09/16/2026
Happening soon!!!
James P. Rochester will read from, discuss and sign his debut novel, Agent Bigglesby: Not Dead Yet. Here, at
September 26th
11am - 1pm
Abednego Book Shoppe
2682 E Main St
Ventura, CA
805-643-9350
About the Book
As Time Goes Bye-Bye
What happens when one of the world’s greatest superspies struggles with retirement? Officially, he’s dead, of course, but for 84-year-old Herbert Bigglesby, a quiet fadeout at Sunset View Senior Living Community is not going well. He feels like a prisoner, no one believes his stories, and his once-honored sixth sense for danger is now ridiculed as paranoid delusion. But he’s not wrong. His enemies are not all resting in peace or dementia. Soon he finds himself thrust back into his old world of high-speed chases, unusual alliances, and late-night adventures with gorgeous women, though staying up past 8:00 is hard to do!
With his past, present, and future all at stake, he flips the script and PT tables on what aging is all about. And he won’t suffer scammers lightly as he gathers his remaining wits about him and heads to the high seas for what is hardly a final slowdown.
About the Author
James P. Rochester Jr. III is a very private, reclusive person. He was last known to be raising alpacas in Uruguay, although he rumored to be passing thru Ventura this month!
He is a man of naturally mean talents and is pained in disposition or that. His relatives deny any resemblance and he has little time to spare. He happens to be passing thru Ventura this September.
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REVIEW
"Rochester writes with a restless comic energy, piling jokes on top of references, misunderstandings, wordplay, and physical mishaps...
Herbert is not always easy to like. He’s vain, inappropriate, stubborn, and trapped in an old version of himself that the world has mostly outgrown. Still, I found myself curious about him because the book does not treat aging as a soft-focus lesson in wisdom. It treats it as a collision."
--Thomas Anderson, Editor In Chief, Literary Titan
