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Honor Among Spies [Hardcover]

Quinn Fawcett (Author)
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May 1, 2004
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.

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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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About the Author

Quinn Fawcett is the author of a number of mystery novels, including a series about Mycroft Holmes, older brother of the famous Sherlock (Embassy Row, The Flying Scotsman, and more) and a series detailing the espionage adventures of Ian Fleming (including Death to Spies and Siren Song). Retired from a respectable position with the Courts, Fawcett moved from London to the Caribbean a number of years ago.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Forge Books; 1st edition (May 1, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312876440
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312876449
  • Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,536,986 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Okay, if you liked Ian Fleming's style, August 2, 2004
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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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