From the hints dropped in the novel, Richard must be Richard Joseph Camellion, the Death Merchant. William’s grandfather, Thomas Lynch, is the protagonist of the World War II-set series Commando (Operation Arrowhead, Operation Bedlam, Operation Cannibal, and Operation Dervish) and the side series Commando Resistance (The Train to Calais.)
I really enjoyed this book. This is probably the only Men's Adventure Novel that I know of where the protagonist has an actual character arc. It even made the Death Merchant interesting. (Of the two Death Merchant novels, I've read one was So-Bad-It's-Good and the other was just plain bad.)
ReplyDeleteWilliam's uncle from that book has his own book Hangman: San Francisco Slaughter where Richard appears again.