The Professionals #5: Blind Run by Ken Blake (Sphere, 1979) Although not one of the best Professionals novelisations — a verdict that rests as much on the quality of the three episodes depicted as upon the writing — Blind Run nevertheless captures much of the on-screen action and the charisma of its three leads.
Tag: tie-in novel
42 Word Retrospective: Star Wars – Splinter of the Mind’s Eye by Alan Dean Foster
Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind’s Eye by Alan Dean Foster (Del Rey, 1978) Set and first published between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, Foster’s hurriedly written, workmanlike tie-in novel sends Luke and Leia on a meandering, curiously pointless quest, before pitting them (belatedly) against an ineffectual and always-likely-to-be canonically suspect Darth Vader.