Missed It By That Much!

Chief: "Whitestone is . . . a magician. . . The description I have for him is that he is tall, white-haired, and very distinguished."
Max: "He should be easy to spot. Tall, white-haired, distinguished, and pulling a rabbit out of a hat."

Missed It By That Much!
Published	April 1967
Author	William Johnston
Novel Number	5
Villain	Whitestone
Preceded by	Max Smart and the Perilous Pellets
Followed by	And Loving It!

Get Smart Novel #5.

Plot

In MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH!, Max and 99 face stampeding elephants, quicksand, a cannibal tribe, steamy jungles, and worst of all the wily Whitestone, a magician-illusionist turned KAOS agent.

Agent 86 must find Dr. Livingstrom, who is somewhere in darkest Africa, before KAOS steals his secret formula, Brassica Oleracia-212°, to use against the Free World.

Can Max get to Dr. Livingstrom before the Forces of Evil?

Can he capture his formidable foe, Whitestone?

Or does he MISS HIM BY THAT MUCH?

- from the back cover.

Synopsis

Characters

CONTROL

• Maxwell Smart
• Agent 99
• Chief

KAOS

• Whitestone

Others

• Dr. Livingstrom

Trivia

The cover photo of Novel #5 appears to have been taken in the same photo shoot as that of Comic #5 published at about the same time.