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From: djl@ptsfb.UUCP (Dave Lampe)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: Strange/Fun Spy stories
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Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 00:32:57 EDT
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I have several "Strange/Funny" spy stories to recommend, unfortunatly
none of them are new and I would be surprised if any were in print now.

"The Game of X" by Robert Sheckley, delacort press, 1965.
Subtitled "a novel of upmanship espionage"
	Have you ever wondered how a spy becomes a spy?
	The answer, William Nye discovered, was suspiciously
	easy. One was invited into the business by a friend -
	no tests of super-human fortitude, no karate lessons,
	in fact no questions at all.
	All Nye had to do was follow instructions and nothing
	would go wrong. Nothing did. Instead he found himself
	top man in the spy racket."

"Matzohball" and "Loxfinger" both by Sol Weinstein, Pocket Books, 1966.
Staring Isreal Bond, agent Oy-Oy-7
	Yes, you guessed exactly what they are like, but they
	they are funny if you like Yiddish humor.

"The Terrible Game" by Dan Tyler Moore, Signet, 1957.
	This book was written dyring the cold war when Russia
	was evil, and the U.S. military was the savior of the
	free world. There is an independant country in the mountains
	somewhere in Asia which would be the perfect site for
	Atomic cannon to menace the trans-Siberian railroad,
	The reason they have remained independant since the time
	of Alexander the Great is because noone is alowed in unless
	he can win the game of Ott. Ott combines archery, horsemanship,
	wrestling and swordsmanship.



Dave Lampe @ Pacific Bell
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