In Secret Service : A Novel (Paperback)

from MSWallack

I really wanted to like In Secret Service (I suppose due to my affinity for James Bond's creator Ian Fleming who is a major character in the story). However, the story just didn't work. Silver tells his tale in two parts: The "wrapper" follows a Yale professor as she reads a manuscript bequeathed...

from phalaborwa

Captures the OO7 style quite well, but a bit choppy. Movie in the near future?

from minfo

A fast and ADULT-themed read, it was quite choppy at points but with some interesting plot twists. The central character at times seems dumber than a stump but in the space of barely a couple of days is world-wise and amazingly savvy. You'll need to suspend a LOT of beliefs to get through this on...

from MacHaniff

First ever review here. The book sets you off in the shoes of an American university Art teacher, Dr Amy Greenburg, when she received a letter to head to Ireland to collect an unknown item, to be inherited by her late grandpa. When she got hold of the item, she thought it was just some pieces of ...

from jfe16

When contacted to retrieve the contents of her late grandfather's safety deposit box, history professor Amy Greenberg finds that her inheritance is an unpublished, long-hidden account of spying during the Second World War. And, to her astonishment, she discovers the author is none other than Jame...