Much as I loved Edson as a young fellow I feel he should not have followed this path. He seems far more comfortable with the West. Typical Edson elements - cat-fights, detailed obsessive descriptions of weaponry. At times he fixes on a particular weapon and seem unable to drop it. I thought I'd never get away from how a bow works. The pulp elements of his writing are strong, repetition, description, which I don't mind but the real failing is a certain imbalance in suspension of belief. On the one hand characters appear to be under threat of death, on the other hand you don't think for a second they will die.Bunduki has been elected warden of a game reserve with people added in as an extra animal. The fact some are being brutally sacrificed seems passe to Edson and indeed to Bunduki who lacks the moral drive of Tarzan. Essentially, it becomes uninteresting to the reader. The enigmatic 'suppliers' seem to be caricatures of Jose Farmers pals in Riverworld.It's all basically Tarzan without Burrough's magical gift of storytelling
