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...additive effect of two males together." In Tripp's view, the average heterosexual who wants to play sadomasochistic games with his wife or girlfriend will be disappointed. Despite the male fantasy of a masked, booted, whip-wielding beauty, most women seldom want anything to do with SM. In male-to-male relationships, there is no such shortage of players, and leather bars make them easy to locate...
...particularly those with wanton Western ways. He is a gentle man, except when provoked. "There is a time for diplomacy and there is a time for fighting," he says. "The time for diplomacy is long past. Violence must be answered with violence." He is Lieut. Mourad Saber, 32, Agent SM-15 of Algerian counterespionage, and he is at least twice the man that 007 ever...
...invincible SM-15 has outwitted imperialists, colonialists and Zionists in five books released by the Algerian State Publishing House. No Phantoms for Tel Aviv, Halt Plan Terror!, Rescue the Fedayeen Girl, Vengeance at Gaza and Hangmen Also Die are tailored for Arab readers. The fact that they are printed only in French, however, has restricted their audience in the Arab world. Even so, Saber has won himself a following of camp-conscious European devotees who affectionately refer to him as Achmed Bond...
Indeed, there are numerous similarities between SM-15 and the indefatigable James Bond. Both are equally skillful at planting explosives and pulverizing adversaries. Of course Saber, while he is shooting two South Africans in the head, heroically confesses that he feels "a certain repugnance" toward such necessary bloodshed. Where Bond's nemesis is the satanic spy network SMERSH, Saber's is Shin-Bet, the Israeli counterespionage agency, and especially dark-haired, black-eyed Lieut. Colonel Isaiah Shader. ("A true Semite, that...
...Saber is not everybody's idol, even in the Arab world. El Moujhaid's literary critic found the books "lacking in style and humor" and decided that author and hero "ludicrously underestimate the caliber of Israeli agents." But Arabs are momentarily short of other heroes, and so SM-15's cult is growing...