Passport to Peril by James Leasor.

ALERT! I will sometimes discuss the story.

The second espionage book featuring Dr. Jason Love, Passport to Peril, was released two years later, in 1966.

It is unchangeable strong. The adventure already dives in. I’ve got the delight from the prose. Leasor is elegant in writing, as how he described a car explosion. The British writer makes a breathtaking poetic lettering. He created a fine philosophy to the lead hero with which I wasn’t always acceptable. The author could give a wide personality to a character that appears for a short time or even once. He penetrates with the described of that personage’s background. A pointed minor detail can give a magnificent flashback, as when the protagonist takes a sudden plane and the author brings the experience of the inside. Passport to Peril is intriguing, and it is beautiful when after some time discloses that the venture is a merciless espionage standoff. If there is having a wrong it’s the direct reference to the first book by writing “read it” and repeating some events that happened there. That conversational address was without necessity and indication.

Love draws into a new venture and he has a circumstance that makes him to involve himself into that. It channels Bond, as it looks. The hero has own preferable drink, which is familiar from the first novel (but it is fascinating to read what he had in a past and why changed); some evildoers with physicals flaws; and encounter with the opposite sex. But it is the individual and sophisticated in these comparisons. The leading man who behind of everything doesn’t belong to Fleming’s type. The English author wrote precisely about the worldview of these people. It was incredible how Leasor overplayed with Jason Love involvement into the mission. He amazes in inventive gadgets, which were presented to the protagonist and his reaction about taking them. The charm makes the hero’s unprofessionalism in espionage where he is more reckless in behavior, but can also demonstrate his wit and, personally, it is excellent that sometimes become useful his doctor’s skills.

I sensed Jason Love in danger again since he became dragged into that. James Leasor brings the inner experience and perception of the leading character. You get human from him and anybody else. I adored the personality and espionage view of MacGillivray in the first book, and it continued in Passport to Peril. A couple of moments felt out to be credible were the resolution of one trap that was through the luck with an American tourist. Although the situation isn’t impossible. I can’t accept that Leasor believed the “hypnotizing legend”. Doctor Love saved himself from that man just saying his name and military rank. These things are possible to forgive. I was excited to read the solution the lead character proposes for stopping the villains and what he asks for after that. The conclusion was thrilling, tense and stayed grounded.

The books about Jason Love impressed Ian Fleming’s estate and the publishing house Glidrose Productions, which released James Bond books. Leasor was the first who received an offer from them to continue writing after Ian Fleming. He refused. I am not sure, but I have a feeling to believe it was written by his son on some espionage website talking that the author declined because it would be disrespectful to Fleming, and he considered that only an original author decides with his works. I can only add that it wasn’t polite to ask a top-notch author to continue the pulp.