Name: The Dolly, Dolly Spy!
Author: Adam Diment

The Dolly, Dolly Spy! -- the first of four novels about “bird-chasing, hash-loving” young British spy Philip McAlpine. . . '(....) Some books by a British writer called Adam Diment. They’d been written back in the mid- to late-1960s and they featured a posh, dope-smoking, babe-shagging, terminally fashionable young spy called Philip McAlpine.'(...) After he published his first book, The Dolly Dolly Spy, in 1967, Diment was very briefly very hot. The London Sunday Times told its readers that “Adam Diment is 23; his hero, Philip McAlpine, is based on himself. That is to say he’s tall, good-looking, with a taste for fast cars, planes, girls, and pot.” The following year, like the Beatles, Diment hit the hippy trail to India where he studied at an ashram. By 1971 he was living in Rome. After that: nothing. But I am getting ahead of myself ... Desperate for something, anything to get me out of my unproductive rut, I trawled the Internet for Diment’s books. And the first thing I discovered was that he gave great title. The Dolly Dolly Spy was followed by The Bang Bang Birds (1968), The Great Spy Race (1968), and Think Inc. (1971). Something about those names took me right back to the London of my childhood, and the covers were more outrageous and evocative still. The Dolly Dolly Spy’s jacket is, like Philip McAlpine himself, a neat combination of James Bond (blood, bullet holes, and a blonde in a bikini) and the counterculture (a block of hash resin, a razor blade, and two smoked joints). But the cover of The Bang Bang Birds (shown at left) is entirely original. It features a chorus-line of machine-gun-toting girls, naked except for knee-length boots, drawn as a psychedelic cartoon.' ==== http://therapsheet.blogspot.com/2009/10/book-you-have-to-read-dolly-dolly-spy.html?m=1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Diment http://www.sixtiescity.com/Mbeat/mbfilms21.html https://glorioustrash.blogspot.com/2011/02/dolly-dolly-spy.html?m=1 http://glorioustrash.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-great-spy-race-philip-mcalpine-2.html?m=1 https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2012/01/adam-diment.html?m=1

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