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The third Queen and Country novel has Tara Chace, a Minder One with a five year old daughter that thinks she has just about had enough of the whole in the field super agent thing. Her boss is also running out of friends in the political sense as he tries to do the best for [...]
Or, saving the world (and your panties) from an explosive supervillain gambling resort. All while suspended. 4.5 out of 5 http://www.actionagecomics.com/comics/WOA01/pages/WOA0101.htm
Or, 007! 5 out of 5
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As long as Modesty is on our side Good will surely prevail 4 out of 5
“After a second’s consideration, Chastity headed across the square toward the stairwell that led into the Tube station and the subway across to the rail station. Pushing past a knot of exiting tourists, she hesitated at the bottom of the step, then turned toward the passage leading to the railway. For a moment, she was [...]
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Just a revolutionary superspy minus one agent. http://www.comicspace.com/the_black_coat/uploaded/960/1173835359_aBFC3dUTzc.jpg?1185087736 4.5 out of 5 http://www.comicspace.com/the_black_coat/comics.php?action=read&file_id=52295
A series of comic strips – in Spanish! The first of which has Modesty and Willie dressed as Vikings. http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=43b8f3a65e52c9d967a28d3b1ed1b619 4.5 out of 5 http://www.gocomics.com/espanol/modestyblaise/2004/03/01/
A first person Scottish castle rescue for Willie Garvin. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.modestyblaisebooks.com/media_radio.html
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Bond gear. 3 out of 5 http://www.jakonrath.com/Stories.pdf
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The final book in the Modesty Blaise series is a collection of tales of mostly similar length, quite similar to Pieces Of Modesty. A little less action packed perhaps, as the pair and their friends have aged. A great end for a great pair. Cobra Trap : 1 Bellman – Peter O’DonnellCobra Trap : 2 [...]
Many years later, the Colliers are working in a Central American Republic, when a revolution gets out on away. Attempting to get out by train, Willie Garvin with them – an attack forces Modesty Blaise to come to their aid. 3.5 out of 5
An opportune rescue by an old Frenchman with a startling past leaves Modesty and Willie involved again with doing something about Salamander Four. 4 out of 5
A Jumpin’ Jehosophat deception as Tarrant needs some assassins out to kill foreign captains of industry taken care with Modesty and Willie’s help. 4 out of 5
A Queen and Country novel. An Islamic terrorist attack kills several hundred people on London’s Underground, so, of course, the government wants payback. Their target is the religious inspirational head of the particular group responsible. Special Operations is tasked to put together a plan to assassinate him, and Minder One, Tara Chace, wants the job. [...]
Cello chick too cute to shoot. 4 out of 5
A day at the races and a couple of Mickey Finns leave Willie and Modesty in a hunt, with them as the prey, as an old enemy has a score to settle. 4 out of 5
I’d give this one a 3.75. A reunion with bumblingly successful doctor Giles Pennyfeather leads Modesty and Willie to many locations and a final showdown with a panther, an evil nanny and her two imprinted young charges, and a short killer that they had tangled with before. They get into the panther situation when trying [...]
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Secutor vs Retiarius. Ordinary decent criminals it seems are smart enough to leave Garvin and Blaise alone, by this time. It takes your group of crazed supervillain types to want to include them in their schemes – especially those that fancy themselves warriors and want to test themselves, as does the twisted male-female pair in [...]
Probably the weakest of the Modesty Blaise books, it begins with a flashback to the time of The Network. Willie has just finished testing a possible new recruit with physical skills approaching his own. However, his state of mind is not up to the job – too arrogant, etc., according to the leadership group, so [...]
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Modesty has taken a holiday with John Dall and an old guide friend when they are ambushed. They discover the hint of an organised South American kidnapping ring, snatching the wealthy to use as slaves. Dall and Blaise are not slow on the uptake, so when she and Willie take a look, they find out [...]
Modesty rescues a broken down pilot who has hit his head, and shortly realises some bad guys are coming after him. They aren’t ready for her, though. After this, a sophisticated but twisted gang of blackmailers come to the attention of Modesty and Willie in two ways. Their first inkling is when Lady Janet’s sister [...]
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http://www.chrisroberson.net/2009/02/free-fiction-funeral-affair.html Super spy service. 4 out of 5
Indian style. Nick Carter is involved in this instance with a voluptuous thief, and a religious conflict. There are of course some of those good old Thug cult stranglers running around. When a weird Sikh faction and those manipulating it get violent, The Killmaster is more than happy to help the authorities return the favour [...]
We get some higher level military philosophising here, old style. A scientist has invented a radioactive ‘electron cloud’ weapon that can do some serious damage. This is of course a book that was written in the nineteen twenties before any atomic bombs were thrown around, so the threat level of this weapon is more impressive [...]
We get some higher level military philosophising here, old style. A scientist has invented a radioactive ‘electron cloud’ weapon that can do some serious damage. This is of course a book that was written in the nineteen twenties before any atomic bombs were thrown around, so the threat level of this weapon is more impressive [...]
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The Saint does a sport of fireman work in this book as a leadup, and the novel is also known as The Saint Plays With Fire.‘”Oh,” she said. “How silly of me! Of course I remember you now. You’re the hero, aren’t you?”“Am I?”She frowned a little.“Not that I really hoot a lot about this [...]
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Insouciant adventurer seeks new pleasant accomodation, fortifications a plus. Must have exciting local diversions, such as hunting genius assassins, readily available. All real estate with personable young women as neighbours, along with esteemed after dinner drinks companions will be viewed highly favorable. Seaside air an added bonus. 3.5 out of 5
The Man With the Golden Gun 1 Can I Help You? – Ian Fleminghttp://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780142003282,00.html?sym=EXC “So now James Bond paused before he replied to Major Townsend’s question about how he could be of help. He looked at the Soft Man and then into the fire. He added up the accuracy of the description he had been [...]
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From Russia With Love 1 Roseland – Ian Fleminghttp://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780142002070,00.html?sym=EXC “The masseuse worked up the arm to the huge biceps. Where had the man got these fantastic muscles from? Was he a boxer? What did he do with his formidable body? Rumour said this was a police villa. The two menservants were obviously guards of some [...]
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Moonraker 1 Secret Paperwork – Ian Fleminghttp://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780142002063,00.html?sym=EXC “The two thirty-eights roared simultaneously. The walls of the underground room took the crash of sound and batted it to and fro between them until there was silence. James Bond watched the smoke being sucked from each end of the room towards the central Ventaxia fan. The memory [...]
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Live and Let Die 1 The Red Carpet – Ian Fleminghttp://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780142003237,00.html?sym=EXC “‘Arranging the flowers by your bed. Part of the famous CIA “Service With a Smile”.’ The tall thin young man came forward with a wide grin, his hand outstretched, to where Bond stood rooted with astonishment. ‘Felix Leiter! What the hell are you doing [...]
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Casino Royale 1 The Secret Agent – Ian Fleminghttp://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780142002025,00.html?sym=EXC “Some of this background to his cable passed through Bond’s mind. He was used to oblique control and rather liked it. He felt it feather-bedded him a little, allowed him to give or take an hour or two in his communications with M. He knew that [...]
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Diamonds Are Forever – Ian Fleminghttp://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780142002056,00.html?sym=EXC “The man on the ground watched it go, and with it the £100,000 worth of diamonds his men had filched from the diggings during the past month and had casually held out on their pink tongues as he stood beside the dentist’s chair and brusquely inquired where it hurt. [...]
Doctor No 1 Hear You Loud and Clear – Ian Fleminghttp://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780142002032,00.html?sym=EXC “Automatically, another part of Strangways’s mind took in the three blind men. They were tapping slowly towards him down the sidewalk. They were about twenty yards away. He calculated that they would pass him a second or two before he reached his car. Out [...]
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The Spy Who Loved Me 1 Scaredy Cat – Ian Fleminghttp://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780142003268,00.html?sym=EXC “My legs felt weak and I faltered to the nearest chair and sat down, my head in my hands. How could I have been so foolish, so, so impudent? If only someone would come, someone to stay with me, someone to tell me that [...]
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You Only Live Twice 1 Scissors Cut Paper – Ian Fleminghttp://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780142003275,00.html?sym=EXC “Tiger bowed. Bond bowed back. The girl leant forward expectantly. Tiger’s eyes bored into Bond’s, trying to read his plan. Bond had decided to have no plan, display no pattern. He would play completely at random, showing the symbol that his fist decided to [...]
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Thunderball 1 Take It Easy Mr Bond – Ian Fleminghttp://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780142003244,00.html?sym=EXC “‘Good morning, James. Sorry to pull you along a bit early in the morning. Got a very full day ahead. Wanted to fit you in before the rush.’ Bond’s excitement waned minutely. It was never a good sign when M addressed him by his Christian [...]
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On Her Majesty’s Secret Service 1 Seascape With Figures – Ian Fleminghttp://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780142003251,00.html?sym=EXC “The girl looked past him again. Her clenched right hand went up to her mouth. She said something, something Bond couldn’t understand, from behind it. Then a voice from very close behind Bond, said softly, silkily, ‘Don’t move or you get it back [...]
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Goldfinger 1 Reflections In A Double Bourbon – Ian Fleminghttp://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780142002049,00.html?sym=EXC “James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death. It was part of his profession to kill people. He had never liked doing it and when he had to kill he [...]
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Journey To the Center Of the Earth – Edward Morrishttp://www.ttapress.com/Journey.pdf Asimov’s Licence To Kill is definitely Nautilus a Hughes Challenger. 3.5 out of 5
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Private Wars – Greg Ruckahttp://www.gregrucka.com/privatewars1.html Twenty-one minutes. Then thirty. And then, coming back over the rise, Javlon, grinning from ear to ear, holding a pistol in one hand, and a box of ammunition in the other. When he saw her, he began jogging toward her. “Tracy! Look!” Alarmingly, he pointed the pistol at her, and [...]
A Gentleman’s Game 1 – Greg Ruckahttp://www.gregrucka.com/gentlemansgame1.html “Everyone involved, from the staff in the Ops Room to the officers of the Special Section—known in-house as the Minders—to the Director of Operations himself, Paul Crocker, understood that. Chace, then Minder Two, had distinguished herself, and Wallace had been right. One day, she would have his job. [...]
Pieces Of Modesty – Peter O’DonnellA sterling collection of short story adventures featuring the pair of super agent, super rogue, super spy, super cosmopolitan (well, with a rather Cockney accent) super thieves. Really well done, these tales, as a group, nothing ordinary at all to be seen, and lovers of Modesty and company will be [...]
The Soo Girl Charity – Peter O’DonnellA wealthy cheapskate, abusive to women, gropes the wrong woman named Blaise, while she is helping out with some charity work. Says Willie, asking for some advice: “I hope we won’t have to build a con situation. It’s interesting but it takes a long time. What I’d prefer would [...]
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Salamander Four – Peter O’DonnellModesty is posing for a sculpture for a friend, the artist a famous Finn. An industrial espionage chase manages to turn up at their door. 3.5 out of 5
A Perfect Night To Break Your Neck – Peter O’DonnellRunning an armed hold-up scam gang around Modesty Blaise is not too bright, particularly when she has friends involved she’d like to give a lot of money to. 4 out of 5
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The Giggle Wrecker – Peter O’DonnellFraser has a problem that Tarrant wants to quit over, arranging a defection of a triply-suspect Japanese bacteriologist from East Berlin: ‘Bloody hell. The longer I live, the more I sympathize with Guy Fawkes, except that blowing up politicians is too good for them. Do you think I could have [...]
A Better Day To Die – Peter O’DonnellModesty is travelling to visit her dying right-hand man Garcia, from the old days, and due to a car breakdown is on a bus. This gets hijacked by guerillas, along with a priest and some schoolgirls. Now unarmed, it is up to Willie to provide a distraction if [...]
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The Invisible Millionaire – Leslie CharterisA young woman writes to the Saint asking for help, and murder and impersonation follow. 3.5 out of 5
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Salvage For the Saint – Peter Bloxsom and John KruseA wealthy young trophy wife enlists the Saint’s help as he is conveniently interested in a boat race that her husband takes an interest in. When it appears he is killed during the event, mystery pasts and buried treasure enter into the occasion as she realises [...]
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The Saint In Pursuit – Leslie Charteris and Fleming LeeThe US military fraternity asks the Saint for a favour in tracking the daughter of a spy that has vanished when she receives a communication from her father. Needless to say, multiple nogoodniks are also interested in this young woman, and the possibilities of what she [...]
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Prelude For War – Leslie CharterisThe Saint does a sport of fireman work in this book as a leadup, and the novel is also known as The Saint Plays With Fire. ‘”Oh,” she said. “How silly of me! Of course I remember you now. You’re the hero, aren’t you?” “Am I?” She frowned a little. [...]
Alias the Saint – Leslie CharterisThere are three adventures involving the Saint. Alias the Saint : The Story of a Dead Man – Leslie Charteris Alias the Saint : The Impossible Crime – Leslie Charteris Alias the Saint : The National Debt – Leslie Charteris The Saint sets up a sting to trap a man [...]
The National Debt – Leslie CharterisThe Saint saves a boatload of gold, and manages to avoid getting himself gassed through the device of a couple of bottles and some dirt. 4 out of 5
The Impossible Crime – Leslie CharterisThe Saint deals with a bizarre locked room type of murder with some villains involved. 3 out of 5
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The Story Of A Dead Man – Leslie CharterisThe Saint sets up a sting to trap a man who is supposed to be dead. 3 out of 5
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Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel – Emmuska Orczyhttp://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602711.txt Again, this is not a full length novel, but a group of shorter works. So the title is apt, as there are indeed several adventures of Sir Percy and the gang to be found in these pages. A couple of the opening paragraphs are pretty funny: “You [...]
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The Chief’s Way – Emmuska Orczyhttp://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602711.txt In the early days of the League, they learn that the boss really does know best. 3.5 out of 5
The Little Doctor – Emmuska Orczyhttp://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602711.txt A doctor endangers himself by sympathising with the Pimpernel’s cause. 3 out of 5
In the Tiger’s Den – Emmuska Orczyhttp://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602711.txt Boasting about besting the League on your home turf should be done after the fact. 3.5 out of 5
The Lure of the Chateau – Emmuska Orczyhttp://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602711.txt Trying to arrest a town’s favorite son is not a good idea. 3 out of 5
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Fly-By-Night – Emmuska Orczyhttp://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602711.txt The Pimpernel helps out a royalist cell. “And so we are going to England!” Madame St. Luc mused. “A dull old country; but safe,” Lady Blakeney replied. 3.5 out of 5
The Stranger From Paris – Emmuska Orczyhttp://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602711.txt The League make some police look silly. 3 out of 5
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The Principal Witness – Emmuska Orczyhttp://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602711.txt The Pimpernel spirits off yet another couple of women. 2.5 out of 5
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Fie Sir Percy! – Emmuska Orczyhttp://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602711.txt Blakeney is bored when Pimpernel worship is happening at court, amusingly. 4 out of 5
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel – Emmuska Orczyhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5805 Chauvelin seeks him here, he seeks him there, many, many times. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel has a different structure as the book is a collection of short stories or escapades about people that the elusive Pimpernel himself has helped to rescue, along with his [...]
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A Battle Of Wits – Emmuska Orczyhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5805 Some agents fail to get much done. 2.5 out of 5
Needs Must – Emmuska Orczyhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5805 The Pimpernel corners Chauvelin, out on an investigation, into helping him get safe transport for some people. 4 out of 5
The Cabaret de La Liberte – Emmuska Orczyhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5805 A den of iniquity, a girl, and The League. 3 out of 5
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The Traitor – Emmuska Orczyhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5805 The League has a dirty rat. 3 out of 5
Out Of the Jaws of Death – Emmuska Orczyhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5805 A great granddaughter reads an old account. 3 out of 5
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How Jean Pierre Met the Scarlet Pimpernel – Emmuska Orczyhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5805 A young man recounts encountering the famous hero. 2.5 out of 5
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A Fine Bit Of Work – Emmuska Orczyhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5805 The Pimpernel deals with some double dealers. 3 out of 5
The Old Scarecrow – Emmuska Orczyhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5805 Letter writers and blackmail thwarting. 3.5 out of 5
Two Good Patriots – Emmuska Orczyhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5805 The Pimpernel dupes a couple into helping him escape. 3 out of 5
A Question of Passports – Emmuska Orczyhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5805 Papers signed by the bad guys are handy. 3.5 out of 5
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Sir Percy Explains – Emmuska Orczyhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5805 The Pimpernel gives a clinic on disguise and misdirection. 4 out of 5
Jimgrim and the Seventeen Thieves of El-Kalil – Talbot MundyAgain told from the point of view of a pretty much no-name assistant in events, this details Jimgrim holding together a situation to try and prevent a bloodbath in Jerusalem and elsewhere. This involves some cunning, making some deals that can’t be refused with Ali-Baba and [...]
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Brokenclaw – John GardnerBond vs halfbreed crim in torture test. A villain has a bit of a plan going to cause some economic chaos on the stock market, and a naval officer daughter of a man who owes him money sees an opportunity for infiltration. Bond and a Chinese partner follow up, to find a [...]
Octopussy and the Living Daylights – Ian FlemingAnother Bond book that is a collection of shorter pieces, Octopussy, The Living Daylights and The Property of a Lady. The first story is about a villain, the second Bond is sent as a sniper to kill a female assassin, and in the third he investigates a double [...]
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For Your Eyes Only – Ian FlemingNot a novel, but a collection of five stories. From a View to a Kill, For Your Eyes Only, Quantum of Solace, Risico and The Hildebrand Rarity. So, Bond investigates the death of a NATO employee, then looks into the death of a friend of M’s as a favour, [...]
The Hildebrand Rarity – Ian FlemingMillionaire stingray tail spousal corporal corrector is stuffed, piscatorially. 4 out of 5
Risico – Ian FlemingCIA drug caper. 3 out of 5
Quantum of Solace – Ian FlemingDull dinner party dirt dished. 2.5 out of 5
For Your Eyes Only – Ian FlemingBowhunter beautiful daughter. 4 out of 5
From A View To A Kill – Ian FlemingMotorbike murder trail. 3.5 out of 5
007 In New York – Ian FlemingBond’s Big Apple boyfriend blaming. 3 out of 5
The Property of A Lady – Ian FlemingCooking up egg auction will get you fried. 3.5 out of 5
Octopussy – Ian FlemingMajor murder, golden. 3 out of 5
The Living Daylights – Ian FlemingCello chick too cute to shoot. 4 out of 5
Beware the Picaroon! – John CassellsThe Picaroon is a poor man’s Saint, that is, if the Saint was more of a bent crook with a liking for a lot more English breakfasts. Ludovic Saxon is apparently ‘The Man Who Plucks the Plucker’. Lucky he wasn’t on Hey Hey It’s Saturday. Here, he is after a [...]
The Amazon – Nick CarterN3 gets sent to Amapa, where he ends up working with a local girl, who happens to currently be from Lausanne. He saves her from a scorpion, she is highly physically greatful, and decides she likes the mature white super spy jungle nookie quite a lot. She guides him well, and [...]
Crazy Hot – Tara JanzenThe guy in this in an ex-war hero and an excellent car thief, as well as being a crime busting secret agent. A fair bit of the Gone in Sixty Seconds thing going in here, except there is a lot of sex after the career of selling cars. Lots of ok [...]
Dr. Yes – Lisa CachA fairly tame sort of adventure, in most respects. A woman is recruited to work for B.L.I.S.S. to stop a doctor that has invented the ultimate Rohypnol type sexual slavery drug. It turns out she knew him in the past, and she ends up on a jungle adventure, while dancing around [...]
Dragon’s Claw – Peter O’DonnellThis book is not quite as interesting as the others, but still enjoyable. The band of villains, in general, would not find having lunch with The Joker disagreeable. The fire and brimstone preacher fastest gun in the world guy discovers, much as Gallandro did with Han Solo in Brian Daley’s trilogy, [...]
In the Rue Mongue – Emmuska Orczyhttp://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602931.txt A short work with the Pimpernel again amusingly pulling the wool over the eyes of his pursuers to reunite a scholarly gentleman with loved ones overseas. 3 out of 5
Pimpernel and Rosemary – Emmuska Orczyhttp://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602631.txt This book is about the next generation of Blakeneys and their circle. Peter, for one, and a young woman named Rosemary, who is of journalistic and writing intention. Another amusing tongue in cheek opening, too :- “To Peter Blakeney, Rosemary Fowkes’ engagement to his friend Tarkington seemed not only [...]
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A Child of the Revolution – Emmuska Orczyhttp://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602771.txt This is not really a Scarlet Pimpernel story either, the only time the Pimpernel appears is at the start and the end of the book. Percy Blakeney tells his Royal Highess the story of Andre Vallon and what he gets up to and the woman he is [...]
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Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel – Emmuska Orczyhttp://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602761.txt The Scarlet Pimpernel again has to deal with a femme fatale, but this time, she is Spanish. This doesn’t mean that the Robespierre types are not around, just that she is involved with one of them. The Pimpernel has to save a brash young man from her [...]
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