These are the three laws that every uptone invulnerable from the Lone Ranger to the Green Lantern to Nelson Mandela swears by as a personal code. The adventures of Odysseus will seem comparable to those of Malcolm X and may give you additional insight into the attraction and appeal of that latter day real life hero.

Nowadays we speak about gratuitous violence on the Cinema Screens. But fortunately or unfortunately, no filmmaker has yet taken to graphically depict how Samson killed thousands of men with the jawbone of an ass or how Odysseus and his son gave the boot to over a hundred unwanted house guests plying for the hand of Penelope. We may all be the better for it. However, should you care to see a hero rise supreme over Gods, Giants, Monsters and men, this is the action blockbuster for you.