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The book takes readers back to the days of the British Empire and introduces us to one of the great literary villains of fiction in the form of Dr. Fu Manchu, an agent of sabotage and assassination working toward the overthrow of the European powers and the assertion of the empire of the Orient. Arrayed against him is Nayland Smith, a keen and tenacious servant of the crown, but by his own admission no match for Fu Manchu, a master of both the Eastern and Western sciences.

The tale as chronicles by his faithful assistant, Dr. Petrie, is episodic, with himself and Smith investigating one lead and then another, foiling an assassination attempt through deadly poison, or the theft of valuable military secrets. The novel captures the feel of the Great Game, with a number of small skirmishes on multiple fronts, with a shadow of worldwide conflict looming over all. Meanwhile, a secret war rages in England.

An interesting twist: the most compelling and central character is the antagonist, the Devil Doctor himself. Cunning, ingenious, inventive and courageous. What setbacks Smith deals him is due to the covert aid of Fu Manchu’s slave girl and reluctant femme fatale, Karamaneh.

She is by far the best character in my opinion, and I wonder what the story would like if told from her perspective as she manipulates the heroes to help free her from her cruel master. Perhaps that story will one day be held without ruining the theme.


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The Insidious Dr FuManchu Being a Somewhat Detailed Account of the Amazing Adventures of Nayland Smith in His Trailing of the Sinister Chinaman New Millennium Library Sax Rohmer 9781583483275 Books Reviews

Another great tale by a master story teller. Not quite as thrilling or suspenseful as some of the others in this series, however, it remains a great read.
This book introduces the characters and begins the course of events that sustain the first three novels of the series. Nayland Smith, Special Commisioner, having detected signs of organized insurgency in the Far East, surprises his good friend Dr. Petrie one quiet evening in London. He astounds the good doctor with tales of Eastern terrors and intrigue revolving around the figure of a mysterious Chinese doctor named Fu-Manchu, the evil genius at the center of a plot to subjugate the white races to oriental domination. As the plot unfolds, we, along with these two stout-hearted Englishmen, encounter many of Dr. Fu-Manchu's terrifying agents, including numerous representatives of mysterious Asiatic strangler cults, and frequent evidence of the Doctor's evil genius in the shape of the deadly drugs he has produced and the lethal bugs, apes and fungi he has bred. We also move in and out of opium dens, subterranean passageways, and loathsome dungeons in the very heart of the modern metropolis and in the peaceful bosom of the English countryside. The irresitibly seductive Egyptian slave girl Karamaneh, Fu-Manchu's most dangerous creature, completes the cast of characters. To reveal more, at this point, would be to spoil the pleasure and the surprise of the reader's first encounter with the thrilling and enchanting world of Dr. Fu-Manchu.
Return to a world of wonder, a time of Empire and circles of intrigue with a villain at the center who has become a legend. Or so it seems to me. It is a period piece with all that that implies and the dialogue and outlandish moral dilemmas make this world seem simpler than our present day. Dr. Fu-Manchu cast a shadow over the world then and for years after. A fun read.
_The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu_, republished by Dover Publications, is an American edition of the first book of Sax Rohmer (a pseudonym for the author Arthur Sarsfield Ward (1883-1959)), published in America as _The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu_ (1913) and in England as _The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu_. Sax Rohmer (a pseudonym meaning "blade roamer") published these stories of a Chinese criminal mastermind in magazines in America and England before cobbling them together into book form as they appear here. These stories detail the exploits of the devil doctor, Dr. Fu-Manchu, a criminal mastermind of Chinese extraction, and part of the Young China movement, seeking to destroy the white race. Fu-Manchu is described as "Imagine a person, tall, lean, and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat-green. Invest him with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race, accumulated in one giant intellect. . . . Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man." In the book, Fu-Manchu heads a Chinese criminal organization and operates behind the front of opium dens and uses dacoits as henchmen. The story is based upon many of the stereotypes about the Chinese people popular at the time, regarding them as cunning and nefarious, and the imminent threat of the "Yellow Peril" against the white race and is certainly unlikely to please the politically correct. Fu-Manchu makes use of many secret means to attack his foes, including the Zayat kiss, the call of Siva, and deadly elixirs which enable him to control life and death, as well as fungal extractions which allow for him to cause madness. Fu-Manchu also makes use of a beautiful Arabian (Oriental) slave girl, Karamaneh, who serves him so as to prevent him from harming her helpless brother Aziz. The heroes of the story include the narrator Dr. Petrie and Nayland Smith, recently returned from Burma and an active servant of king and country. The story mostly takes place in and around London and the Thames river, while the heroes try to capture the mad doctor and prevent him from doing further harm. However, the doctor always escapes their grasp. Dr. Petrie ends up falling under the spell of the beautiful Karamaneh and will attempt to aid her so she can finally free herself and her brother from the devil doctor. As the heroes track the doctor as he murders and causes mayhem, they must fear for their lives as he follows them closely with his evil dacoit henchmen. This story is a fairly interesting one which shows us a picture of the Orientals as seen by an Englishman of the late Nineteenth Century. The character of Dr. Fu-Manchu and the mystery surrounding him will appear again and again in all the writings of Sax Rohmer. He remains a classic villain and his exploits provide an entertaining yarn for those who read of them.
The book takes readers back to the days of the British Empire and introduces us to one of the great literary villains of fiction in the form of Dr. Fu Manchu, an agent of sabotage and assassination working toward the overthrow of the European powers and the assertion of the empire of the Orient. Arrayed against him is Nayland Smith, a keen and tenacious servant of the crown, but by his own admission no match for Fu Manchu, a master of both the Eastern and Western sciences.

The tale as chronicles by his faithful assistant, Dr. Petrie, is episodic, with himself and Smith investigating one lead and then another, foiling an assassination attempt through deadly poison, or the theft of valuable military secrets. The novel captures the feel of the Great Game, with a number of small skirmishes on multiple fronts, with a shadow of worldwide conflict looming over all. Meanwhile, a secret war rages in England.

An interesting twist the most compelling and central character is the antagonist, the Devil Doctor himself. Cunning, ingenious, inventive and courageous. What setbacks Smith deals him is due to the covert aid of Fu Manchu’s slave girl and reluctant femme fatale, Karamaneh.

She is by far the best character in my opinion, and I wonder what the story would like if told from her perspective as she manipulates the heroes to help free her from her cruel master. Perhaps that story will one day be held without ruining the theme.