BUTLER #3: The Slayboys (1979) by Philip Kirk
Friday, 23. June 2006, 17:15:54
Butler is a former CIA agent who was fired from the CIA for being to critical of the agency, he now works for The Bancroft Institute as a an agent.The Bancroft Institute is considered by the world at large as one of the great scientific enclaves but in reality it fights against military/industrial complex machinations of Hydra.
In this book, Butler discovers that Hydra was behind the assassination of JFK, and that Hydra is out to kill the President again. Butler infiltrates the assassins and stops the attempt after discovering that his old boss in the CIA is behind the plot.
Eventually Butler makes his way to the current power behind Hydra - Swami Coomiswamicurry. The Swami has been using his power to try and take over the world. Butler puts a stop to the Swami but realised that it's only a matter of time before Hydra reorganises and he's back fighting them.
One oddity about Butler is his relationships with women - he has great sex with them but they all seem to treat him with distain claiming that he forced them. In this book, Cora Calloway goads Butler into taking her, forcing him at gunpoint to finish the deed. But she then denies it.
Butler is a nice change of pace for this type of series.
WIDGETIZE
Anonymous # 23. June 2006, 18:31
This is the only book I've read in that particular series. Yes, his relations with women are very peculiar. I do wonder why on earth Hydra would have bothered trying to kill Jimmy Carter.
Anonymous # 23. June 2006, 19:54
Hydra! Come on we all know there Nick Fury's enemy
Anonymous # 23. June 2006, 19:58
Thanks for the link this one will work a little better:
http://www.bookgasm.com/index.php?s=bullets+broads+blackmail+%26+bombs
It will bring up all the columns
AggressorBrad # 24. June 2006, 01:39
Well just like JFK, Carter (called Smith here) was making policies that just upset Hydra.
Bruce,
Thanks for the new link I'll amend it shortly. If you have a look back at my review and comments for Stony Man Doctrine you'll see that there are a hydra of Hydras. Butler's Hydra makes the fourth I've found, perhaps we'll see an all in brawl to see which is the one true Hydra.
Brad