Review: Legal assassin
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 19, 2012
"By re-publishing this, his first novel, in a special 60th anniversary edition, we hope to re-kindle (pun-intended!) some interest in this fascinating author, provide his admirers the opportunity of possessing his novels that are no longer in print, and of course introduce his work to a generation of new readers," according to the editors of this 2011 publication.Fascinating is the right word to describe this author, whose real name was Shaun Lloyd McCarthy.Still an undergraduate in English Literature at Oxford University, Cory brought out this his first thriller novel to introduce the spy-novel reading world to Johnny Fedora, a debonair half-Irish, half-Spanish assassin.Fifteen more novels in the Fedora series followed, to wide acclaim, including one book, Deadfall, being eventually made into a movie starring Michael Caine, for which I will need to search as a DVD.While not all that young, this reviewer is part of that new generation of readers now presented with the chance to read this author's eBook titles. It is indeed "a classic from the golden age of detective novels" that has a retro charm that keeps the pages scrolling on my Kindle reader. I personally really enjoyed it.