The story follows Vance Powers, a recently divorced corporate lawyer whose boring life gets turned upside down when a Congressman he knows hires him for a secret mission - infiltrate his local suburban amateur theatrical group in order to find some missing CIA money. I Was A Teeny-Bopper For The CIA was published by Berkley in 1967, when Mark was already well established as a pulp writer. Ted Mark was the pen name for Ted Gottfried, author of more than a hundred novels and nonfiction titles, many of them on the racy side. I was right, I’ve never seen that book again, and now, 20 years later, I finally got around to reading it. I’d never heard of the title or author before (I wasn’t about to forget that title!) and figured this would be something I’d never see again. So when I came across Ted Mark’s I Was A Teeny-Bopper For The CIA I just had to get it. I also learned the joy of collecting vintage paperbacks, with the added joy of getting them for next to nothing. My library exploded with books on every topic imaginable. I realized that I would never get another opportunity like that in my life and took full advantage. Sometimes the manager would be like, “You did a good job today, Sean, take a book.” Most books are half cover price, and employees got a 50% discount. They have several stores around the state and they’re all as big as supermarkets, filled with used books, music, and games. Many, many years ago I worked at a used bookstore called Bookmans in Tucson.
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