James Leasor's Dr Jason Love novels

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• Charmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent

  February 2014

  I haven't read them but they made a fun film version of one, called 'Where the Spies Are', with David Niven back in the sixties - in the same vein as The Liquidator, Carry On Spying and other slightly comedic spy films that pretty well jumped on the Bondwagon.
  
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059905/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

  "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
• Barbel ScotlandPosts: 37,863Chief of Staff

  February 2014

  I read and enjoyed them in the 70s- recommended!
• Silhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent

  October 2015

  Anyone else read these?
  
  What would his Bond continuations have been like I wonder, if he had accepted the gig?

  "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
• Silhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent

  May 2016 edited May 2016

  I'm currently buying up all of the Dr Jason Love spy novels.
  
  I'm very interested in how James Leasor was asked to be the first James Bond continuation author before Kingsley Amis and Geoffrey Jenkins, on the strength of his successful Dr Jason Love spy novel series (one of which was filmed).
  
  Does anyone know anything more about this besides the scant information that is available about this online which comes from his obituary in The Times in 2007?
  
  If so, I'd love to hear from you. -{

  "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
• Silhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent

  May 2016

  stag wrote:

  Muston wrote:

  Have found out that author James Leasor was originally asked to write the first continuation Bond novel after Fleming's death but turned it down. He has written 10 Dr Jason Love (Bond-style) novels and I'm thinking of giving them a go. Anyone read these books and if so what did you think?

  
  CoolHandBond should be able to answer your questions. He has a great thread running about spy novels. Check it out if you haven't already as it's a great read.

  
  Seconded. -{

  "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
• CoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,216MI6 Agent

  May 2016

  I don't know much about James Leasor I'm sorry to say but I did cover the Jason Love series in the Spy Guide thread. I also didn't know that he had been contacted about writing the Bond series so I have learnt something there

  Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
• Barbel ScotlandPosts: 37,863Chief of Staff

  May 2016

  ...and the first novel was filmed, as SM mentioned, starring David Niven:
  
  
  
  
  
  by much the same people as CR67 (Val Guest, Wolf Mankowitz, etc).