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Read the previous chapters: PART I: HEROIC NAMES PART II: BLACK MASKS PART III: SECRET SOURCE INTERMISSION: CARRUTHERS EX MACHINA PART IV: SAVING ENGLAND V. Lone Hands

Sydney Horler’s novel In the Dark, published by Hodder & Stoughton in Britain in 1927, introduced a new hero. Bearing the improbable name of Buncombe ‘Bunny’ Chipstead, we are ...

  Read the previous chapters: PART i: HEROIC NAMES PART ii: BLACK MASKS PART iii: SECRET SOURCE INTERMISSION: DEUS EX CARRUTHERS IV. Saving England

‘I could appreciate the need in a strange place of some point of support, of one or two things scattered around which are familiar and understandable even if they are only Sydney Horler’s novels, a gin and tonic.’

– Graham ...

  Image created using Canva’s AI tool.   PART I PART II PART III INTERMISSION: CARRUTHERS...

  III. secret source Read Part I here , and Part II here .

In The Dark Frontier, Eric Ambler developed his parody of the thriller by creating a novel within his novel, ‘Conway Carruthers, Dept. Y’, the spirit of which entwines and then takes over the reality of his protagonist, physicist Professor Barstow.

After coming across a copy of this lurid thriller in the lounge of his hotel – the jacket shows ‘a lantern-jawed man wi...

  Read Part One here. PART TWO: BURIED TREASURE   ‘This story is set in and around Jamaica.It is a contest of wits and strength between an American Secret Agent, Commander James Gunn, and an International free-lance spy of Chinese/German extraction – Dr. No.’[i]  

It’s almost impossible to read the opening lines of Fleming’s outline of ‘James Gunn – Secret Agent’ and not get a thrill. Morge...

This is a follow-up to Looking for James Gunn . Part One: A SPY IN JAMAICA

In February, producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson announced that they were stepping down and handing creative control of the James Bond films to Amazon. Since then, there has been a lot of speculation about how Amazon might proceed: according to The Hollywood Reporter, before the deal was struck the company had pitched ideas for several TV se...

 

Idon’t know what to file this under: perhaps ‘a near-discovery’? Discussing the possibility of Amazon making a James Bond TV series with my friend Ajay Chowdhury a couple of weeks ago, I somewhat randomly remembered that years ago I had rummaged around a bit to see if I could find anything more than already known about Ian Fleming’s involvement in writing an outline and pilot script for a TV series in the mid-1950s. Set in Jamaica this was called, variously, ‘Commander Jamaica’ and ‘James ...

  II. BLACK MASKS Read Part I here ....

  They thought he was dead. They were wrong. Spy Out The Land is now available in the United States in the following formats:

Ebook: $0.99

Paperback: $9.99

Hardcover: $23.00

The prices are the minimum Amazon will allow for the length of the book. Happy reading!

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In 1975, Antony Burgess wrote perhaps the strangest treatment for a James Bond film ever penned. jeremy duns uncovers the story Embed from Getty Images

It’s now over two years since Daniel Craig took his final bow as James Bond in No Time to Die, and there’s still no sign of what the future holds for the film series. In November, 007 producer Barbara Broccoli revealed to The Guardian that she and her team hadn’t even begun to think about how to reinvent the...