SOLVED. Adult Fantasy, Thriller. A Spy, Secret Agent is friend of James Bond, trapped on an island during mission, gets transformed magically, maybe Bermuda Triangle or/and maybe Atlantis - read late 1980ies to mid 1995 so published surely before 1996. [s]

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And now the December bump, for that is now a day early, but wow, time flies.

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A few days ago I searched again, looked through one of the publishers author list, if something popped up, about 2000 names and if interesting sounding (like described in the first post), I read the longer descriptions or blurbs of the book(s). Nothing. Not sure, if that was really all authors published, but as it went back quite some time, it may be.
That was Ullstein, so I might have only 2 possible publishers left, Goldstein Goldmann and Heyne. Will try to do the same for them.

[Waldo]

Good luck.

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Bump - nearing the 5 year anniversary, yeah, oh, wow.

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Ingo wrote: "Bump - nearing the 5 year anniversary, yeah, oh, wow."
Hopefully Dr ihunde can be of help with "lost" books. LOL

That was an odd bit of spam. Poorly written. But still, funny. I mean, 5 years..! One must have a sense of humour.

Anyway. A little show of support to you, Ingo. People are still reading your request.

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May Bump (nearing 5 year search anniversary, oh well, I will keep trying to find it).

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Bump - in a few days it has been 5 years. No anniversary, but I am still hoping that one day it will be solved. Thinking about new search keywords, I came up blank, sorry to say.

[Teetee]

is it Charlie Higson's young Bond book Silverfin?

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Teetee wrote: "is it Charlie Higson's young Bond book Silverfin?"
Interesting take, but most probably not, way to late: 2005 published).
Still for the click:
SilverFin
Will check it further, as the description reads interesting, and will report back here. Might take a while, though.

Added my memory of the timeframe I read this to subject-title.
I am VERY sure it was before 1998, as I moved then in my current flat, and this was a book my father bought, but gave away after we both read it, so I do not own it, and I searched once at my parents house, but the paperback collection was already gone, and this was the only book I want to read again (but now not in German translation).

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Bump for 2020!

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Easter Bunny! Nah, Easter Bump! Stay safe and keep calm!
Tried a few searches with worldcat, but did not find anything.

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June Bump. Today is also my Birthday, still kicking, turned 54 today.
And still searching, nearing the end of the 6th year of this thread on Goodreads.

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Happy birthday, Ingo. All things age well with time, including book requests? Yes, I remember this one from way back.

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Hope you are all well, stay healthy and save!

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Bump - 6 years now mid-July, still searching.

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Bump, I am 2 days late, sorry!

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[Alan]

Have you tried Dennis Wheatley? The least Russian-sounding name ever (unless it has been mangled in translation), but did a lot of spy-slash-paranormal fiction, mostly in the 1960s-70s. Can't positively say any of it is in the Bermuda Triangle as it is not really something I read much of.

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Thank you both for the help, will look into it.
It may well be that my memory regarding the author's name is wrong, so good catch.

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Stoß für den 1. Advent ( German for Bump for first Advent ).

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[Capn]

Hi Ingo,

I really want to help with this (but not sure I can!). I live in Switzerland - will keep an eye out at the secondhand book stores for you. ;)

Can we have a quick summary of where you are at in your search?

Just to confirm, the publisher will be Goldmann Verlag or Heynes, right? (I don't suppose you could ask the publishers themselves?)

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And the Amazons/female tribe - was heisst das auf Deutsch? Amazonas? Amazone?

Any chance the island was Scythia?

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Capn wrote: "And the Amazons/female tribe - was heisst das auf Deutsch? Amazonas? Amazone?

Any chance the island was Scythia?"

As German is my first language, I will answer your questions with a short summary in German:
Scythia sagt mmir nichts, muss ich mal kucken.

Der Verlag ist nach meiner Erinnerung Heyne, Ullstein oder Goldmann, die alle so ähnliche Bücher rausgebracht haben.
Die Handlung driftet zu SF/Fantasy.
Ein Freund von James Bond macht sich auf die Suche nach ihm, nachdem er verschwunden ist, wohl auf einer Mission. Dabei stösst er auf eine Insel, die Atlantis sein könnte, und/oder im Bermuda-Dreieck liegt, schwer zu finden - dauernd vernebelt?
Die Insel wird nur von Frauen bewohnt, allerdings findet er Bond, der mittlerweile auch zur Frau umgewandelt ist - sei es durch Magie, Nahrung, den Eigenschaften der Insel o.ähnl., ähnlichkeiten zu Lesbos - der Name taucht eher nicht auf.
Der Held mutiert auch zur Frau und bleibt auf der Insel.
(view spoiler)[Eine Szene, an die ich mich detailliert erinnern kann, der Held hat geprahlt, eine Methode zu kennen, wie er eine Frau beim Sex ohne Waffen töten kann. Dies macht er dann auch später im Buch: indem er Luft in ihre Vagina blässt ...! Ob das wirklich funktioniert, habe ich nicht recherchiert. (hide spoiler)]

Meine Erinnerung nach ca. 30-40 Jahren recht schwammigt, alles
also mit Vorsicht zu geniessen. Es war ein Taschenbuch, evtl. gelb, und nicht sehr dick oder lang, keine 400 Seiten.

Das dürfte in etwa das sein, was ich nach und nach auf Englisch hier geschrieben habe. Achja, es nicht Clive Cussler / Dirk Pitt, und den Namen des Helden weiss ich nicht mehr. Stimmung is leicht satirisch, in etwa Dirk Gentlys holistic detective agency. Bei Suchen tauchte immer wieder Clive Cussler auf, so in die Richtung geht es auch, aber keines seiner Bücher passte. Ausserdem kannte ich den damals schon, das hätte ich mir gemerkt.

Der Autoren Name war irgendwas auf Deutsch schwer auszusprechendes, Russisch, Ukrainisch, Tchechisch o.ähnl.

Ich habe bis jetzt keine Veranlassung gesehen, die Verlage anzuschreiben.

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(view spoiler)[ (Ach, wie schrecklich! Nai, ich glaube dass es ist genau wie wenn mann in der Po Pressluft geben - mit genuegend (viel, hoch) Druck reißt das Epithel oder verursacht zumindest innere Blutungen. Eben so, mann sollte nicht sex in der Wasser haben: das entstehende Vakuum kann auch innere Organe schädigen.) :O
(hide spoiler)]

Na ja, Deutsch ist sicher nicht meiner Muttersprache! ;)

What a disgusting sounding book! Ha ha! No wonder it was so memorable! Boy, if it ever gets found, I'd really like to write a Psych paper on the author's view of women, ha ha. Spectacular. :S

So I came across a whole shelf of yellow-spined Heynes, and I looked through each one - they were all Westerns. :S

Do you think it's possible that Heynes (or whoever) had the book pulped if a copyright infringement came to the Estate's attention? I don't know if that happens, but it sure would make it tough to find!

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TMI for a public forum, please let us not get into the horrid details.
Zu viel Information für ein öffentliches Forum, bitte lass uns nicht weiter in die schrecklichen Details gehen.

Or use Spoiler-Tags, so not everyone has to read it.
Oder setz Spoiler-Tags, damit das nicht jeder lesen muss.

Danke - Thanks

(Sidenote: as far as I remember, it was not described en detail in the book, only suggested that death would follow).