The Killer Touch

Cast of Characters

TRACY DUNN — A frail ethereal beauty who was needled by her husband to an addict’s fate; she had been on H so long she didn’t know there was any other letter in the alphabet

ROLF DUNN — A swaggering soldier of fortune — usually someone else’s. This international mastermind couldn’t kick the habit of killing after the war

BURTON MARCH — His idyllic vacation on a lonely island was thronged with daydreams and nightmares

CAPTAIN O’RTAN — An island-hopping mariner who is always on deck for a sexboat. His prepossessing build was a caution to men and a challenge to women

COCO — This islander’s disposition was indicated by the color of his hats: white — glad; red — angry. He was wearing a blue — sad: no-guest, no-fish, no-tip chapeau

JOSS LEEDS — The tippling landlady of an island purgatory who disappears into her bottle as magically as a genie

GODFREY — Dishwasher, beachboy and bellhop, he is so rickety that his legs look like parenthesis..

JATA — The tall thin blue-black woman from Petit Martinique who exists in a world of death, blood, and black magic

MAUDIE — She stuck as close and as tenaciously to Burt as a plastic adhesive

BUNNY DEVORE — The only thing soft about this sadistic stripper was her brain; her specialty dance demonstrated the symbolism of the gun

ACE SMITH — A hardened gunman whose modern weapons were ineffectual against primitive rage and vengeance

HOKE FARNUM — His emotionless face had the color and texture of pie dough with the features pressed in — but he was half-baked