d4doome · @d4doome
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The Chinese Visitor (1965), James Eastwood’s first Anna Zordan spy novel. It belongs to the sexy lady spy sub-genre. Anna is an expert seductress which is useful although she can certainly handle herself in other situations. Good fun.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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d4doome · @d4doome
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Kenneth Royce’s 1970 spy novel The XYY Man is about a cat burglar recruited as a spy but with an interesting psychiatric twist. He can't help being a thief. Gritty, action-packed with a serious edge and highly entertaining. Highly recommended.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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d4doome · @d4doome
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The Bright Blue Death, a 1967 Nick Carter Killmaster spy novel. There are super-lasers and a dead scientist who has turned blue, literally. There's a splendid crazy bad girl and a fine kinky megalomaniac villain. Great pulp spy thriller stuff.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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gulseren adakli · @gulserendipity
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@jwisser @Renee A beautiful historical fiction that is surprisingly unorthodox for Passenger to Frankfurt en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenge

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d4doome · @d4doome
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I, Lucifer (1967), the third of Peter O’Donnell’s superb Modesty Blaise novels. Modesty finds herself up against Lucifer, a disturbed young man with unusual powers. He thinks he is Lucifer. The novel is clever, witty and great fun.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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d4doome · @d4doome
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E. Howard Hunt, Watergate conspirator and CIA agent, wrote many excellent hardboiled crime and spy novels. As David St John he wrote Diabolus in 1971. A hugely enjoyable lurid occult/spy thriller featuring drugs, satanic cults and sex orgies.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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Raccoon :verified: · @Raccoon
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My brain sitting here connecting the ideas surrounding and thinking, and the end of 's ...

So like, the main villian in the rogues-gallery of spies and criminals is handling money for the KGB (in the movie it's a financial firm involved in terrorism under the table), and after James Bond takes all his money in a Poker game (betting NATO money), he has him in a cell and is torturing him, but JB keeps laughing because "you're going to die." So then the Soviet spy (another agent from the finance company) walks in and he's like, "hang on, I just need to torture him more and I'll have the money." and the spy is like "Sorry, we don't care about the money, we care about our operation." and kills him... then leaves James Bond alive to escape.

This is Organizational Thinking in action.
(contd)

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d4doome · @d4doome
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Francis Durbridge's The World of Tim Frazer is a 1962 spy novel based on his 1960-61 TV serial (which sadly has not survived). A very ordinary man gets mixed up in the murky world of espionage, just the sort of thing Durbridge did very well.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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d4doome · @d4doome
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Mickey Spillane’s 1967 spy thriller The Delta Factor. A thief is forced to do a job for the government, breaking a scientist out of an impregnable 17th century fortress. He also wants revenge. Fun, and more lighthearted than his Hammer books.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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d4doome · @d4doome
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Hammerhead (AKA Shockwave), a violent action-packed 1963 Johnny Fedora spy thriller by Desmond Cory. Fedora, a ruthless British spy with a licence to kill, was created in 1951, a year before Bond.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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d4doome · @d4doome
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Dead Duck is an original 1966 novel inspired by the TV series The Avengers. It was credited to Patrick Macnee but was written by Peter Leslie. People keep dying and they've all eaten duck. An engagingly offbeat story with a fine crazy finale.

My review: cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/20

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Larry Pfeiffer · @larrypfeifferdc
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One for each eye? Check out by @almakatsu! Available TODAY wherever good spy fiction is found!

@CIA

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d4doome · @d4doome
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A.S. Fleischman's 1953 spy thriller Danger in Paradise. An American in Bali is handed a package by a girl. She is killed, except that that's not possible.

Excitement, intrigue, dangerous sexy women, romance and a very solid plot. Great stuff.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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The Slava 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 · @slava
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Today will share a book that I did read. If you're looking for something to read, check out "The Spy and the Traitor" - an espionage novel based on a true story. It's a MUST-READ! 🤩 Get it here: a.co/d/bMxMyrG

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d4doome · @d4doome
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John Flagg's spy novel The Lady and the Cheetah (1951). A reporter finds himself suddenly famous, and is offered a job by a countess, to retrieve some letters. The job is not so simple.

A clever plot, the ending is good and there is indeed a cheetah. Her name is Iris and she plays an important role in the story.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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d4doome · @d4doome
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Len Deighton’s Horse Under Water (1963), the second unnamed spy novel, with typical Deighton labyrinthine plot twists. A cache of counterfeit money has to be retrieved from a sunken German U-boat, but not even the unnamed spy's boss knows what the real mission is. Great stuff.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

thriller thrillers Deighton

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d4doome · @d4doome
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John Flagg's Death and the Naked Lady is a 1951 spy novel starts when the hero finds the jade owls in his luggage. They're not his and they're going to lead to trouble. Plus there are three femmes fatales to deal with.

Fast-paced and enjoyable with a nicely devious plot.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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d4doome · @d4doome
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Tong in Cheek (1973), 2nd of Gardner Francis Fox’s Cherry Delight sexy spy thrillers written under the name Glen Chase.

Cherry is a secret agent working for N.Y.M.P.H.O., a shadowy top-secret US government agency.

This time she is up against an alliance between the Mafia and Chinese tongs.

If spy sleaze is your thing you’ll enjoy it.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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d4doome · @d4doome
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Assignment Helene (1959), an excellent Sam Durell spy novel written by Edward S. Aarons.

Durell ends up in the jungle on the track of gun-runners with two beautiful women, both decidedly untrustworthy, an equally untrustworthy US diplomat and a broken-down American ex-CIA agent.

There's a good mystery here, and there's action.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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d4doome · @d4doome
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The Towers of Silence (1966), the second Peter Ward spy novel by E. Howard Hunt (of Watergate fame).

Peter Ward is investigating the death of a CIA agent in India.

Ward is a realistic kind of spy who relies on tradecraft rather than instinct. He's a hard-headed professional, ruthless, unromantic.

A good spy thriller.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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