Monsieur Zenith the Albino

[Whiskers]

Foreward by Michael Moorcock.

Michael has cited this character as an inspiration for Elric.

http://www.abel.net.uk/~savoy/HTML/zenith.html

"Monsieur Zenith is an albino. Craving excitement because it brings forgetfulness; thrust into crime by his abnormality, by his illimitable egotism, by the caprice of his recalcitrant nature, he finds himself involved in the quest for a mysterious something on the finding of which life—and more than life—depends.

Indifferent to gratitude or reward, asserting—and, perhaps, believing—that he seeks only the final diversion of the damned, to dice with death; threatened on the one hand by the police, and, on the other, by political chicanery, this strange creature crashes through.

Monsieur Zenith is the strangest, most bizarre, character ever devised in thriller fiction."

[Yisselda]

What id like to know is would it be worth my while buying the book/s they sound interesting. Who wrote them/it? :twisted:

[Jules]

If you like hard-boiled detective fiction like Hammett then definitely yes - it's a wierd mix of detective fiction (car chases, etc) with the exotic villainry of an earlier age.

[M-A_19]

monsieur Zenith

Zenith is less than a shade on this plane!

Or this airship even ;) Zenith definitely appears in the "Steel Tzar" (Nomad of the time streams) as a chrononaut.

There's characters called Zenith in other MM books too, though that's the only one I can think of at the moment.

[Krimson]

Monsieur Zenith appeared in Fabulous Harbours and the War Amongst the Angels as another incarnation of von Bek. He is the nemesis of Sexton Begg. He also appears in the tie in to the above trilogy (which also begins with the book Blood) the Multiverse of Michael Moorcock, which is a trade paperback (graphic novel) published by DC's Vertigo Imprint.