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Right You Are, Mr. Moto (The Mr. Moto Novels) Kindle Edition

by John P. Marquand (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Book 6 of 6: The Mr. Moto Novels

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In the final installment of John P. Marquand’s classic espionage series, Mr. Moto returns—15 years after his previous adventure

After serving his country as a paratrooper in World War II, Jack Rhyce takes on an even more dangerous mission when he becomes a secret agent in the early years of the Cold War. Now he and fellow spy Ruth Bogart have been dispatched to Tokyo to foil an assassination attempt on a leading liberal politician. Murder is only the first part of this nefarious Communist plot; the ultimate objective is to stir up anti-American sentiment in a country that has formed close bonds with its former adversary in the West.

Undercover as do-gooders employed by the Asia Friendship League, Jack and Ruth are met at the airport by Mr. Moto, a would-be tour guide who offers to make their stay more hospitable. The American spies immediately suspect that there is more to Mr. Moto than meets the eye. But whose side is he on? To stop the cunning mastermind behind the sinister scheme, Jack and Ruth will have to learn the secrets of post-war Japan as quickly as possible. The mysterious Mr. Moto might just be their greatest ally, or their worst enemy.

First serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, John P. Marquand’s popular and acclaimed Mr. Moto Novels were the inspiration for 8 films starring Peter Lorre.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B010N004AC
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller (August 18, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 18, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3400 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 297 pages

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Febesmom

Period piece of fun

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2020

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Fun story. Definitely a period piece.

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H. Keller

Mr. Moto's Last Bow

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2016

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If you are reading this, you probably got here via the Mr. Moto movies of Peter Lorre. Same here.

I read the novels when they were released in paperback back in the 80s and my observation at the time was that I liked them, but they were totally unlike anything in the movies. Fast forward 30 years and I still love the Peter Lorre version, but when I saw the novels were on audiobook, I bought them all, two at a time.

The audiobook version made the book really "pop," and the narrator, Paul Christy, has an amazingly good range for representing different characters.

This book was the last in the series and it was set in postwar Japan. The two lead characters are American agents tracking down red agitators in Japan. Unlike the similar pairs in previous Moto books, they aren't thrown together by circumstance, but a mission. You don't know exactly where Mr. Moto stands, but once things become clear, he and the Americans work together to stop an assassination attempt.

I think I enjoyed the prewar books much more because reality (the Cold War) is in place and obviously Mr. Moto failed to stop the war party in 1930s Japan. This book also has a jarring ending unlike the previous books. When I finished I just sat there thinking "Wow." And I had read the book years ago – but not in rapid succession with all the others. I think this created more context for the novels.

I am, however, convinced by the ending that John Marquand intended to continue the Mr. Moto series and for whatever reason (Like the Bataan Death March) popularity for the character ever came back. I am sorry about that.

I enjoyed this book, but I suggest you read it last.

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Israel Drazin

Somewhat verbose, but very interesting and enjoyable

Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2017

This is the second Mr. Moto spy novel by John P. Marquand that I read. I read Marquand’s first Moto tale that was published in 1935, prior to World War II, and which anticipated the future war between Japan and the US. This is Marquand’s sixth and last Moto thriller. It is markedly different than the prior five which were published just before and during World War II, between 1935 and 1942 and which reflect the problems of the time. This one, published in 1957, tells about Tokyo rebuilt after the war, Cold War problems between the US and Russia and the involvement of Japan in these problems. The US is concerned that Russia seems to be getting Japan on their side against the US, and Russia has at least one spy working in Japan.
As in the first book, the principle character in the tale is an American, not Mr. Moto. Mr. Moto’s position, good or bad and for whom he is working is not revealed until near the close of the novel. As in the first novel, the American meets a beautiful woman and slowly falls in love with her. The male American has been a spy for some ten years and the female spy has been employed by the agency for less time. He makes mistakes from time to time, saying what he should not say, but she does not. They have been sent by their agency to discover who is the Russian spy called Big Ben and the man who controls him. As in the first book, Marquand reveals facts slowly, such as who is Mr. Moto and what is his goal, and this adds to the suspense in the tale.
Unlike the first Moto novel that I read, I found this one to be overly verbose, lots of descriptions of the fears of the two American agents and lots of descriptions of Japan. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the tale.

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Stuart W. Mirsky

A Serious Let Down

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2006

I picked this one up in a second hand shop and jumped at it because I recall liking the Mr. Moto movies with Peter Lorre playing the smooth, diminutive Japanese detective when I was a kid. I wanted to see what the books, on which the films were based, might have been like. Apparently this is a later entry in the Moto series, taking place in the mid fifties, at least a decade after World War II and the occupation of Japan by the American forces. Mr. Moto is apparently older now and affiliated with the now much reduced Japanese intelligence services though he appears to remain highly efficient and effective in his capacity as secret agent. The story revolves around two American spies, Jack Rhyce and Ruth Bogart, sent by the "Chief" to Tokyo to uncover a communist plot intended to create an international anti-American incident by assassination of a leading Japanese liberal political figure.

The male and female American agents adopt the cover of American do-gooders working for the Asian American Friendship League (or Society or some such) as they go about their job of trying to uncover the plotters. But the story is very slow moving for the first two thirds and is rather tiresome as the two affect a grating naivete and try to appear to fall in love and, of course, do fall in love, quite unprofessionally as it happens. Mr. Moto lurks in the background and really adds little to the game until they finally stumble onto something and then he barges in, initially blundering, only to be set right by the male American agent.

The thing I found intriguing about the book was how well it captured the 1950s post-War ethos, now so dated and lost to us. The dialogue often sounds stilted and forced but it does have the ring of those old forties movies when people seemed to engage in snappy, albeit tiresomely hackneyed, retorts. The other interesting thing was how much Soviet activities, involved in stirring up communist sympathy and worker unrest, were seen to be equivalent to Nazi espionage efforts (as they may have been when you really think about it).

And yet so much of the tale happens in the background, there is so little evidence of Soviet perfidy (until the final third of the book) that one is moved to wonder whether the two lead characters are imagining it all. Of course they are not but a more self-conscious, more critical author might have explored this aspect a bit. Certainly, in retrospect (post-Cold War), the whole world view on evidence in the book seems incredibly dated. The extensive use of quite difficult to grant coincidences also detracts from the credibility of the book. What a lucky break to find the mysterious "Big Ben" as they do, even before hitting the Ginza!

On balance I was greatly disappointed in the book. But then, on reflection, the movies, while fun, were no great shakes, either. Spy fiction and world views have come a long way since the fifties and the early Cold War. And Mr. Moto, as a Japanese stereotype, has long since been superceded by far more sophisticated models. I'd actually like to see a remake of one of the Mr. Moto films with a more modern and realistic sensibility built in. But in the mean time, Marquand's narrative viewpoint, at least as seen in this book, seems woefully dated.

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