Doug Bassett (dj_bassett@yahoo.com)
Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:25:16 -0800 (PST)
I'm not the world's biggest Ian Fleming fan (actually, I like
the movies a lot more than the books), but if you like the
original Fleming novels you'll like Amis's Colonel Sun, which
is very, very close to the original.
There's nothing to say that spies can't be hard-boiled, but
I'm not sure Bond and Fleming qualify. The cartoonish
villains and very British tone put me more in mind of the
Robert Louis Stevenson/H. Rider Haggard/Talbot Mundy school
of British adventure fiction. As somebody's already said,
Adam Hall's
"Quiller" series, particularly the excellent debut The
Quiller Memorandum, are far closer in spirit to the
hardboiled style.
At least in my opinion.
Doug
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