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{{short description|Fictional British secret agent}} {{for|the film segment "Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet"|Make Mine Music}} <!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:Johnnyfedora.jpg|thumbnail|The cover of "Dead Man Falling", written in 1953]] --> '''Johnny Fedora''' is a fictional [[United Kingdom|British]] [[secret agent]] who was the [[protagonist]] of 16 novels published between 1951 and 1971. Written by [[Desmond Cory|Shaun Lloyd McCarthy]], under the pseudonym of [[Desmond Cory]], Fedora was dubbed by literary critics as the 'thinking man's [[James Bond]]'. Preceding Bond, Fedora was also a hired assassin ("hired to kill"), but for many the Fedora plots were more complex and intellectual. The son of a [[Spanish people|Spanish]] father and [[Irish people|Irish]] mother, Fedora was driven as much by a need to [[Revenge|avenge]] the death of his parents (at the hands of Spanish fascists) as by [[patriotism]] or [[loyalty]] to [[British Intelligence]]. He got his start working behind the lines during WWII, assassinating Nazis. The debonair Fedora was always a tough and competent agent, and his first adventures were written in a more light-hearted manner than the latter ones. Like Bond, he had passionate affairs with a wide variety of women around the world (though never as a ruse to gain intelligence), but his relationships tended to be more nuanced, and sometimes spanned several novels. The final books in the series featured his nemesis, [[Feramontov]], a deadly and highly skilled [[Russian people|Russian]] agent, whose ruthlessness went as far as trying to detonate a [[nuclear bomb]] in Spain. 1960's ''The Head'', atypical of the series as a whole, featured Johnny, temporarily without any mission from his handlers, getting involved in a publicity stunt for a film that involved carting a massive statue of Jesus to the top of a high Spanish mountain. ==Novels== #''Secret Ministry'' (1951) #''This Traitor, Death'' (1952) #''Dead Man Falling'' (1953) #''Intrigue'' (1954) #''Height of Day'' (1955) #''High Requiem'' (1956) #''Johnny Goes North'' (1956) #''Johnny Goes East'' (1958) #''Johnny Goes West'' (1959) #''Johnny Goes South'' (1959) #''The Head'' (1960) #''Undertow'' (1962) #''Hammerhead'' (1963) #''Feramontov'' (1966) #''Timelock'' (1967) #''Sunburst'' (1971) ==External links== * [https://johnnyfedora.com/ Johnny Fedora Website] * [http://www.desmondcory.com/Fedora_novels.htm Johnny Fedora Novels] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080624060713/http://www.thrilleruk.fsnet.co.uk/latest.htm A look back at the espionage assignments of Johnny Fedora] Desmond Cory's famous secret agent - published July 2008] [[Category:Fictional spies|Fedora, Johnny]] [[Category:Book series]] {{novel-char-stub}}
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