Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: re: Strange/Fun Spy Stories Message-ID: <3529@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 04:00:02 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3529 Posted: Fri Aug 9 04:00:02 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 05:25:22 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 33 > From: dec-lymph!arndt (Ken Arndt) > I have in my collection a few off beat spy stories and I wonder if anyone > else has read them or knows of any others. > CITY OF WHISPERING STONE, by George C. Chesbro (Signet '78) > The hero is a dwarf, Mongo the Magnificent, with a degree in > criminal science and a teaching position at a college who has risen above > his roots in the circus where for him "the price of being taken seriously > was a good performance." CITY OF WHISPERING STONE is the second of four Mongo novels, and the only one which doesn't cross the line into sf/fantasy. The other three are: SHADOW OF A BROKEN MAN, AN AFFAIR OF SORCERORS, and THE BEASTS OF VALHALLA. The first two of those three are in paperback; the last just came out in hardcover. There were also a number of Mongo short stories in the mystery magazines, but unfortunately they have as yet not been collected into a book. As for other rather off-center spy novels, there were quite a few somewhat risque (for their time --- these days, they're quite tame) Man from U.N.C.L.E. take-offs: The Man from S.T.U.D., The Man from T.O.M.C.A.T., The Lady from L.U.S.T., and so on. The only ones that really had any style were the various series by Ted Mark (real name: Ted Gottfried), especially The Man from O.R.G.Y. And there's also the Destroyer series by Richard Sapir and/or Warren Murphy. Trash, to be sure, but some of the most entertaining trash ever written. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA