The Avenger. E-book. Formato EPUB - 9782383832768

The Avenger. E-book. Formato EPUB. Captain Mike Brixan had certain mild and innocent superstitions. He believed, for example, that if he saw a green crow in a field he would certainly see another green crow before the day was out. And when, at the bookstand on Aix la Chapelle station, he saw and purchased a dime novel that was comprehensively intituled &ldquo;Only an Extra, or the Pride of Hollywood,&rdquo; he was less concerned as to how this thrilling and dog-eared romance came to be on offer at half a million marks (this was in the days when marks were worth money) than as to the circumstances in which he would again hear or read the word &ldquo;extras&rdquo; in the sense of a supernumerary and unimportant screen actress.<br />The novel did not interest him at all. He read one page of superlatives and turned for relief to the study of a Belgian time-table. He was bored, but not so bored that he could interest himself in the sensational rise of the fictitious Rosa Love from modest obscurity to a press agent and wealth.<br />But &ldquo;extra&rdquo; was a new one on Michael, and he waited for the day to bring its inevitable companion.