No Vanity
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| Zine | |
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| Title: | No Vanity |
| Publisher: | Nut Hatch Collective |
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| Author(s): | Wally |
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| Date(s): | 1996 alone?, then a later edition with a revised ending, then as part of a trilogy |
| Series?: | yes |
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| Fandom: | The Professionals |
| Language: | English |
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No Vanity is a slash Professionals novel by Wally.
It is the last part of a trilogy. See Echoes of Elfland Horns. Other zines in the trilogy are Echoes of Elfland Horns and Sparrow Through the Hall.
Summary from Flyer
Here is CI5 ... but not quite the CI5 we know. Cowley is running a top-level research project that pivots around Bodie and Doyle, but principally around Bodie, who's been a mercenary, a prisoner in a camp in Africa. Bodie may never know who it was who paid to get him out of that camp, but even Cowley's best-laid plans sometimes go awry. An CI5's research project is severely jeopardized when someone within the organization betrays them. There's trouble in the Mid-East, and Bodie gives the slip to surveillance he had not even known was there. Before CI5 can catch up with him again, he's back on English soil, he's enlisted in the parachute regiment ... but what concerns Cowley most is that he will remember the dream. So will Ray Doyle, who at this time is a cop working under-cover. The betrayal from inside CI5 was calculated, deliberate ... an agent's wife has been murdered,replaced by a mechanism ... and now, both Doyle and Bodie are in England, and Cowley's project is about to shift into high gear. [1]
A Revised Ending
There appears to have been some controversy regarding this novel, something that may explain the confusing publications. From the 1999 editorial of Cleopatra's Nose:
To those readers who may have been "put off' or otherwise discouraged from ordering Wally's last novel. No Vanity — the final segment in the Elfland Horns trilogy — by various reports or reviews that have been circulating on the Web — let me assure you that the ending has been restructured — not only are you safe to order and read, but you're really going to get a kick out of this new version. If you're still in any doubts, check out the chapbook on-line: I uploaded both the original version and the new version of the ending. Go right to the Nut Hatch master contents list, click on "New Zines," and you can link from there straight to a "reading room" devoted to this project. Enjoy!