Honor Among Spies
A Novel of the Espionage Adventures of Ian Fleming
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Publisher Description
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 colleague 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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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Fawcett's mediocre third effort (after Death to Spies and Siren Song) to portray Ian Fleming as the prototype for his creation, James Bond, finds the former MI-5 operative in postwar retirement on Jamaica enjoying the good life, or at least trying to. An importunate letter from an old colleague now living in New Orleans, Prescott W. Quick, suggests that more is known of their spy past than is healthy for them. Sharing Bond's resolve and patriotism if not his suavity and access to exotic weaponry, Fleming abandons his island retreat and heads for New Orleans. There Fleming and his somewhat unreliable colleague race a formidable police inspector known as the Red Dwarf to locate a suspected killer who possesses sensitive information about himself and Quick. Kinky sex, voodoo and the ambience of New Orleans at Mardi Gras as well as the treacherous surrounding bayous give the author plenty of atmospheric material to work with, but these promising ingredients never quite gel into a gripping story. Still, the large Bond following should ensure that plenty more Fleming adventures flow from Fawcett.
