{"id":17598,"date":"2022-12-06T19:15:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T00:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17598"},"modified":"2022-12-06T19:15:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T00:15:43","slug":"kiss-my-assassin-by-dave-sinclair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17598","title":{"rendered":"‘Kiss My Assassin’ by Dave Sinclair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The blurb says,<\/strong> \u201cYou\u2019ve never met a spy like this before!\u201d<\/em> That\u2019s false advertising. Charles Bishop, hero of Kiss My Assassin<\/a><\/em> (apologies for the title), is almost indistinguishable from James Bond. He does the same job, has the same way with women, and gets into the same kind of scrapes as Bond (at least the movie Bond). I suppose the author\u2019s attempts at witty dialogue are intended to make the atmosphere a little lighter than a Bond story, but I didn\u2019t find the wit very sharp, myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the Turkish ambassador to Great Britain is arrested on Westminster Bridge after a naked male body flies out of his car trunk, Bishop is sent to talk to him at his residence (diplomatic complications have delayed his being detained by police). The ambassador tells Bishop that it doesn\u2019t matter what he does \u2013 he\u2019s going to be dead by the end of the day. He says he got an opportunity to participate in a highly secret illegal arms auction, but since the dead man, the sellers’ agent, died \u2013 accidentally \u2013 the arms brokers, who are not understanding sorts, will certainly kill him and his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fireworks ensue, and soon Bishop is off to Marrakech, where he meets a seductive woman and a brutish Russian agent, who turns into an unlikely ally. In the honored tradition of movie action heroes, Bishop will kill an improbable number of enemy agents, and though he\u2019ll suffer several traumatic injuries, including gunshot wounds, he\u2019ll still drag himself out his hospital bed to give it one more go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve read a lot of improbable action thrillers, so I could have gone happily along for the ride if I\u2019d liked the main character. But I took a dislike to Charles Bishop almost from the start. The dialogue, I think, was meant to be clever, but it didn\u2019t amuse me. An attempt at one point to make Bishop sensitive to male sexism struck me as both false and a little prissy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The writing isn\u2019t awful, but I don\u2019t recommend Kiss My Assassin<\/em>. As you might expect, there was quite a lot of sex, some of it pretty kinky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The blurb says, \u201cYou\u2019ve never met a spy like this before!\u201d That\u2019s false advertising. Charles Bishop, hero of Kiss My Assassin (apologies for the title), is almost indistinguishable from James Bond. He does the same job, has the same way with women, and gets into the same kind of scrapes as Bond (at least the … Continue reading ‘Kiss My Assassin’ by Dave Sinclair<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[4454,4453,4455],"class_list":["post-17598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-charles-bishop","tag-dave-sinclair","tag-kiss-my-assassin"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17599,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17598\/revisions\/17599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}