Nowadays John Gardner is probably best known for his James Bond continuation novels, Icebreaker, Licensed Renewed etc, but he also created some other outstanding series...
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The latest edition of Paperback Fanatic (No. 49) by Justin Marriott just arrived, along the new Men’s Adventure Quarterly (No. 11), and both are terrific issues!...
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The Churchill Diamonds by Bob Langley (Sphere, 1986) Bob Langley’s The Churchill Diamonds, (Sphere, 1986), is the sort of historical adventure novel that you do...
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I have been writing an article for Justin Marriott’s esteemed The Paperback Fanatic on World War II Assassination novels of the 1970s and 1980s, which looks back...
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Vintage paperback collectors generally bemoan the shift in the late 1960s/early 1970s from illustrated covers to photographic covers. While the photographic covers...
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Spies and ghosts are not an usual combination. There are exceptions, such as Raymond Hawkey’s compelling It, but in general serious spy novels and the...
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