The Master of Dragons H BedfordJones 9781928619611 Books
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Two soldiers-of-fortune lead a string of wild adventures in China. "The Devil’s Hat-Rack"—With their lives hanging in the balance, can O’Neill’s fast wits outsmart Governor Wang? "The Blue Beetle"—With an ancient objet d’art, O’Neill and Burket run afoul of the spiteful General Cheng. "The Death Trap"—The diabolically clever General Shao looks to rid the world of two American soldiers of fortune. "The Master of Dragons"—The discovery of an imperiled young woman in Soochang nearly leads O’Neill and Burket to prematurely ascend the dragon. With an introduction by Tom Roberts. More thrilling adventures from the master story tell H. Bedford-Jones!
The Master of Dragons H BedfordJones 9781928619611 Books
Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones was born in Naponee, Ontario, in 1887 and spent the first twenty years or so of his life in western Canada before moving to the U.S. He started selling fiction to the pulp magazines in 1911, and that's where the vast majority of his work appeared during a career that lasted nearly forty years. Unlike Frederick Faust or Erle Stanley Gardner, who were also referred to as the King of the Pulps at times, Bedford-Jones achieved nearly all of his success in the pages of the pulps, never knowing the sort of acclaim in other media that those other two writers did. That's why I think he's more deserving of the title.This volume contains three short stories and one novella about a pair of American soldiers of fortune, Terence O'Neill and Bert Burket, getting into and out of trouble in a China ruled by various warlords during the late 1920s. The excellent introduction by publisher Tom Roberts puts the stories into historical perspective and also provides some interesting information about Bedford-Jones's research methods. As usual, Bedford-Jones crams quite a bit of plot into these yarns, and there's always an intriguing twist or two. Also, his prose is crisp and clean and has aged very well. People who think all pulp writing was purple and overblown have never read Bedford-Jones.
Those stories, originally published in 1932 and '33, would have made an excellent Thirties adventure film starring maybe Randolph Scott or Clark Gable as O'Neill and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams or Victor McLaglen as Burket. I can see it in my head with no trouble. Although they were contemporary to the time Bedford-Jones wrote them, you can read them now as historical adventures and thoroughly enjoy them. I know I did. Highly recommended.
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The Master of Dragons H BedfordJones 9781928619611 Books Reviews
Here are four stories by the master of pulp adventure fiction HB-J. The review could honestly stop right there. But that would be a disservice to Tom Roberts who published this volume and wrote it's excellent introduction.
Thus we go on. The tales in master of dragons were originally published in the early ‘30s and they all take place in the chaotic civil unrest of the China of that day.
Flying in their “Fokker two-seater painted a brilliant jade green”, two devil-may-care footloose freebooters come up against Governor Wang, General Cheng and others to outwit, outfox, out play, and survive the warlords of HB-J's fantasy China.
I am a huge fan of Bedford-Jones. The man produced more stirring adventure fiction than anyone else over a span of 40 years. I have read well over 300 of his novels and short stories and only found two that were middle-of-the-road or underdeveloped.
You can't go wrong with HB-J or Black Dog Books for that matter. So sit back, relax, and have fun. Recommended to the max.
One of my favorite books about the practical craft of being a full-time fiction writer is called The Graduate Fictioneer and was written by H. Bedford-Jones. It gave away all his writing secrets, but it hardly mattered since no one could possibly write like Bedford-Jones, as Erle Stanley Gardner avowed in that book's introduction. In The Master of Dragons we get a taste of just how good a story teller Bedford-Jones was.
All the tales in "The Master of Dragons" take place in China after the fall of imperial power, when every general, bandit or warlord grabbed cities and provinces, looting temples, shooting citizens and generally running amok. Against this turbulent background we have two friends, O'Neil and Burket, ("foreign devils" to he Chinese) adventuring, living by their wits, escaping death at every turn, and generally having the times of their lives, no matter how short those lives may be. Since the stories are presented in the original order, they form a loosely connected novel, starting with "The Devil's Hat-Rack" and ending with "The Master of Dragons."
There is no social commentary to these stories, other than objective observations about a society in chaos. Neither are the stories morality tales, for the protagonists are often as ruthless, if not more, than their foes, but they always act with a good-natured openness and a broad sense of humor. These stories exist not to teach lessons but to entertain, and they do that very well. They are adventure stories, a genre that has almost vanished, submerged these days beneath a morass of relevancy, political correctness and societal guilt. Lacking those qualities, the stories are exciting, guilty pleasures of the first order, existing for no other reason to give a vicarious thrill.
H. Bedford-Jones is as unknown now as he was popular in his day. A magazine with his name on the cover could be assured of a boost in sales. In his time he wrote hundreds of novels and short stories, but they are difficult to find. Fortunately, small publishers like Black Dog Books are bringing them back into print, letting a new generation know why Bedford-Jones was not just a "graduate fictioneer" but a "master Fictioneer."
Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones was born in Naponee, Ontario, in 1887 and spent the first twenty years or so of his life in western Canada before moving to the U.S. He started selling fiction to the pulp magazines in 1911, and that's where the vast majority of his work appeared during a career that lasted nearly forty years. Unlike Frederick Faust or Erle Stanley Gardner, who were also referred to as the King of the Pulps at times, Bedford-Jones achieved nearly all of his success in the pages of the pulps, never knowing the sort of acclaim in other media that those other two writers did. That's why I think he's more deserving of the title.
This volume contains three short stories and one novella about a pair of American soldiers of fortune, Terence O'Neill and Bert Burket, getting into and out of trouble in a China ruled by various warlords during the late 1920s. The excellent introduction by publisher Tom Roberts puts the stories into historical perspective and also provides some interesting information about Bedford-Jones's research methods. As usual, Bedford-Jones crams quite a bit of plot into these yarns, and there's always an intriguing twist or two. Also, his prose is crisp and clean and has aged very well. People who think all pulp writing was purple and overblown have never read Bedford-Jones.
Those stories, originally published in 1932 and '33, would have made an excellent Thirties adventure film starring maybe Randolph Scott or Clark Gable as O'Neill and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams or Victor McLaglen as Burket. I can see it in my head with no trouble. Although they were contemporary to the time Bedford-Jones wrote them, you can read them now as historical adventures and thoroughly enjoy them. I know I did. Highly recommended.
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