Pulp International - Vintage cover for Twist of the Knife painted by Charles Copeland

Aug 13 2015

Climb up just a bit higher. The part of you I’m planning to shoot isn’t out of the water yet.

Interesting Charles Copeland cover art for Victor Canning’s 1955 adventure thriller Twist of the Knife, published outside the U.S. as His Bones Are Coral. It’s the story of a drug smuggler flying contraband from Sudan to Egypt who crash lands near the town of Suabar, gets involved in a caper to raise gold from the waters of the Red Sea, and of course beds the only white girl within sight. This was actually made into a really bad Burt Reynolds movie called Shark! in 1970.

Egypt Sudan Berkley Books Twist of the Knife His Bones Are Coral Shark!Victor Canning Charles Copeland Burt Reynolds cover art literature

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