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Black ops Heroes, Hard to Protect, Ian Fleming, Incy Black, James Bond, New book, Rudyard Kipling, Spies, writing
Spies, no condoms by Incy Black
Nil illegitimi carborundum – don’t let the bastards grind you down. The bastards being anyone in authority worshiping the god of ‘red tape’, about whom I personally harbour deep-seated suspicions.
Which probably accounts for my thrill of a good conspiracy—lardy-arsed officialdom, the villain—and my cheering on of the men and woman who thumb their nose at the ‘rules’ but being smart, swallow their resounding ‘fuck off’ behind a grin—smiling crocodiles, if you like.
Hence my love affair with spies, spooks and secrets. The corruption of loyalties, the lies and deceptions, and the down right rude. Evident in one of my favorite quotes from Hard to Protect: “You stick your head any further up Butters’s arse, Berwick, and no one will be able to hear you singing Rule Britannia.” Angel, the heroine, is giving the hero a right gobful, at this point.
Whitehall and the British Intelligence Service, clashing head on, the perfect arena where the bad boys (and girls) get to behave outrageously, all respect for pretty much anything but ‘the win’ withheld. Insubordination and insolence paving the way. Must be why they call espionage ‘The Game’ because it’s fun and in it’s own way, heroic.
And who is responsible for distorting my view of what is mischievous?
Why Rudyard Kipling (Kim) and Ian Fleming (James Bond), of course. Both recognized the excitement of ‘finding trouble’, who cares that neither is now politically correct. The romance of bad boys is that they are virile, sexy, unapologetic, and defiant as all hell.
Bond with his fast cars, his smoking, gambling and drinking—dry martinis, shaken not stirred. His womanizing—not a condom in sight. The sanctioned killings—the bodies of opponents piled high. All for queen and country? My arse.
It takes a special kind of damaged to kill. A fierce addiction to adrenaline to put yourself in a position of doing so. And that in itself is fascinating.
Spooks and assassins, on the side of good or nefarious, like—or is it a need—to live as large as their stories. And long may they and their thrills clutter our pages, for they are the dash of colour in the Establishment’s grey.
BLURB:
Some Black Op missions are too dark—even for him.
Volcanic hot and ambitious Special Agent Will Berwick doesn’t give a damn what his orders are, he’s not taking the enemy—the lovely, but arctic Dr. Angel Treherne—to bed. Nor will she die on his watch, most certainly not by his hand. Oh, he’ll root out her secrets. But his own way—teaching her a much-deserved lesson while he’s at it: that no one messes with his career plan just because they’re a little peeved with him.
Caught up in a tangled web of deceit and betrayal, psychotherapist Angel trusts no one—certainly not alpha-cocky, cunning Will Berwick. First he’s hostile, then he’s charming, now he wants to protect her? Why? What’s he hiding? With her life—and heart—on the line, she needs to know.
With the risks high and personal, can Will and Angel agree the dangerous choices they must make?
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We must be cyclic Shey as I am in the middle of drafting a James Bond’ish post. I think your dudes have taken world domination to a new level by hypnotising us to produce similar posts. 🙂 ❤
HEE HEE Ralpha it is their secret weapon!! I am gonna do stuff on the Flemings cos Ian Fleming’s father worked in Dundee. There’s still housing here he granted to the workers and they lived both in Dundee and Newport-On-Tay so we are well on the secret agent trail! Great tos ee you and looking forward to your post too now with the cats.
Ian Fleming’s father seems to be quite a character and publishing a post on him should be an interesting read. Are there hamsters involved ?
But of course they will. They will run me off the park.. x
Sounds deliciously exciting, Incy. And dudes, you did a great job of adding spice and intrigue. Shey, the dudes were especially entertaining today. I scrolled back up and read a second time! Hats off to all of you, and hugs all around 🙂 ♥
P.S. Thank you, dudes, for mentioning your fabulous post on my blog! xoxoxo
Oh we will be blogging it soon xxxxxxxxxxxx Les dudes
Looking forward to it, my dude friends ♥
Yeah… We will. We won’t let Shey stop us. x
What was exciting (and no small relief) Tina, was surviving my hamstering.
I hear you, Incy, and you did a fantastic job despite fearing for your survival! 🙂
She’s tough is our Ince x
Aw that is so kind Tina. They wanted to do their best for Incy or face the consequences!!!!!!!
Well they certainly shined! 🙂
I ain’t telling them. They are bad enough xxxxxxxx
This was so much fun to read, great presentation, Shehanne! The book sounds great, too, love the way Incy thinks, I hear myself in her words lol
Janni, if we share a like-mind, heaven help the world. Bring forth the revolution. Let the hamsters lead the way.
Lol, love it!
Ah Janni, Ince is a darling. She is one of my spesh writer buddies cos of the way she thinks!. I am halfway through her book and loving it. I was hoping to finish and post a review but I just didn’t get time BUT I will get a review for her. The dudes can chew it over.
❤️❤️❤️
xx Janni.
That such hamster insanity brings forth such fine interviews a masterpiece of the way promotion should be i.e. interesting and informative. Best of luck with your book Incy Black.
Thank you, Mike. (Not sure Shehanne will condone you using insanity and hamster in the same sentence, though. On her planet hamsters are guru gods. Not an disrupted brain in sight.)
Very true…keep up the espionage, a genre I am rather keen on.
That’s ok Ince, the dudes are used to Mike saying they are insane. Of course they say it is me who is, so we are all good. Great to see Mike x
Insane is good…it’s the only thing that keeps me sane.
Oh me too.
Oh wow, licensed to thrill! Fab post. Love seeing the dudes go toe to toe with Incy Black but I’m afraid hot-stuff Bobby Bub will have to up his game when Incy’s Will Berwick hits town. Thanks to all for starting my day with a giggle.
Morning Kate, you here to cause trouble again? Rile the hamster dudes–you guys would win, yes, you would–and who knows who will fall out your wardrobe…in the dark! Covert little buggers, the hamsters.
Now I’m scaaaaared!
Hell Kate, this is Bobby Bub, mah green hat beats anything that them there Will Berwick got to offer. And the ladies just swoon at the sight of mah gingerbread house. (I bets you thought ah wis about tah say something else.)
Love Bobby B
I’m swooning, Hot-Hat Bobby Bub, I’m swooning right this minute. xxxxxxxx
Ah hopes yah will pardon me foah wearin’ mah hat. I mean ah is a modest kinda dude…
Love Bobby B
Reblogged this on Incy Black and commented:
Brave of the hamster dudes to host me.
Will get over to comment in a mo my darling. xxxxxxx
Someone ought to write Hamsters of Solace, or maybe Goldhamster. Just a random thought. I like your posts, Shey. This was another one that made me forget I’m meant to be working, for a while.
I LOVE Hamsters of Solcce. Yes. They may pinch that for when I do my spy post, Goldhmaster is brill. The posts are only ever as good as the guests being up for a bit of daftness. Gld you had a break and thank you for your lovely comment xxxx
From Hamsters with Love, George
Yeah… Brill x
We could also have From Russia with Hamsters. Hamsters only live twice. The hamster who loved me. Yeah.
Brilliant post and laughing as always, phew, bet they were glad it wasn’t wincy spider! The book sounds like a rollercoaster addictive read!
I am half through and loving it. Glad you got a laugh. The dudes were and old hands with Ince xxx
Shey, the dudes are the only entities that make me nervous as to what will come out of their mouths next…and I’m usually up for anything! Thank you for allowing me to engage with the hamsters. Do warn them I’ve threatened to come north this summer. I owe them a drink (or ten). x
My characters do that all the time. I never know what is gonna come out their gubs so the dudes are par for the course. You better come north in the summer. We will give them that drink and ten xxx
A splendid interview by the dudes, Shey. Hats off to them. Happy Friday.
Happy Friday Robbie. Hope yours isn’t as wet as ours. Lovely to see you xxxx
LOL, ‘Naff off’ I laughed my ass off at some these comments here, and the ‘army haircut’, these dudes are clever. Do you hear me guys, you’re SO CLEVER. And the book sounded riveting, even before the dudes put their spin on it. 🙂 ❤ xo (Does this pull me down below public enemy #4?) Bwaaaaaaaaaaaawawa
As they ranted, raged and savaged their way through the daily dude meeting, I said hamster enemy 25, They said 6…. Gimme a another go at it x
Yay thanks for fighting for me Shey. I guess 6 is better than 2. A couple more visits and compliments for me, there may be hope I’ll be back on their good side. Is there even a good side? LOLLLLLL 🙂 xoxo
ah just got yah up to 15 xxxxx
I can’t wait to learn more about Fleming and Glencoe! Lovely to see the dudes are back and safe…oh, and you, too, Shey. 😉
(Hey, I know who wields the bat over there. 😉 You news about the ARC is also very exciting. You’re going to survive this month yet, Dear One! xxxxxx
I am. I am. I even have a promise of a pre-order link. That means I can start showing off things like my cover and book trailer etc. I will still be doing that post. the Flemings had a big association with Dundee and Newport-On-Tay. and that is wehre I have set the modern bit of the book. Also James Bond’s father wasn’t just from Glencoe for nowt. They also had a big association there xxxxxx Lovely Jean
Wowzers! I just asked Bo, who read Fleming’s bio years ago. He recalls reading about Glencoe, but not Dundee or Newport-On-Tay. You’ve got him intrigued now. 😉 Oh,and he just told me that it was Connery who inspired Fleming to say James Bond was born Scottish–he just dug Connery in the role that much. 🙂 And now Bo said not to quote him about that Connery bit.
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Good thing I didn’t use quotation marks. 😉
ANYway, very exciting, you! Can’t wait for that trailer, O Lovely Lady Shey! xxxxxxxxxx
I sent you the link on facebook. it ‘s a bit about the family. Fleming’s father was born in Newport In Tay. and there are streets in Dundee named Fleming gardens that his grandfather bought for the workers. I couldn’t resist having set small bits in Dundee and Newport where I have lived, calling the hero’s son Fleming. xxx
Dudes are entertaining as always.
I like everything spy 🙂 Have seen all the Bond movies. Best of luck, Incy Black! 🙂
so many diff Bonds. There’s a quietly immortal character that way. Inese, xxxxxxxx for coming by when you have other things doing just now and thank you for supporting Ince. We used to keep each other going years back when we were trying to get out there and we still run everything past one another xxx
You both are doing great. And you have the Dudes xxxx
indeed I do xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
My daughter’s hamster just eloped with another hamster. Yes I know I should have told that it died but that’s a can of worms that needn’t be opened for another few years. Hamster Royale?
Ha ha. yeah or Casino hamster… Yep. Hamsters don’t live long. You did the right thing xxxxx
Cover yar ears dude..s… Oops, too late! 😁
We don’t know bad words like crocodile and all
Love the dudes
Lol!
hi there shehanne 🙂 how have u been ..I have been so busy off lately. following up all ur posts now .. got quite a lot to read.. xoxo
Lol… I have been cutting back too!!! xxx Lovely to see you. Hope you have been good. Not seen you much lately xxxxx
yes yes..
Anyway, good to see you Kiss Kiss
Wishing Incy all the best with the book! Love that book cover! Creative interview as always in hamster central, Shey 😉
Probably madness and mayhem as usual. Lovely to see you my darling Christy. That book cover is hot. I hope you have had a nice weekend x
This book looks like a lot of fun. I enjoyed the blurb and the hamsters as usual. I like the color choice on the book cover – cool green 😎 Best wishes and congrats on the new book!
Thanks for wishing Ince well. We’ve been pals for years. We used to virtually hold one another’s hands on querying etc. It’s great she has another book out there and I more than half way through and loving it.
🙂
So many titles – so little time.😘
Hee hee. Tell me about it. I was hoping to have this one finished and do a review but I can post that another time
I know, I wish I could read faster!😘
Oh same here. I wish I could glance at a page and yep it’s read!
so Ian Fleming lived in Dundee!! and thanks for the lovely bad boys pics – plus your insane hamsters on her majesty’s secret service! I’ve been off for a bit so will take me some time to catch up with all.
I saw you had been away but lovely to see you back with that beautiful blog. Glad to see you back too. Ian Fleming’s grandfather lived in Dundee and his father was born in Newport-On-Tay which is just across the river. I will be getting to that post asap xxxxxxxxx
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That was very exciting
Thank you for great presentation
Kisses
hugs my darling Anita. LOVELY to see you. Happy week xxxx
Same to you dear
kisses
Aw thank you my darling xxxxxxxxx
I know, I know. You all thought I had died in that car crash. Well, I’m still alive, just not as able to dilly dally on my computer as much as I would like. However, I’m determined to be BACK, and part of that is due to Incy Black and HARD TO PROTECT. I just read it, and it was SO good that I can’t stop thinking about it. A fantastic story, so chock full of excitement of every kind (I will refrain from details so I don’t upset the Hamsters), and every page brings a new surprise. Thanks for a great post Shey, and congratulations Incy. xx
Noelle, where you bin girl? We all missed yah here. The dudes espesh seeing as you have your own special place on their dartboard. Don’t you go upsetting them dudes worse. I am nearly finished Ince’s book. I would have had it read had I not landed the final proofs on W and R. BUT I will get there asap. xxxxx
Aww it is such a wonderful read. I think I have told you earlier also that the dudes make this read interesting every time. I just adore them every time and a fabulous read like always .Much love❤❤❤❤
Much love Purva. Incy is a special writer pal. Has been for years, so the dudes were out in force for her. Lovely to see you xxx
Pleasure is always mine❤
Love yah xxxxxx
Heck of a cover and enticing storyline. Congrats to Incy and sending a truckload of well wishes to you both on your new releases.
Anne my darling , thank you. Ince and I have been palz for a long time. We used to soldier together in the ranks of the unpublished so it was great to see her here today. And lovely to see you too. Thank you for your good wishes. (WE won’t tell the dudes)