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Feast of the Scorpion

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Written in 1975 this Pattinson thriller is just as good as those written thirty years or more after it, in fact I can't think of a better Pattinson book than Feast of the Scorpion. In Feast of the Scorpion Englishman Mark Aston is working for the Anglo Insurance Company in the Central American city of Mendoza. His apartment has a pretty good view in both directions up the Avenida Alimirante Diaz where the Feast of the Scorpion festival's parade celebrating the defeat of the Spanish will venture down. This view is rather attractive to a group of mercenaries who wish to be inside his apartment during the parade. He doesn't really want them there but they are the friends of a beautiful woman he is dating who recently moved in with him and although he doesn't know much about her he knows if he refuses he will never see her again.

James Pattinson writes in an old man style where his characters use words that show Pattinson is obviously from a previous generation and not quite down with the lingo of today (or even the 1975 lingo when this was written) but this style does add something unique and enjoyable to his novels. Other good Pattinson novels worth checking out are Blind Date, Homecoming, The Silent Voyage, Skeleton Island, The Time of Your Life, Away With Murder, The Murmansk Assignment, Obituary for Howard Grey, Crane, The Animal Gang, Spoilers, The Golden Reef, A Car for Mr Bradley, Bavarian Sunset, The Sinister Stars, Fat Man from Colombia and Life Preserver.