Book Trailer for Markham's ASSASSIN OF SECRETS (VIDEO)

Q. R. Markham made international headlines this week when his debut spy novel, ASSASSIN OF SECRETS, was pulled from shelves by Mulholland Books amid plagiarism accusations.

"It looks to me like pretty much every sentence was taken from somewhere," writes Jeremy Duns, who had previously blurbed the book and failed to catch the numerous similarities between ASSASSIN OF SECRETS and dozens of James Bond novels (amongst other sources).

For more on the scandal, see The Guardian's piece, "James Bond's words live twice."

Comments

[Tiffany Reisz]

What? No Daniel Craig? If you're going to rip off Bond, at least throw some Craig in there...for the ladies.

[Hugh @Catalog Printing]

Extreme plagiarism? James Bond Novels? Poor thing. So, they will stop publishing the book now?

[Andrew Shaffer]

@Tiffany - No Daniel Craig because, well, you don't rip off Daniel Craig and live to tell the tale.

[Andrew Shaffer]

@Hugh - The book is being pulled from the shelves as we speak. Which, if it's as good as the early reviews for it were, is a shame almost...

[NJape]

What a ridiculous trailer (as are many). Plagiarism aside, how can the book industry be so daft, superficial, cheesy, artless, coarse, bloated, trash-caressing? I mean, good works of fiction are real REFUGES.