Two series I'm not familiar with

[Jim]

TNT by Doug Masters

The Marauders by Michael McGann

Anyone familiar with either of them and can provide a quick synopsis? Are they any good?

[scott1964]

If I recall, The Maurders was in the same line as The Guardians.

[English Teacher X]

TNT was pretty good; it was well written and the stories were fairly original; it veered between being comedic and fairly brutal. It was not your usual CIA/mercenary/hitman shoot-em-up.

Tony Nelson Twin was a journalist who develops super-powers of sorts (basically just really heightened senses, as I recall) as a result of being in the "eye" of an atomic explosion. He is recruited by a CIA-type named Benedict Arnold (something) to go on various bizarre missions, usually involving massive deathtraps which he circumvents with his special powers.

For example, in one, there was a giant garden full of poisonous plants of all types, and only he could succesfully wend his way through it.

There are quite a few of these still availabe on Amazon, and I recommend them.

[englishteacherx]

More about TNT --

I remembered the TNT series as being so bizarre I had to go to my mother's attic and dig them out and re-read them. They are truly even more bizarre than I remember -- there's a lot of sex in them, as one of TNT's super-powers is a continuous erection.

I haven't been able to find out anything about the author (or authors) of the books, but I notice on the title page that it says they were "translated by Victoria Reiter"?!!?!? Where could these books have come from? Also I think they were originally published in the 70's, since the second book THE BEAST has some parts set in Iran, and they mention the Shah still being in control.

Anybody else have any information?

[mullerfokker]

hello
new user here.
well, about the TNT serie : it was created in france, between 1978 & 1980, by two authors under the pen name of Michael Borgia. 9 books were written.

here is the french wikipedia entry : fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Nicholas_Twin

[PMP Webmaster]

Mullerfokker - thanks for the heads up, and the link (pity I don't speak French).

And thanks also for signing up - glad to see this message board still gets some good use!