by Con Sellers
Novel Books, 1961
"He ripped out the guts of an entire city to find the one hell-hole wehre his lover was being violated!"
Brad Saxon is an ex-football player Korean War vet who returns to Japan to find his one true love, a prostitute he abandoned. He gets mixed up with crooked military, Japanese secret police, blackmailed Army wives, communist plots, and organized crime.
But mostly he smashed through walls like a bull in a china shop, smacking the crap out of everyone, and sleeping with every woman he can find. Brute is a rare book from the paperback original era in that it fulfills the promise that the cover evokes. The story is not far off from what the art suggests. The sex is plentiful, though shrouded in purple prose, and the violence gets surprisingly brutal towards the end.
This is a good example of tough guy inflation. Saxon was a tackle and used his experience to bulldoze through thugs, tossing them like rag dolls. Much is made of his massive 230 pounds - the average tackle today is over 300.
This is my first Con Sellers book, but not my last. The prose was more literary than it had reason to be while staying pure exploitation. Now Wildside just needs to release Red Rape - hell, do a whole megapack!
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