THE 9-MONTH CAPER - Ted Mark

O.R.G.Y. WEEK

Steve Victor, the man from O.R.G.Y., is in Latin America and feeling a little trapped.  Trapped in a bathroom with a beautiful woman, Fidel Castro, and a time-bomb.  Trapped in a room making love to a beautiful rebel when a revolution breaks out. Trapped in a brothel basement with four horny hookers and a marvelous supply of champagne. Trapped by the effects of a biological weapon that will put a serious damper on what he does best - make love to beautiful women.

Steve Victor may not be the world's greatest spy, but he is the world's greatest sex expert. Even an expert can learn something new, though, so Victor is always willing to jump right in and be a willing student.

But right now Steve Victor has a job to do ... find Vicki Winters, the beautiful agent with British Intelligence. Vicki has gone missing after she had been assigned to finding out more information about a super secret weapon - a weapon so dangerous and so powerful, only a woman could cope with the knowledge of its effects. But Victor will soon learn about this weapon, first hand, as he becomes the first (unwilling) target.

This book was much more in line with what I was expecting the first book.  More direct sex action with a little bit of spy intrigue to keep it from devolving into straight porn. It is deliciously ludicrous and you can understand why many readers and booksellers refer to this as satire. This is very much like James Bond on steroids Viagra.

This book ends with an interesting twist and I can't help but wonder how we go on to have twelve (or more) sequels and I'm hoping the twist will be addressed in the next book. 

I'm still not fond of the term 'sleaze' for this kind of book.  It's adventure satire with a healthy dose of free love sex (this was written in the mid-60's remember). And it's downright fun.

Looking for a good book? The 9-Month Caper by Ted Mark is the second book in a series from the 1960's that satirized the James Bond spy books with a main character even more philandering than Bond.

3-1/2 stars

* * * * * *

The 9-Month Caper

author: Ted Mark

publisher: Lancer Books

ASIN ‏: ‎ B000M77298

paperback, 174 pages

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

MURDLE VOLUME 1 - G. T. Karber

Image
 I enjoy puzzles of many different varieties. I had not heard of 'Murdle' before this but essentially this is a combination of the game of Clue and a Sherlock Holmes micro story. With suspects, possible murder weapons, potential locations, and/or motives plus some very brief hints, readers are meant to combine the logic of what's know with deductive reasoning to identify the killer (or killers?) in 100 different mystery word puzzles. I will admit right off the bat that I did not do all 100.  I didn't even do half of these, but I did so some random sampling through all the categories (Elementary, Occult Medium, Hard Boiled, and Impossible). I did not get any correct in the Impossible category (of course not ... they were impossible!) and only one correct in the Hard Boiled (of five). The Elementary puzzles were, as expected, pretty easy and the Hard Boiled only a little bit more difficult. Each mini mystery comes with a grid printed in the book to help the reader-detecti
Read more

VINYL RESTING PLACE - Olivia Blacke

Image
 Juni Jessup and her two sister, Tansy and Maggie, have gone into business together in their hometown of Cedar River, Texas, opening a combination record store and coffee shop. Vinyl LPs are making a comeback after all, despite critics thinking the medium was dead.  But speaking of 'dead' ... finding a dead body in the supply closet just as they are looking to have a grand opening is not part of the plan.  Juni's life gets more complicated when their uncle, Calvin, already a suspect in the murder, disappears. And the police officer leading the investigation is Juni's EX-boyfriend (who passive-aggressively keeps putting himself back into her life). Convinced that her uncle would never murder anyone, Juni sets out to prove his innocence - which isn't easy since he's making himself look guilty - because Calvin is family and family is EVERYthing to Juni. As readers of my blog know, I'm not a big fan of most cozy mysteries, but the setting caught my eye and my in
Read more

THE RAVEN THIEF - Gigi Pandian

Image
 With Tempest Raj now a member of the company, Secret Staircase Construction (a company who, as their title suggests, builds mystery-themed, secret rooms inside homes) has finished their first job. Their client now wants to celebrate to kick off her new beginning - new home and new life now that she's divorced from her cheating ex-husband, famous mystery author Corbin Colt. First up, a mock séance to remove any trace of Corbin from the property, led by Tempest's friend, Sanjay.   But during that séance, while all those gathered sat in a dark room holding hands, Corbin's dead body crashes the party, falling across the table in front of everyone. There were eight people in the room, and they were all holding hands, but all the evidence points to one of them being the murderer.  Suspicions point to Ash, Tempest's grandfather, because he was the only one with Corbin's blood on him. Of course, as a doctor, he was also the only one who checked on the body - wherein he acq
Read more