A desperate plea for help plunges Doc Savage into a maelstrom of horror aboard the Hong Kong-bound liner Mandarin, where the depraved minions of the phantom predator, Quon, hold sway. As innocent passengers succumb to the insidious Jade Fever, and ghostly talons pursue Doc's beautiful cousin, Patricia, the mighty Man of Bronze races to solve a riddle that defies reason. For deep in the spider-haunted ruins of faraway Cambodia broods a twisted, armless gargoyle with a cold face of jade--The Jade Ogre--whose power to project his deadly, disembodied arms to any place on earth makes him the most dangerous foe Doc Savage has ever confronted
This story is very authentic. Murray really has Dent nailed. The Jade Ogre is considerably longer than a Dent Doc Savage novel and is paced more sedately, but in almost every other way it reads like a Dent novel from about 1935. It does lack Dent's signature errors and sometimes muddled plotting, but these are not grave flaws.
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