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The thrilling 1st installment in Pulitzer Prize–winning author John P. Marquand’s classic espionage series featuring Imperial Japan’s most skillful spy

Capitalizing on his heroic career as a World War I flying ace, Casey Lee agrees to pilot a plane across the Pacific as a publicity stunt for an American tobacco company. But his future as a goodwill ambassador between East and West takes a nosedive when the flight is abruptly canceled. Stranded in Tokyo, his bank account rapidly dwindling, Casey is approached by Mr. Moto, a secret agent with a job to offer. The work entails a matter of grave international importance—and it pays well.
 
Casey accepts the proposition and boards a steamship bound for Shanghai, where his mission will begin. His fellow passengers include Mr. Moto and Sonya, a beautiful exile from White Russia with her own private agenda. When a Chinese man turns up dead in Casey’s stateroom, the trio is caught up in a dangerous game of intrigue and deceit, the outcome of which might just determine the fate of their nations.
 
First serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, John P. Marquand’s popular and acclaimed Mr. Moto Novels were the inspiration for 8 films starring Peter Lorre.
 

Your Turn Mr Moto The Mr Moto Novels Book 1 edition by John P Marquand Literature Fiction eBooks

Angered by being abandoned by the company supporting his flight from Japan to California, Casey Lee agrees to do whatever the mysterious Mr Moto orders him to do – it seems Moto is after secret plans that will double battleships and destroyers cruising range, but with the murder of a man in Casey’s stateroom and his own life in danger, Casey decides to escape the ship he is on with Mr Moto and see a mysterious Chinese man.

Along the way, he meets a gorgeous Russian agent who may have her own agenda, and as the suspense and action grows, both of their lives hang in the balance.

Here is an action and suspense packed thriller by Pulitzer Prize winner, John P Marquand – well written and intriguing since it is set in those pre-World War days when it was becoming all too clear that there might be a war between Japan and the USA – a not to be missed tension filled thriller that kicked off one of the most popular thriller series of its time.

Product details File Size 2867 KB Print Length 281 pages Publisher Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller (August 18, 2015) Publication Date August 18, 2015 Sold by  Digital Services LLC Language English ASIN B010N0057O

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Your Turn Mr Moto The Mr Moto Novels Book 1 edition by John P Marquand Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

Okay, just one guy talking here but I can say I admire Open Road for bringing back books like this that make fiction what fiction should be pure entertainment.

First, if you're looking for the Mr. Moto of the Peter Lorre films this isn't for you. If you want spy pulp at it's finest, however, then you will undoubtedly fall in love with this latest offering from Open Road Media.

Your Turn, Mr. Moto is the story of war pilot Casey Lee who is recruited by Mr. Moto to fly a special kind of aircraft across the Pacific. Like in so many of John P. Marquand's books, the main character realizes he's been duped and subsequently becomes the unwitting hero. The prose is terse, the style intense, and the net result is sheer fun.

Second, the return of this kind of fiction is as welcome a change to today's literary marketplace of "big-name" bestsellers as when Open Road decided to re-publish The Executioner series by Don Pendleton for the first time ever in e-book format. John P. Marquand was before the likes of John le Carré and Ian Fleming, and this book worked with me on so many levels. I can't wait to see if they bring out more volumes in this series. This was a fine novel with writing I admired and appreciate.
In some ways unexpected since the movie character was always on the side of "good" and was a stereo typed oriental. The book had him as very smart and appealing character, non-stereo typed oriental. Story was good, but occasionally became too predictable.
Have always enjoyed the Peter Lorre characterization of Mr Moto in black and white flicks..... VERY intriguing to read what fiction from the mid 30's was aware of and foretelling of the World War 2 dynamics...... and a more nicely-sinister Mr Moro......
This first of the Mr. Moto adventures was originally serialized in the Saturday Evening Post from March 30th to May 4, 1935, as "Mr. Moto Takes A Hand," then published as the novel, "No Hero." American aviator Casey Lee is, indeed, no hero, but a rather bitter and drunken former WWI ace now stuck doing flying stunts. He's in Tokyo to fly a plane across the Pacific for a cigarette company looking for cheap publicity. When that falls through and he makes some derogatory remarks about America, a dapper Japanese gentleman, Mr. Moto, helps him back to his room. Soon. Moto, an agent of the ImperialJapanese government, and his luscious White Russian assistant, have enlisted Casey's help in an espionage plot which, to Casey's eventual shame, may not be in America's best interests.

The fascinations of the Moto series are myriad. First, it's hard to think of a writer as well-regarded as Marquand, except maybe Graham Greene?, who was also essentially a pulp novelist. Second, the plot device of plunking down a relative innocent into the midst of a convoluted spy plot obviously owes much to Marquand -- as well as John Buchan -- so much so that it's a wonder Alfred Hitchcock never made a Moto movie. Third, the moral climate of the stories is remarkable. Not only are the books populated with refugees and set against a backdrop of war-weariness and economic collapse, but here, just a few years before Pearl Harbor, we get the ambivalent character of Moto who is not quite a hero, because it's apparent that Japan and America are likely to clash sooner or later, but certainly not a villain, because Marquand finds much to admire in the Japanese. Beyond this historical interest, they're just good clean fun and still well-worth reading today.
This is the first Mr. Moto spy novel by John P. Marquand. It was published in 1935, prior to World War II and anticipates the future war between Japan and the US. I described the six Mr. Moto novels and their author John P. Marquand in my review of “Mr. Moto Four Complete Novels,” and readers may want to read what I wrote there. Among much else, I pointed out that the movies about Mr. Moto generally portray the Japanese gentleman in a favorable light, while the novels, as this one shows him to be quite ruthless.
This story takes place in Japan and China when Mr. Moto was working as a high official with plenty of power for the Japanese Emperor attempting to help Japan gain dominance in the world. Japan, at the time, felt threatened by the expansions by the US and Russia.
An American aviator, a hero of World War I, is embittered that he is no longer heralded as a hero and has become a drunk who expresses his hatred for the US openly. Mr. Moto sends a beautiful Russian woman to seduce him to perform an act for Japan, and Moto offers him a bribe which the aviator accepts. Neither the aviator nor the reader knows at the beginning what exactly Moto is after and why and who the woman is. While on a ship, a Chinese man enters the aviator’s cabin and tells him that he has a message that he will give him to take to the US intelligent agent in China. This man is soon thereafter killed. The aviator and Moto do not know where the message is. Moto wants it and tries to kill the aviator.
The story is very enjoyable, terse, to the point, information is withheld, as it should be, to prompt suspense, and it is relatively short and can be read in one sitting.
Angered by being abandoned by the company supporting his flight from Japan to California, Casey Lee agrees to do whatever the mysterious Mr Moto orders him to do – it seems Moto is after secret plans that will double battleships and destroyers cruising range, but with the murder of a man in Casey’s stateroom and his own life in danger, Casey decides to escape the ship he is on with Mr Moto and see a mysterious Chinese man.

Along the way, he meets a gorgeous Russian agent who may have her own agenda, and as the suspense and action grows, both of their lives hang in the balance.

Here is an action and suspense packed thriller by Pulitzer Prize winner, John P Marquand – well written and intriguing since it is set in those pre-World War days when it was becoming all too clear that there might be a war between Japan and the USA – a not to be missed tension filled thriller that kicked off one of the most popular thriller series of its time.