- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Forge Books; First Edition edition (May 1 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312876440
- ISBN-13: 978-0312876449
- Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 14.7 x 2.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 499 g
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,558,474 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Ian Fleming would like to put his World War II espionage career and his grisly postwar assassination duties behind him. Not possible, thanks to a plea for help from Prescott Quick, another of "Churchill's boys." Fleming is loathe to get involved, but since it appears someone may be in a position to expose the existence of Churchill's secret cadre of postwar assassins, he flies to New Orleans, where Quick has established himself as a streetwise private investigator. Fleming and Quick settle into a Holmes and Watson relationship as more murders surface that may be connected to the bad old days. New Orleans in the late forties is a murky mixture of racism, voodoo, police corruption, and sexual profligacy. Fawcett, who also writes the Mycroft Holmes series, weaves an arresting fictional persona out of the raw material provided by the life of the James Bond creator. This series improves with each entry, in no small part thanks to the author's uncanny ability to create a vivid sense of time and place. Wes Lukowsky
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Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, was once an operative for British Naval Intelligence. Rumors hold that Fleming's job occasionally required a bit of "wet work," slang for assassination, but he never spoke of it, nor of the other secrets of his life during wartime. By the 1950s, Fleming had settled into a routine, spending part of the year in London and the rest on the island of Jamaica, at the estate he called Goldeneye . . .
Honor Among Spies
Fleming is recovering from witnessing the death of a woman he had come to love when he receives an urgent message from Prescott, a former colleauge in the spy game. Prescott has set up as a private investigator in New Orleans, and his latest case, which began as a simple background check on a wealthy man's new son-in-law, has turned deadly. The bride has been gruesomely murdered and one of her brothers has disappeared. Prescott himself been threatened, not physically, but with the revelation of his WWII activities, which could endanger not just Prescott, but England herself.
Investigating, Fleming and Prescott discover that the bride's murder is connected to a new religious cult run by a mysterious woman from the former spies' joint past. Before Fleming's adventure is over, he will have seen the darkest parts of New Orleans' fabled French Quarter, formed a temporary partnership with a pair of local pool sharks, witnessed pervese sex acts, and met a bewitching voodoo queen.
Layered with intrigue, packed with concealed truths and hidden identities, Honor Among Spies is another fast-paced adventure in the fictional life of Ian Fleming, in the days before James Bond.
Honor Among Spies
Fleming is recovering from witnessing the death of a woman he had come to love when he receives an urgent message from Prescott, a former colleauge in the spy game. Prescott has set up as a private investigator in New Orleans, and his latest case, which began as a simple background check on a wealthy man's new son-in-law, has turned deadly. The bride has been gruesomely murdered and one of her brothers has disappeared. Prescott himself been threatened, not physically, but with the revelation of his WWII activities, which could endanger not just Prescott, but England herself.
Investigating, Fleming and Prescott discover that the bride's murder is connected to a new religious cult run by a mysterious woman from the former spies' joint past. Before Fleming's adventure is over, he will have seen the darkest parts of New Orleans' fabled French Quarter, formed a temporary partnership with a pair of local pool sharks, witnessed pervese sex acts, and met a bewitching voodoo queen.
Layered with intrigue, packed with concealed truths and hidden identities, Honor Among Spies is another fast-paced adventure in the fictional life of Ian Fleming, in the days before James Bond.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Certainly not witty,
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This review is from: Honor Among Spies (Hardcover)
I have read many espionage books, from all sources.I like them when the content is rich in dialogue and when minds are at work, from all sides.I have not found what I was looking for in this book. I closed it on page 40. I opened it a few weeks later thinking that the characters would have attained a higher degree of maturity but they had remainded vain and undecided on what to say and what to do. And all this wasted in in a place I know: New Orleans.
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Okay, if you liked Ian Fleming's style,
By Keith Nichols - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Honor Among Spies (Hardcover)
The author effectively apes the florid style of Ian Fleming's James Bond series. The characters are colorful enough for a Fleming novel, the plot is sufficiently engaging, and the settings surrounding the action are well evoked. If you yearn for a new, good old James Bond style adventure, this will do the job.
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