Talk:John Craig (fictional agent)
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| I wrote 100% of this article at Wikipedia. I intend to expand it. Hayford Peirce 15:25, 3 September 2007 (CDT) | |
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Notes for expanding the article -- just getting started
The Man, page 7: "His voice changed to a parody of a half-educated, middle-class woman's, mellow with self-esteem, firm with ignorance."
page 62 -- "It'll probably turn out to be Grierson having a randy night out and too shy to tell us about it."
- Not COL Grierson of the Buffalo Soldiers? Howard C. Berkowitz 23:30, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
- Captain Grierson, I think, toughest man in Loomis's stable until Craig comes along.... Hayford Peirce 23:40, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
- Philip Grierson, 37, "ex-Marine Commando captain, an excellent pistol shot, and a man of quick and resourceful wit." Page 63. Hayford Peirce 23:54, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
- Department K of MI-6. Page 101. Hayford Peirce 00:16, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
- You've sometimes asked about plausibility of weapons and such. I can't say with certainty for MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service), but MI5 practice had been to designate its departments alphabetically from A, rather than mnemonically. "K" would sound high. Howard C. Berkowitz 00:23, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
- I think the author is just winging it. Earlier in the book he has a bad guy shoot someone with a silencer on a *revolver* -- I was gonna ask you about that, just to make sure. Hayford Peirce 01:22, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
To how many levels does this go?
Does one need a fictional agent agent to represent a book, of this genre, to the publisher? What if the (intelligence/security) agent character had a cover identity as a literary agent? Would the representation then need to be by a fictional agent agent agent, or fictional agent fictional agent agent? Howard C. Berkowitz 23:29, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
- Well, I suppose that you could ask, not me, or John Craig, but John Brock, who is, of course, in his *other* life, a mild-mannered advertising agent.... Hayford Peirce 23:34, 13 June 2009 (UTC)