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I miss my youth...sigh. I've been working on putting a new desk chair together for 2 days now. I had to lay down yesterday and fell asleep.
Anyway, when I was young and "Bond, James Bond", Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin were saving the world along side Kelly Robinson and Alexander Scott while Steed and Mrs. Peel handled the more esoteric challenges Matt Helm got short shrift.
Largely because of the atrocious Dean Martian movies and the short lived (deservedly so) Anthony Franciosa TV series.
As I ...more
Anyway, when I was young and "Bond, James Bond", Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin were saving the world along side Kelly Robinson and Alexander Scott while Steed and Mrs. Peel handled the more esoteric challenges Matt Helm got short shrift.
Largely because of the atrocious Dean Martian movies and the short lived (deservedly so) Anthony Franciosa TV series.
As I ...more
All of the Matt Helm books I have read are great but this is the best yet. In an earlier review of this series I explained that I first read the Matt Helm books back when I was in the US Army 1966 to 1967. Paperbacks mostly, handed down from some other Brother and Sister soldiers. I was hooked on them. Didn’t get to read them all but I hope to finish them all before I go to see Saint Peter (Praying He let’s me in). That goes for Mickey Spillane’s, Robert B. Parker’s and John D. MacDonald’s too.
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Sep 10, 2013
Samuel
marked it as to-read
