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Never Put Off Till Tomorrow What You Can Kill Today
Never Put Off Till Tomorrow What You Can Kill Today Author:John Godey Never Put Off Till Tomorrow What You Can Kill Today is a wickedly funny thriller starring Jack Albany, a young bit player who is, by his own admission, one of the world's greatest if least-sung actors. — On a rainy Manhattan evening, an ill wind blows him through the stage door of the theatrical bomb he is gracing with his presence at Foster the ... more »Family Chauffeur (three lines of dialogue) and straight into a starring rold in a lethal right-wing conspiracy plotting the violent takeover of a giant Americal communications institution. The fantastic but intricately planned and convincing caper (echoing a news headline of the recent past) all but succeeds, and the novel races to a wild, explosive and hilarious climax played to an audience of twenty million.
These are the bare bones of a story that contrives to maintain suspense and comedy in neat equilibrium. The featured cast of Never Put Off Till Tomorrow What You Can Kill Today includes:
General Thomas "Bloody Guts" Braggo, a savage, half-mad warrior whose life style is guided by the motto, "One American is worth five hundred Gooks."
Baker T. Jason, two billion dollars' worth of dedicated subversive lunacy, who defected from the John Birch Society because of its blatant communistic tendencies; official mastermind of the great takeover plot.
Helga, a gorgeous giantess with a Late Show Prussian accent, who plays a strenuously sexy Brunhilda to Jack Albany's Siegfried.
Oscar, a mastodon with bleak eyes, a voice like a meat grinder working on bones, and a dead-set hatred for Jack Albany.
Brute Marlboro, the nonpareil he-man hero of the screen, quick-draw expert and all-time box office favorite; playing a lead role in the grand climax of the takeover plan.
Bobby Luce, a child actor, who, with a perceptiveness far beyond his tender years, places Jack Albany as Number One in his pantheon of great actors; in the ultimate crunch, Bobby lowers the boom.
Mort Barrymore, a wicked stage manager.
Captain Melvin, a jet pilot who doubles in the composition of a politically-oriented graffiti for the walls of a subway station latrines.