"Yellow peril"

A occult thriller -- homage to the great pulp adventure novels on the 1920s-30s. The Wikipedia entry for "Yellow Peril" says it well: ..."Yellow Peril": The Adventures of Sir John Weymouth-Smythe, by Richard Jaccoma (1978) is both a pastiche and a benign parody of the Sax Rohmer novels. As the title suggests, it's a distillation of the trope, focusing on the psychosexual stereotype of the seductive Asian woman as well that of the ruthless Mongol conqueror that underlies much of supposed threat to Western civilization. Written for a sophisticated modern audience, it uses the traditional use of…