Isabel Ostrander

“ Those are just a few of the questions you will ask yourself, as you rush through this baffling tale of mystery piled upon mystery. It's a breathless book—a story in which action never ceases for a moment, and whose outcome you never suspect until the last big moment of struggle when mystery ceases to be mystery, and you breathe the contented sigh that comes at the end of a good story well told—and thoroughly enjoyed. ”

“ The first of the Fu-Manchu series, introducing the most famous criminal of modern fiction, the yellow doctor. Imagine a man more daring than Raffles, more adroit than Arsene Lupin, more powerful than any other criminal of history or romance—and you do not fully picture the diabolical genius of Fu-Manchu. ”

“ Adams has taken this phrase as a title for the series of swift, vivid impressions which compose his book; his chapters, with their glimpses of scenes in billets, in the trenches, of snipers, working parties and patrols, bring the reader more clearly in touch with the reality of warfare than do many more spectacular books. ”