Amok : a novel / George Fox

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Simon and Schuster, c1978Description: 287 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 671226819
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • FIC .F69 1978
Summary: This novel was based partly on actual history. A rogue Japanese WWII soldier who had been hiding in the jungles of the Philippines surrendered to President Ferdinand Marcos in the 1970s. Amok is the Tagalog word for mosquito. The antagonist in the novel is a very skilled warrior who can come and go, as stealthy as the mosquito. The people in the villages have lived in fear of this man. Amok is a relic from WWII. He has spent the past thirty years murdering anybody who crosses his path. Skilled with a katana and versed in the art of woodcraft, he has managed to elude capture. This is a fine war novel. It is violent and may not appeal to everyone.
Item type: Books - Fiction
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Books - Fiction Books - Fiction National University - Manila LRC - Annex Fiction Fiction FIC .F69 1978 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000003706

This novel was based partly on actual history. A rogue Japanese WWII soldier who had been hiding in the jungles of the Philippines surrendered to President Ferdinand Marcos in the 1970s. Amok is the Tagalog word for mosquito. The antagonist in the novel is a very skilled warrior who can come and go, as stealthy as the mosquito. The people in the villages have lived in fear of this man. Amok is a relic from WWII. He has spent the past thirty years murdering anybody who crosses his path. Skilled with a katana and versed in the art of woodcraft, he has managed to elude capture. This is a fine war novel. It is violent and may not appeal to everyone.

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