Word: bondian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help thwart an ingenious Communist scheme to penetrate U.S. security. The plot involves a trip to the Greek island of Mykonos, and MacInnes evokes a picture of its windswept charm, just as in previous books she evoked the charm of Brittany, Venice and Berlin. Despite the current mania for Bondian gadgetry, her spies still hide their microfilms in hollowed-out tie clasps; neither her heroes nor villains spill gore, and her hussy enemy spies suggest, but only suggest, that their heels are slightly rounded...
...beguiling are The French Doll, by Vincent O'Connor, which has a CIA hero and a racy Paris setting; The Interrogators, by Allan Prior, in which two doughty Scotland Yard men are hampered in their pursuit by their heavy drinking; Midnight Plus One, by Gavin Lyall, a kaleidoscopic Bondian yarn; and Cunning as a Fox, by Kyle Hunt (a pseudonym of John Creasey), in which the sleuth is a psychiatrist hired by the wanted teen-ager's frantic parents...
...sleuth are The French Doll, by Vincent O'Connor, which has a CIA hero and a racy Paris setting; The Interrogators, by Allan Prior, in which two doughty Scotland Yard men are hampered in their pursuit by their heavy drinking; Midnight Plus One, by Gavin Lyall, a kaleidoscopic Bondian yarn; and Cunning as a Fox, by Kyle Hunt (a pseudonym of John Creasey), in which the sleuth is a psychiatrist hired by the wanted teenager's frantic parents...