MAX SPEED
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Full Name: |
Max Speed |
Nationality: |
American |
Organization: |
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Occupation |
Reporter |
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Creator: |
Richard Starnes
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Time Span: |
1967 - 1969 |
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ABOUT THE SERIES
Max Speed is a reporter.
He has been one for more years than he cares to remember and he would be the first to admit his was a jaded take on life. Too many airports, too many antiseptic hotel rooms, too many late nights in the bars and waking with someone he didn't know or want to. And too many times writing articles that every reader thinks is terrific and ground-breaking and important and which end up accomplishing nothing of substance. Bitterness is beginning to plague him along with the cynicism too many years on the front lines has made unavoidable.
Though Speed writes for a New York-based magazine, he lives in London, a reward he knows for caving into pressure and stopping scathing attacks on the Vietnam War during its early years, a time he thinks his writing might have made a difference. The push from Washington bureaucracy had been amazingly intense with the word being either he stop or the magazine could fall on harsh times. His employers pushed from their end, too, and Speed relented. It is likely for the unhappiness over his capitulation that Speed risks his life in the two adventures chronicled in the books.
Speed does not function as a spy in any capacity. He is after the story and, to a large degree, the truth. This just happens to put him in the middle of the trouble and it is his wits more than anything else that keeps him alive. And he is determined that nothing will get in his face to find out and report the truth, not his bosses and not the regimes that find his facts unpleasant to see.
BOOKS
Number of Books: | 2 |
First Appearance: | 1967 |
Last Appearance: | 1969 |
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Requiem In Utopia
Written by Richard Starnes
Copyright: 1967
A world famous Swedish author has written a manifesto calling for the end of hostilities around the world. Max Speed is asked to help him get it out into the world. The Russians and the CIA, however, each have their own reason for not wanting it go any further.
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The Flypaper War
Written by Richard Starnes
Copyright: 1969
A small kingdom in the Middle East is one of the few devoid of its own oil reserves but it does have a vital pipeline going through it, for which billions are earned. Now a rebel band is trying to take control and Max Speed is asked on behalf of an American political lobby to report the events. From the middle of the gunplay.
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