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    Into the Volcano: A Mallory and Morse Novel of Espionage
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    Into the Volcano: A Mallory and Morse Novel of Espionage

    By Forrest DeVoe, Jr.

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    The year is 1962. John Glenn is in orbit, Audrey Hepburn is breakfasting outside Tiffany's, Elvis is recording "Bossa Nova Baby," and in Istanbul, a middle-aged Dutch spy has just met a fiery death. Enter Jack Mallory and Laura Morse, clandestine operatives for the Consultancy. He's a laconic ex-soldier from the oil fields of Corpus Christi; she's a wintrily beautiful Boston Brahmin and an adept at Floating Hand karate. The murdered man was their colleague, and the Consultancy has ordered them to exact revenge on the genially murderous Piotr Nemerov and the playboy-turned-arms-dealer Anton Rauth, who is holed up in his HQ in an extinct South Seas volcano preparing for a literally earthshaking confrontation.

    Into the Volcano is an homage to James Bond, Modesty Blaise, and the golden age of the spy thriller, a time when America was still innocent and its enemies possessed a dash of Space Age style. It takes the reader from New York to Istanbul, from Cannes' balmy breezes to the island known as the Dragon's Throne, and at last into the molten heart of the Cold War.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061842887
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    Into the Volcano: A Mallory and Morse Novel of Espionage
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    Forrest DeVoe, Jr.

    Forrest DeVoe Jr. is the pen name of Max Phillips. In addition to cofounding the pulp revival imprint Hard Case Crime, he has authored one of its debut titles, Fade to Blonde, as well as the literary novels The Artist's Wife and Snakebite Sonnet. He is married and lives in New York City.

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      Into the Volcano is a spy novel set in 1962, but it is the 1962 of the James Bond movies, where the spies are cooler, the women more beautiful, and the villains really do use hollowed-out volcanoes for their nefarious plans. Clearly the author wanted to write a "serious" spy story in this not-quite-so-serious timeframe and culture and he succeeded quite well. Jack Mallory and Laura Morse (the hero and heroine, partners working for a private spy agency) are both "cool", each in their own way. I'm looking forward to seeing how their relationship develops in succeeding stories. If you enjoy the early Bond movies, or perhaps the Matt Helm books, then you should enjoy Into the Volcano; if you are expecting Quiller or John LeCarre, you will disappointed.