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."
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."
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