Very enjoyable espionage thriller. I figured out the twist about 2/3rds into the book, but a fun read nonetheless. Will definitely be going back to read the first in this series, but first…
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Very enjoyable espionage thriller. I figured out the twist about 2/3rds into the book, but a fun read nonetheless. Will definitely be going back to read the first in this series, but first…
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Didn‘t realize it was No. 2 in a series until I was knee-deep and could not turn back. 🤣
This was probably a more realistic spy novel than ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold‘ but I preferred the drama and romance of that novel over so much of the day to day training in this one. I did like this enough to pick — it is well written and devastating in its own way.
The first 70 odd pages are very slow going but once into the narrative about how yng actress Charlie is recruited into an undercover plot to catch the head of a pro Palestinian bombing cell the storytelling starts to improve. It's not my favourite Le Carre but an interesting shift away from the Cold War storytelling + particularly pertinent as the Middle East is the centre of the news every day. Looking forward now to watching the BBC series
I would buy this book purely for the title 😂
It's part of a James Bond spoof, sexploitation spy series from the '60s/'70s, pseudonymously written by prolific pulp & DC Comics writer, Gardner Fox. It's clear from the other titles & blurbs that these are horrendously misogynistic & racist and, presumably, samey.
The MC is an agent of L.U.S.T. named Eve Drum, code number Oh-Oh-Sex: it took me a minute to realise that you 💥 a 🥁🙄
A pretty good spy thriller!
https://reecaspieces.com/2023/11/13/kennedy-35-by-charles-cumming-mysteriouspres...
Another post of the Lost Place area Teufelsberg in Berlin which I visited last week.
Can you tell I'm fascinated by Lost Places? 😉
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Graffiti in the Lost Place area in Berlin, the Teufelsberg (German for Devil's Mountain). It used to be a US listening station in West Berlin during the Cold War.
Visited last week.
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