espionage fiction

June 1955, issue No. 12

Karin Dor as SPECTRE agent no. 11, Helga Brandt in You Only Live Twice

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1968 Pocket mass market, 1st print

cover art by Roger Kastel

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not the same Parker who wrote the Spenser books, though this one was a Robert B (for Bogardus) Parker, too

1951 Rinehart hardcover, this the 1952 Dell softcover released the next near

cover art by Robert Stanley

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Famke Janssen as Russian agent Xenia Onatopp

Goldeneye, 1995

poster art by John Alvin

an A- movie adaptation of an A++ novel by Trevanian

Patrick McGoohan as John Drake, “Secret Agent” in the US, “Danger Man” in the UK