Pretty Sinister Books

We were Christmas shopping last weekend and I saw this new holiday item being shoved onto the consumers. It's a special copper mug inte...

Nick Jones, who writes the Existential Ennui   blog and is one mad book collector I'd like go shopping with if I ever get to the U.K. ag...

1st US paperback (Berkley, Oct 1969) Here's the book in which Jonas Wilde is forced to use a gun instead of his hands to deal with hi...

The second in this series featuring Jonas Wilde, an assassin in the employ of a secret British espionage unit, is just as good as the firs...

It's 1966. Spies were hot -- both in the bookstores and the movie theaters. Matt Helm was a sensation. He had already appeared in ten bo...

Here's a sneak preview for my post on the neglected book I've chosen for Friday's Forgotten Books coming tomorrow. The book was ...