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Oct. 29th, 2008 11:35 pmAdam Diment? If still alive, he'd be in his mid-sixties by now.
He wrote four rather good James-Bondy secret agent thrillers from 1967-1971. These are sometimes described as spoofs, but in my view they're neither spoof nor pastiche, just very much of their time, the Swinging Sixties. Less martini and Savile Row, more pot and Carnaby Street; just as much sex and violence, though. Think Austin Powers done in-period and (more or less) serious.
The titles were The Dolly Dolly Spy, The Great Spy Race, The Bang Bang Birds and Think, Inc.. (I have all but Bang Bang, which I must track down for completeness' sake; they're thoroughly out of date, but still a fun read.) Diment ended the last one with what I interpret as a definite plot hook for a sequel, and then...
Vanished.
There was a website devoted to the books, but that's vanished too (I should have saved it off-line) and web information is extremely spotty. I've seen one suggestion that Diment went all hippie and headed off to some Maharishi-run ashram in India, another that his hero's fictional drug habit was but a pale shadow of his own and it caught up with him.
Who can say? Can you?
He wrote four rather good James-Bondy secret agent thrillers from 1967-1971. These are sometimes described as spoofs, but in my view they're neither spoof nor pastiche, just very much of their time, the Swinging Sixties. Less martini and Savile Row, more pot and Carnaby Street; just as much sex and violence, though. Think Austin Powers done in-period and (more or less) serious.
The titles were The Dolly Dolly Spy, The Great Spy Race, The Bang Bang Birds and Think, Inc.. (I have all but Bang Bang, which I must track down for completeness' sake; they're thoroughly out of date, but still a fun read.) Diment ended the last one with what I interpret as a definite plot hook for a sequel, and then...
Vanished.
There was a website devoted to the books, but that's vanished too (I should have saved it off-line) and web information is extremely spotty. I've seen one suggestion that Diment went all hippie and headed off to some Maharishi-run ashram in India, another that his hero's fictional drug habit was but a pale shadow of his own and it caught up with him.
Who can say? Can you?
