Wild Wild West (1966)
Richard WormserVintage TV tie-in paperback
Published during the show's run in the 1960s, it was adapted from the TV episode The Night of The Double-Edged Knife
Major James West dines on escargots in garlic butter, finishes up with demitasse and cognac, plays a hand of poker with his English butler (who cheats). His home is a luxuriously appointed railroad car; his job is to ferret out trouble along the borders and frontiers of the untamed West.
Here West and his sidekick (a man of instant disguises) infiltrate the ranks of restless redskins as they hunt down a railroad saboteur. Along the way they pick up a cussing Irish beauty, a Dartmouth-educated Indian chief, a one-armed general, some wily Wall Street magnates, and finally, of course, the villain.
THE WILD WILD WEST is a wildly entertaining western-suspense-spy-thriller…with a hearty dash of spoof.