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Title: Day of the Destroyers
Author: Gary Phillips
Narrator: Pete Milan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-03-18
Publisher: RadioArchives.com
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
Based on a real historical event during the Roosevelt administration!
Guest starring pulp heroes The Green Lama, The Phantom Detective, and The Black Bat!
Day of the Destroyers is an all-original linked prose anthology - each story is part of a larger arc wherein Jimmie Flint, Secret Agent X-11 of the Intelligence Service Command, battles to prevent the seditionist Medusa Council from engineering a bloody coup overthrowing our democracy.
Agent X-11 fights across the country preventing an aerial assault on Chicagos rail lines, destroying a secret factory of gas meant to enthrall millions in New Mexico, racing to stop a machine of fantastic destruction in Manhattan, and so much more!
Written by pulp fictioneers Ron Fortier, Adam Lance Garcia, Gary Phillips, Paul Bishop, Eric Fein, Tommy Hancock, Aaron Shaps, and Joe Gentile. Introduction by pulp wordsmith Bobby Nash!
Members Reviews:
Pulp secret agent goes up against a conspiracy threatening the US
âDay of the Destroyersâ is a New Pulp linked anthology from Moonstone Books. It stars Jimmy Flint, Agent X-11 of the Intelligence Service Command as he fights against a conspiracy by the Medusa Council to take over the United States.
Jimmy Flint is your typical spy/secret agent character from the pulps, fighting a secret war against enemies, foreign and domestic, of the U.S. A veteran of WWI, a master of various forms of unarmed combat, as well as having various weapons to help him, including a special gun, various items described as pens, and others. He answers to his boss, Number 6, and is aided by his uncle Jack Flint, who is a retired spy known as Falcon-7 who has gathered other former spies as the âShadow Service.â Later in the series he gains a young sidekick. (However, one writer flubbed and referred to Jimmie as âJackâ in his story.)
The Medusa Council is a shadowy group of plutocrats who plan to overthrow FDRâs government in a bloody coup. They have bring in Col. Lucian Starliss, who Jimmy had served with in WWI, to lead this effort. The Colonel was maimed in the war, and now has a mechanical arm and a scarred face. The Medusa Council has people from other countries in the ranks, including mad scientists and more. Interesting, the group is inspired by an apparently real group that planned to do the same, and even tried to recruit Major Gen. Smedley Butler, who turned them down.
In addition to Jimmy, some stories have other pulp heroes âcross over.â The Green Lama appears in Adam Lance Garciaâs tale. The Black Bat and Phantom Detective show up in a couple of others, the Bat working solo with the Phantom teaming up. And we get a new pulp character, Gray Face, who is a counter-spy and takes out some of the Councilâs agents.
As noted, this is a linked anthology, not a short story collection or a novel. The 12 parts were written by different authors, all under the direction of Gary Philips, who edited the book and wrote some of the parts. So I would recommend reading them in order, which is what I did.
Now, if Jimmy Flint seems familiar, thatâs a fair assessment. This work stated with the plan that this would be an Operator #5 collection, and announced as such. But Argosy Communications decided to pull the rights for all their characters from Moonstone to take them to Dynamite.
