A Tank of Sacred Eels — Ivor Drummond

Drug traffickers in Morocco must be eliminated and Lady Jennifer Norrington, along with her compatriots, is once again involved in dangerous work. At the same time, she falls for a young German who is in Morocco to set up a business venture that will make him very rich indeed. He has good looks, brains and everything about him transfixes her. From the back alleys of Morocco the story moves to London, France and then Kenya, with murder and mayhem always present. There is a heart-stopping climax involving treachery, racing cars and murderous light aircraft, with the macabre episode of the sacred eels being only one episode in this thrilling title, whose author has been described as the true heir to Bond.

The Author: Roger Longrigg was a British author of unusual versatility who wrote both novels and non-fiction, along with plays and screenplays for television, under both his own name and eight other pseudonyms.

Born in Edinburgh into a military family, he was at first schooled in the Middle East, but returned to England as a youth and later read history at Magdalen College, Oxford. His early career took him into advertising, but after the publication of two comic novels took up writing full time in 1959.

He completed fifty five books, many under his own name, but also Scottish historical fiction as Laura Black; thrillers as Ivor Drummond (for which his chief character, Lady Jennifer Norrington was named by HRF Keating in The Times as ‘The true heir of James Bond'); black comedies as Domini Taylor; Frank Parish (which titles feature the adventures of Dan Mallett, a poacher who lives on the edges of legality) - and famously Rosalind Erskine â€" a name with which he hoaxed all for several years, and who appeared to write a disguised biography of what life was like in a girls boarding school where the classmates ran a brothel for boys from a nearby school. Erskine's ‘The Passion Flower Hotel' became a bestseller and was later filmed.

Roger Longrigg's work in television included ‘Mother Love', a BBC mini-series starring Diana Rigg and David McCallum, and episodes of ‘Crown Court' and ‘Dial M for Murder'.

He died in 2000, aged 70 and was survived by his wife, the novelist Jane Chichester, and three daughters.

‘The true heir of James Bond' â€" HRF Keating, The Times