The Man from ORGY Books in Order
Part ofTed Mark Books in OrderSee The Man from ORGY books by Ted Mark in order, with quick summaries, series background, and a simple guide to where Steve Victor's story begins.
Last updated: July 2, 2026
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Publication Order
13 books
The 9-Month Caper
by Ted Mark
1965
In Miami, Steve Victor is dragged into a Caribbean mission involving Castro, revolution, and a missing British agent. The result is another globe-hopping spoof where sex comedy and spy trouble keep colliding.
The Man From O.R.G.Y.
by Ted Mark
1965
Steve Victor, a one-man sex researcher who sometimes works as a spy, crisscrosses the globe and stumbles into a Cold War plot involving stolen Soviet nuclear secrets. It is a broad, very 1960s mix of espionage parody and adult farce.
Dr. Nyet
by Ted Mark
1966
Steve Victor goes up against S.M.U.T., a moral crusade with world-domination plans hiding behind an anti-pornography campaign. It is one of the series' clearest spy spoofs, with Cold War nerves turned into outrageous farce.
The Real Gone Girls
by Ted Mark
1966
When a dead madam's fortune is left to three missing women, Steve Victor is sent to find them before killers and grifters do. The case plays like a dirty-joke detective hunt with a surprisingly strong mystery setup.
Back Home at the O.R.G.Y.
by Ted Mark
1968
A mission takes Steve Victor to Tibet, where a scientist's time machine sends him spinning into the past. Ancient history, strange inventions, and Victor's usual troublemaking energy turn this into one of the series' oddest detours.
Come Be My O.R.G.Y.
by Ted Mark
1968
Steve Victor is still caught in the chaos of a malfunctioning time machine, bouncing through other eras while Ti Nih Baapuh reappears on the sidelines. It keeps the series' joke-heavy mix of sex farce, science fiction, and spy nonsense.
Here's Your O.R.G.Y.
by Ted Mark
1969
Steve Victor is pulled into a bizarre scavenger hunt after a wealthy bathroom tycoon asks for help landing a Middle Eastern deal. The setup is absurd even by series standards, and that is very much the point.
Hard Day's Knight
by Ted Mark
1972
When an inventor vanishes after throwing a valuable new alloy into a lake, Steve Victor is sent to recover both man and secret. The mission folds space-race anxiety into one more loud, comic spy caper.
My Son, The Double Agent
by Ted Mark
1972
Steve Victor is framed by an exact double, accused of crimes he did not commit, and forced to question who is using his name. It adds doppelganger confusion to the series' running battle with S.M.U.T.
Around the World is not a Trip
by Ted Mark
1973
On a cruise around the world, Steve Victor finds himself surrounded by distractions while someone seems determined to sabotage the voyage. The book turns a pleasure trip into a loose, very pulpy conspiracy chase.
Dial O For O.R.G.Y.
by Ted Mark
1973
Steve Victor hunts a crazed computer programmer whose talent for disruption could unleash total chaos. Gorgeous distractions, gadget-era paranoia, and a very 1970s fear of runaway technology keep the spoof moving.
Room at the Topless
by Ted Mark
1973
The world thinks Steve Victor is dead, but his latest assignment sends him straight into dangerous trouble on the Sunset Strip. Hollywood glamour, fake deaths, and one more sinister enemy make this a gleefully trashy series entry.
The Tight End
by Ted Mark
1981
Steve Victor gets one of his strangest jobs yet, helping a hopeless pro football team finally learn how to score. It is late-period O.R.G.Y., broad and goofy, with sports satire replacing the usual globe-trotting mission.
Series background & context
The Man from O.R.G.Y. is Ted Mark's best-known series, and it wears its joke right on the cover. The hero is Steve Victor, a one-man outfit called O.R.G.Y., short for the Organization for the Rational Guidance of Youth. Officially, that sounds wholesome enough. In practice, Victor uses it as cover for sex research, globe-trotting, and the occasional secret mission.
He is not a straight-faced superspy.
That is the whole engine of the series. These books arrived during the 1960s spy boom, and Mark turns the Bond and U.N.C.L.E. mood into broad adult parody. In The Man From O.R.G.Y., Victor moves from Damascus to Baghdad, Calcutta to Tokyo, all while getting tangled in Cold War politics, stolen Soviet secrets, and power struggles he is only half suited to handle. The 9-Month Caper throws him into Caribbean turmoil, while Dr. Nyet gives him one of the series' clearest recurring enemies, S.M.U.T., a supposedly moral organization with grand plans and ridiculous methods.
The plots usually start with a single strange assignment and then keep escalating. In The Real Gone Girls, Victor has to track down missing women tied to a dead madam's fortune. In My Son, The Double Agent, he is haunted by an exact double and the fear that someone else is living his life under his name. In Room at the Topless, the world thinks he is dead, which only makes his latest mission harder. Ted Mark likes spy-thriller ingredients, but he rarely treats them with much reverence.
The settings matter because the series is always reaching for the next topical backdrop. One book uses the Caribbean and Castro-era tension. Another heads to the Sunset Strip. Later entries get looser and stranger, with Back Home at the O.R.G.Y. and Come Be My O.R.G.Y. dragging Victor into time-machine trouble, and Dial O For O.R.G.Y. playing with early computer-age chaos. By the time you reach The Tight End, even pro football can become an O.R.G.Y. mission.
Realism is not the point.
What readers come to these books for is the mix, spy spoof, sex farce, topical satire, and a hero who keeps stumbling through danger with more nerve than discipline. Steve Victor wants pleasure, freedom, and maybe enough money to keep his odd little enterprise running. The world keeps answering by sending him dictators, doubles, zealots, inventors, and maniacs. If you want a neat, carefully plotted thriller series, this is not that. If you want a very 1960s paperback fever dream that keeps reinventing itself, this is exactly that.
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