What do a coral reef, a purse, a fat man, and two captivating women have in common? As Doc Savage soon discovers, the perilous answer lies at a Bahamas fortress -- in the hands of the most vicious cut-throats in captivity.
King Joe Cay reads like a Travis McGee novel by John D. MacDonald (who would soon be publishing his first short stories in Doc Savage Magazine in 1947). Doc is nothing more than a private detective sent on a case of following a woman to an island called King Joe Cay and a bunch of modern-day pirates. It's a fairly creepy and unpleasant story and doesn't seem at all like Doc Savage. In fact, this story seems like a rather ordinary adventure story Dent may have written outside of the Doc Savage books and he may have just changed a few elements in the story manuscript to apply to Doc. Not Dent at his best, or Doc either, for that matter.
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