I assume you do. Let’s also assume you have loved ones who like them, and with the holiday season coming up, you’d like to give books as gifts this year.
No, I’m not going to push my own stuff.
But remember Q.R. Markham’s Assassin of Secrets (Jesus, even I wouldn’t have gone for that title) the almost entirely plagiarized debut novel that was recently yanked off the shelves? Did you know that copies are going for fifty bucks on eBay? I sorta wish I’d bought one now.
Know someone who likes spy novels? Or, even better, if you’re looking to read something a little out of your usual, these books are certified good enough to steal from.
What are these ‘books’ that you speak of? Are they some type of blogs or something?
The first two Charles McCarry books are brilliant. (The third is quite good.) I’d be tempted to pay $50 just to see how on earth you can cut and paste Charles McCarry and James Bond into a single text and have it plausibly pass for a unified whole.
Nice blog post, I have been “out of the loop” news wise on the Assassin of Secrets thing while being on medical leave/in hospital but while I was at home, I found my James Bond movies as well as the backlog of novels, including the above mentioned Benson and Gardner novels, nicely engrossing, recommended reads.
I haven’t read Body of Secrets but Bamford’s first book on the NSA, The Puzzle Palace, was fascinating.
Yes, specially formatted blogs. Some are even printed up and bound together for your convenience.
It’s good to hear recommendations.
And I don’t imagine they went well together at all, which is how some people write.