- Paperback: 228 pages
- Publisher: YouWriteOn.com (8 Dec 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1849230536
- ISBN-13: 978-1849230537
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,538,989 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An experienced agent has been captured and faces the grim prospect of interrogation. British Intelligence must prevent this at all costs.
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This book describes the bizarre adventures of a group of amateur spies recruited for a secret mission to Tyrnia. They are led by Jason, a pen pusher at the spy agency whose idea it was to use amateurs alongside one professional spy, but who never expected to be sent on the mission himself. They seem a most unlikely crew, but as their journey in the little bus unfolds their various strengths are revealed. The story is told with an unusual mix of humour and humanity. It is as much about the characters as their mission, and there are surprises in both. Don't be fooled by the cover - this is not a book for children: it touches on some adult emotions as the group are faced a series of challenges. The story is highly original. Recommended for readers who want something a little different from the usual predictable fare.
Well known and much admired for his short plays, Bob Adams has brought the same humour and character to his first short novel. I thoroughly enjoyed this tall tale about a busload of carefully selected misfits who chug their way to an adventure holiday with a difference. The bus has its own important part to play in this adventure - it may not be your usual spy transport but then these are not your usual spies. They all have a plan.............just not the same plan! But unwittingly and undaunted our misfits rise to each challenge and we find that somehow they fit together rather well.
This is Joyce's other half (Jim) writing.This book is deceptive. It seems at one level to be a spy story, and at the same time it is satirically delicious. It sounds as if the writer is well acquainted with the absurdities of the Security services, the breathtaking incompetence of bureaucracy, the human cost(at the same time), and the way thrills and comic entanglements are intermixed. For me,the one-liners and the linguistic devices deployed by the writer are the heart of the story. Romance isn't neglectd either. It isn't a spy story a la Graham Greene or Ian Feming, but it is written uniquely on its own terms - - - and a good thing too.
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