V for Vengeance

''Before there was James Bond, there was Gregory Sallust.'' Tina Rosenberg, Salon.com
V for Vengeance is the fifth in Dennis Wheatley''s bestselling Gregory Sallust series featuring the debonair spy Gregory Sallust, a forerunner to Ian Fleming''s James Bond.

France has fallen to the Nazis, and British secret agent Gregory Sallust is in Vichy, as determined as ever to overthrow the iron rule of the T...