Who Dares Wins
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| Title: | Who Dares Wins | |
| Publisher: | Friends Will Be Friends Press | |
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| Author(s): | Sharon F. | |
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| Date(s): | 1994 | |
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| Genre: | slash | |
| Fandom: | The Professionals, The Final Option, Codename: Wildgeese, Intrigue, Ladder of Swords and Cassidy | |
| Language: | English | |
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Who Dares Wins is a slash novel by Sharon F. It is a same-actor crossover with characters drawn from several movies that also featured the actor Lewis Collins (who played "Bodie") and Martin Shaw (who played "Ray Doyle") in the Professionals. It was the winner of a 1995 STIFfie Award.
Characters: Bodie, his 1/2 brother Peter Skellon (a character from the movie "The Final Option" or "Who Dares Wins"), his cousin Robin Wesley (a character from the movie: "Codename: Wildgeese").
Doyle and his--non-related as far as they can figure--look-alike Nilolai Rozhkov (a character from the movie "Intrigue"), his brother Sean Doyle who has used the alias Don DeMarco (from the movie "Ladder of Swords") and his cousin James Griffin (from the movie "Cassidy")
The story revolves around a broken Robin Wesley coming to his cousins for help in capturing Rozhkov, who it turns out he is in love with. Doyle goes along for the ride.
Reactions and Reviews
Well, this one was certainly *memorable*. The premise is rather extreme. Basically, the author took every character Lewis Collins and Martin Shaw had ever played (including the actors themselves!) and wrote them into one big Bodie/Doyle-CI5-Universe story, where various Doyle and Bodie look-alikes are running around, many of them family, but some not. An amazing premise, but since I'm not familiar with the acting work of Collins and Shaw, and have seen little of the actual series 'The Professionals', it didn't mean a great deal to me. I suspect it would mean more if I'd seen all of these movies/TV shows the novel referred to. A shame, since I think a die-hard PROS fan would love this novel. [1]
