The Spy in the Ointment
NY: Random House, 1966. Hardcover_boards. 5.75"x8.5" 207 pp. BCE in Brodart mylar. Granny Smith Apple green boards w/light blue lines and letters on spine. Top Stain. DJ design by Martin Pickwick. Author photo credit: Fred Ainsworth. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, and unmarked. Light soiling & small nicks to DJ. Used - VeryGood / VeryGood. Item #13551
The three-time Edgar Award–winning Grand Master of Mystery serves up a dangerous case of mistaken identity in “the best spy comedy I have ever read” (The New York Times).
J. Eugene Raxford is not what anyone would call a debonair man of action. He has no class, no skills, and all the physical prowess of a napping tree sloth. James Bond would think twice before letting him park the Aston Martin.
Though he is a devoted pacifist, Raxford is also—thanks to a tragically consequential typo—the supposed leader of a half-baked and violent radical organization. That’s why the FBI wants him to go undercover and spy on the consortium of real-life terrorists and deadly assassins.
Now, with the help of his girlfriend—who is even more clueless than h... Source: Publisher.
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