Agent Palmer

Nuclear proliferation within the Spy genre isn’t anything new, but that doesn’t make Thomas Caplan’s The Spy Who Jumped Off the Screen any less unique, because it is.

I had not read Young Adult fiction for a very long time, before Cadets showed up in the mail, as a gift from author Edward Miller. It wasn’t that I have anything against YA fiction, it’s just that I don’t tend to think of myself as a young adult anymore, though I don’t really think of myself as a grown up either, even with the responsibilities of homeownership and a career.

Taking place after the events of the Avengers in Hell’s Kitchen, and timed almost to perfection by Marvel Studios, is the introduction of Daredevil into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Horse Under Water was the second book published by author Len Deighton, the first being his spy novel debut with “The IPCRESS File.” It continued, what would become a, series of four novels about an unnamed spy or secret agent, who in the film adaptations was named Harry Palmer and portrayed by Michael Caine.

I just finished reading The Kronos Interference by Edward Miller and J.B. Manas and it was great!

The cover touts it as “Crichton meets Hitchcock,” and it lives up to that billing and them sum. It is a fantastical look at time travel, and its implications, while weaving a plot of intrigue that is at times scary and scientifically brilliant, while creating amazing historical anomalies.