Yet more detective fiction, this time in the guise of espionage and the Secret Service.
Diamonds are Forever
Ian FlemingPenguin 2009, Paperback, 304 pages, £7.99
Oddly for a secret agent, James Bond has been roped in to investigating a diamond smuggling operation. A dentist in Africa gives the stones to a man in a helicopter who takes them to London [...]
There are more spoilers below. Go and read the books first if you’re going to, I’ll ruin it for you otherwise.
Mexico Set (Harper Books)
Len DeightonHarper 2010, Paperback, 416 pages, £7.99
Continuing from Berlin Match, Bernard Samson’s wife Fiona has defected, and Bernard himself is in Mexico, looking for the soviet agent Eric Stinnes, who had arrested and interrogated [...]
