'Before there was James Bond, there was Gregory Sallust.'Tina Rosenberg, Salon.com
Dennis Wheatley's complete, bestselling Gregory Sallust series featuring the debonair spy Gregory Sallust, a forerunner to Ian Fleming's James Bond.
During WWII, Dennis Wheatley was hired by Winston Churchill to be a part of a highly confidential group of strategists. He was one of the only civilians to be recruited, on the strength that he had shown a flair for deception and cover stories in his novels, particularly through his incarnation of Gregory Sallust - widely regarded as the inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond. This complete collection includes the following titles in chronological order of events as they occur within the novels:
CONTRABAND
THE SCARLET IMPOSTOR
FAKED PASSPORT
THE BLACK BARONESS
V FOR VENGEANCE
COME INTO MY PARLOUR
TRAITORS' GATE
THEY USED DARK FORCES
THE ISLAND WHERE TIME STANDS STILL
BLACK AUGUST
THE WHITE WITCH OF THE SOUTH SEAS