Edited sentence: " This despite a cast of characters named Felicity Arce, Jean-Paul Bidet, and Yurasis Dragon (Your ass is draggin').Even Gore Vidal, no slouch himself in the irony department, accepted the novel as a straight adventure: "An Ian FLeming by-blow, and of its too-numerous kind, pretty good.Though obviously conceived as a broad satire of the Ian Fleming "super-spy" genre (to use Trevanian's own term), The Eiger Sanction was written with such brio that many reviewers took the story at face value