Author: Desmond Bagley Publisher: William Collins & Sons Published: 1973 Pictured: Fontana Paperback edition 1981 I have come to Desmond Bagley late in life. But I am trying to make up for it. I read High Citadel a few years ago, and truly enjoyed it. Since then, whenever I have seen a Bagley book in [...]
19Aug11
The Tightrope Men
4Aug11
Role of Honour
Author: John Gardner Publisher: Jonathan Cape Published: 1984 Recently I have been re-reading some of John Gardner’s James Bond novels, and although they have been rather flawed, I have still enjoyed them. That is till now. As a teenager, I remember enjoying Role of Honour, but upon this reading I found it to be extremely [...]
12Jul11
Nick Carter: The Algarve Affair
This particular entry in the Killmaster series has Nick Carter, Agent N3 for AXE investigating a heroin distribution network in Portugal. This heroin has ended up being distributed at a European NATO Base, where increasing number of staff have been developing habits.
1Jun11
Mack Bolan: Dead Man Running
Author: Stephen Mertz Publisher: Worldwide: Gold Eagle Based on characters created by Don Pendleton Published: April 1984 Book No: 64 One of the things that separates the Mack Bolan – Executioner series from the Nick Carter series is the back story running through the novels. Nick Carter’s adventures are nearly exclusively self-contained, and while the [...]
20May11
Mack Bolan: Paramilitary Plot
Author: Mike Newton Based on characters created by Don Pendleton Publisher: Worldwide: Gold Eagle Published: 1982 Book Number: 45 Pictured: Australian paperback edition 1984 Paramilitary Plot marks the first occasion that legendary pulp fiction character, Mack Bolan – The Executioner, has graced the pages of Permission to Kill. Needless to say it wont be his [...]
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Tagged Book Review, Don Pendleton, Mack Bolan, Spy Fiction, The Executioner
Tagged Book Review, Don Pendleton, Mack Bolan, Spy Fiction, The Executioner
Author: Jack Canon Publisher: Charter Books Published: 1984 Book No: 189 Once again we join Nick Carter, Agent N3 – Killmaster for AXE on another mission to save the world from certain disaster. This time he takes on the Basque terrorist organisation ETA (Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna), who have got their hands on eight nuclear missiles. [...]
30Apr11
Icebreaker
Author: John Gardner Publisher: Jonathan Cape Published: 1983 In my review of For Special Services, I detailed how it and John Gardner’s third continuation novel, Icebreaker, came into my life, so I won’t rehash that, but if you’ll forgive the self indulgence, I’ll relate another Bondian tale from that very same trip through Asia. Like [...]
28Apr11
In the Halls of Evil
Author: T.A. Waters Publisher: Lancer Books Published: 1967 AKA: The Shewsbury Horror Cover Illustration: Charles Moll Since reading Love That Spy, I have been trying to solve the riddle of ‘who’ T.A. Walters is/was. Instead I have stumbled on to a pimple jutting out from the side of the Bond universe. The book in question is called In [...]
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Tagged Book Review, James Bond, Lancer, Sir Miles Messervy, Spy Fiction, T.A. Waters
Tagged Book Review, James Bond, Lancer, Sir Miles Messervy, Spy Fiction, T.A. Waters
15Apr11
For Special Services
Author: John Gardner Publisher: Jonathan Cape Published: 1982 As a teenager, in 1983, I traveled through Asia – with my family of course – and in Taiwan, at the Imperial Book, Sound and Gift Store in Taipei I found the next two books in John Gardner’s series of James Bond continuation novels. Those being For [...]
26Mar11
Licence Renewed
Author: John Gardner Publisher: Jonathan Cape Published: 1981 As a kid I was always pretty lucky tracking down books. My aunt ran a second hand book shop and whenever I got hooked on a series, she’d help to find the books I was after. When I was really young, it was the Charlie Brown comic [...]
