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''The Chinese Agent'' (1970) is a comic novel by Michael Moorcock. It is a revision of ''Somewhere in the Night'', which Moorcock published in 1966 under the pseudonym Bill Barclay. Although Moorcock is best known as the author of fantasy fiction and science fiction-based parables such as ''Behold the Man'' and ''The Dancers at the End of Time'', here he writes a light-hearted caper that parodies the spy novel genre. ''The Chinese Agent'' was recently reissued in the United Kingdom as ''Jerry Cornell's Comic Capers.'' The new edition includes a sequel, ''The Russian Intelligence'' (1980). ==Characters== *Jeremiah "Jerry" Cornell is a handsome but slightly seedy Londoner whose shady past might have sent him to prison, were it not for certain skills that make him more valuable as an agent for British Intelligence. His name, with the initials "J.C.", is one of the author's trademarks: other Moorcock protagonists include Jherek Carnelian and Jerry Cornelius. *Arnold Hodgkiss is a young Chinese American patent attorney whose secret identity is "Jewellery Jules." He is a notorious jewel thief who has never been caught, or even suspected. *Shirley Withers is a receptionist at the National Insurance Company (aka Cell 87), where she and Jerry both work. She initially dislikes him, mostly because she can never remember his name; she keeps calling him "Mr. Cornelius." Later, she becomes Jerry's girlfriend, and, although he thinks it's only a temporary arrangement, she has other ideas. *Kung Fu Tzu, the Chinese agent of the title, is in London to steal plans for "Project Glass", a powerful new laser technology. He becomes convinced, through a series of accidents, that Jerry is a super agent of James Bond calibre. *The Cornells, Jerry's blood relatives, are an assortment of hideously depraved petty thieves, most of whom live together in a filthy hovel in London's slums. The most disgusting of them, Uncle Edmond, is a junk dealer with a semi-sentient midden heap in his yard. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Chinese Agent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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