The Lives of Carruthers

II. Black Masks Read Part I here . In my 2010 essay Bourne Yesterday , I looked at four novels that all featured secret agents suffering from amnesia caused by a blow to the head while undercover on a mission: Ian Fleming’s You Only Live Twice (1964), Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Identity (1980), and two novels published in 1940, Faked Passports by Dennis Wheatley and Pray Silence by Manning Coles…