The most modern hero in years... He's hip, he's hard, he likes birds, and, sometimes, marijuana... Philip McAlpine 'The latest instant hero of fiction. He is the contemporary Bond...McAlpine is a Secret Service agent, too. He also has the same obsessive interest in sex. But about there they part company... The Dolly Dolly Spy - There is any amount of violence and almost everybody is threatened with torture or rape or both...very efficient, not too jagged and extremely easy to read.