Richard Haliburton was a true adventurer. I have a moth eaten, dog eared copy of a
book from the 1940’s chronicling his adventures. Drake turned him into a fictional character
for this book. He included Dr. Howard
Carter another real person who really discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun. This is a fictionalized account of Haliburton,
as an American agent, assisting Carter
in finding the tomb while preventing Germans from seizing the treasure found
within.
Haliburton was portrayed as having little common sense and
open for every experience. Oddly enough
that is no too far from the real Haliburton.
Haliburton did swim in the Taj Mahal reflection pool and he even swam
the Panama Canal. The story had plenty
of action but I was not enthralled with the presentation. The book felt more like one of the serialized
thrillers on the radio in the early fifties.
This book may have been received free of charge from a publisher or a publicist. That will NEVER have a bearing on my recommendations.
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