Although Martin Caidin's Indy books are not my favourites I have nothing but respect for the late author.
Okay, I know that these novels were not the greatest Indy adventures ever written, but saying this, there was something about those books I liked.
They had some great scenes and although they were not your traditional pulp novels or like McCoy's or McGreggor's novels they were still fun to read.
I particularly liked the romantic scenes between Indy and Gail Parker and I quote from a recent article that I wrote, Indy's Relationships With Women Part 3-
"It is now 1930 and Indy meets a lady called Gail Parker and they immediately bond. I feel that their relationship is a very interesting one as these two are very alike and admire and respect each other equally. Gail becomes a good friend of the archaeologist, and during their two adventures, The Sky Pirates and The White Witch they become closer. For anyone who has read these two books by the late Martin Caidin you will notice that the relationship between these two characters change. For instance, there is a part where Gail asks herself the question: Is she falling for Indy? Later on, Indy asks her to dinner on a date and she is momentarily confused by his offer. Some time later as Gail is swept up in wild abandon, she kisses Indy full on the lips which confuses him, and then near the end of the particular adventure she tells him: ??I love you.? During the second adventure, as Gail is tending to Indy?s injuries, she tells herself not to appear too affectionate towards Indy. Obviously, she likes Indy a great deal, but at the same time, it seems to me as if she is holding back. It would have been very interesting to look into their relationship further, but unfortunately, only two books were written featuring these two characters together."
I also liked the fact that when Caidin wrote about Indy, he wrote about him as the respected archaeology professor and I thought that was great because it felt to me that people in the adventures were giving Indy the respect that he deserved.
Just my thoughts.