Mallory's Mayhem

“I enjoy the espionage stories of Barthélemy Banks. He obviously knows that clandestine world. His tales about M, a Key West drunk who used to kill people for the Central Intelligence Agency, are among my favorites. Here they are collected into book form for the first time ever. Grab a copy!”
- Byron Rupert McCafferty, editor of Cinematic Classics

Tim Mallory is a “retired” CIA assassin – known to his former colleagues as M. Nowadays he’s a barfly hanging out in Key West, an end-of-the-road town where people like Mallory go to get lost. But it’s hard to run from your past as these 17 tales demonstrate. When you’re trained to kill, it’s easy to do without a blink of the eye. From Cuban mercenaries to his old teammates, Malloy dispatches all comers between frozen drinks at Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville. Cold-blooded, yes. Shaky hands, yes. But a one-time spy who remembers all the tricks of the tradecraft.

Barthélemy Banks is the nom de plume of a former supervisor for a publishing company that was secretly backed by the CIA. He spent a number of years in the Bahamas where he rubbed elbows with spies, smugglers, international bankers, and reclusive millionaires. Today, he lives on a remote island, where he finds it safe to write about the clandestine world he knows so well.