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Young Bond
YoungJamesBond.jpg
Illustration of a young James Bond by Kev Walker

SilverFin
Blood Fever
Double or Die
Hurricane Gold
By Royal Command
Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier
 Shoot to Kill

Author
Charlie Higson, Steve Cole
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Genre
Spy fiction, Thriller
Publisher
Puffin Books (UK)
Hyperion Books (US)
Published
3 March 2005 – 3 September 2008
Media type
Print (hardback & paperback)
Audiobook
Young Bond is a series of young adult spy novels by Charlie Higson featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond as a young teenage boy attending school at Eton College in the 1930s. The series was originally planned to include only five novels; however, after the release of the fifth novel, a second series was considered by Higson as a possibility.[1] In October 2013 it was confirmed that a second series of four novels was in development, with the first novel due for release in Autumn 2014, but it would be penned by Steve Cole while Higson continued work on his young adult zombie series, The Enemy.[2]
Since the release of the first novel SilverFin in 2005, the series has become very successful[3] and has led to further works including games, a graphic novel and even a supplemental travel guide. The last book, By Royal Command, was published in September 2008.
English-language versions of the books are published by Puffin Books in the United Kingdom and Hyperion Books For Children in the United States.


Contents  [hide]
1 Books in the series 1.1 Graphic novels
1.2 Supplementary books
1.3 Short story
2 History and controversy
3 US publication
4 Games
5 Other media
6 Continuation
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Books in the series[edit]
According to Charlie Higson, Ian Fleming Publications initially planned for him to only write one novel and that every subsequent novel would be written by a rotating author. This plan fell apart and Higson agreed to author future books in the series. However, comments made by Higson in an interview could suggest that after Higson's five books are completed, the series may be continued by another author.[4]
SilverFin (2005): In 1933, thirteen-year-old James Bond arrives at Eton College for boys for the first time to continue his schooling. There he meets an American bully and his arms dealing father, Lord Randolph Hellebore. While on Easter break, Bond's adventure continues in the Highlands of Scotland. Teaming up with Red Kelly, James finally reaches a castle and a loch and discovers a deadly secret.
Blood Fever (2006): In 1933, James Bond is back at Eton where he is now a member of a secret risk-taking club known as the Danger Society. When summer vacation arrives Bond goes on a field trip to the Italian island of Sardinia where he stays with his much older cousin Victor. While there, James investigates a Roman secret society known as the Millenaria that had plans throughout history to restore the Roman Empire. It seems the Millenaria are still active and are led by the sinister Count Ugo Carnifex.
Double or Die (2007): The third Young Bond novel is set entirely in England during Christmas and finds James searching for a missing school master in the darkest corners of London. The book involves Russian spies attempting to build an early computer. The title of the book was chosen by fans via an online poll and kept secret until the day of publication.[5]
Hurricane Gold (2007): The fourth Young Bond novel, Hurricane Gold, is set in Mexico and the Caribbean. The book was released on 6 September 2007 in the UK.[6] The plot is centred around Bond trying to foil the robbery of a team of professional criminals, only to end up following them around Mexico and eventually to a mysterious Caribbean island called Lagrimas Negras. The book contains many references to Mayan mythology and much of the end is focused on it.
By Royal Command (2008) : The fifth Young Bond novel[7] was released in the UK on 3 September 2008. The book deals with Bond leaving Eton College due to the incident with the maid, as mentioned in You Only Live Twice.[8] This book is set in multiple European countries including Austria, England, France, Germany and Switzerland. The Royal Family and the British secret service also play a part in the plot (revealing that Bond's tutor is a British spy).[9] In this book, James Bond falls in love with his Irish maid, Roan.[10][11]
Graphic novels[edit]
SilverFin: The Graphic Novel (2008) : The first Young Bond novel, SilverFin, was released as a graphic novel on 2 October 2008 by Puffin Books. The book was written by Charlie Higson and illustrated by renowned comic book artist Kev Walker.[12] It was released by Disney Publishing in the US as both a hardcover and paperback in 2010 and was awarded the 2011 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award the following year.[13]
Supplementary books[edit]
The Young Bond Rough Guide to London, Puffin Books/Rough Guides (2007)
64-page booklet featuring London locations from Double or Die.Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier, Puffin Books (2009)
Complete and definitive guide to the world and adventures of Young Bond. It includes the brand-new Young Bond short story "A Hard Man to Kill" by Charlie Higson. Release date: 29 October 2009.[14][15]
Short story[edit]
An original Young Bond short story by Charlie Higson titled A Hard Man to Kill was published in the companion book Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier on 29 October 2009. The story is set between the books Hurricane Gold and By Royal Command and involves Young Bond travelling back to London aboard the French ocean liner SS Colombie. An extract from the story appeared in the paperback edition of By Royal Command. It is the longest James Bond short story yet written.[16][17]
History and controversy[edit]
Prior to the release of SilverFin, the idea of a Young Bond series had not gone over too well with the fans of the more traditional Bond literature and had come under heavy fire, with some fans comparing it to an unsuccessful 1960s attempt by Bond's publishers to launch a youth-oriented line of fiction that resulted in only one book: The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ written by the pseudonymous R. D. Mascott. There was also a moderately successful James Bond Jr. television series in the early 1990s aimed at children that dealt with Bond's supposed nephew.
John Gardner, who had written fourteen original novels and two novelisations featuring the adult Bond, was also critical of the series prior to the release of the first book. He stated:
"It's just the last desperate attempt to draw in a new audience. The films have little to do with the Bond we used to know, and now the books are going the same way."[18]
Higson, for his part, has been on record as stating that he intends to stay true to the backstory Ian Fleming created for Bond, though this in many ways contradicts the popular James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 by John Pearson.
When SilverFin was published in March 2005, reviews of the novel were good. This, in addition to a large marketing campaign in the United Kingdom, elevated SilverFin to the number eight spot on the Booksellers list of best-selling children's books in the UK.[19] By November 2005, SilverFin had already sold 500,000 copies worldwide.[20]
A second book in the Young Bond series, Blood Fever, was released on 5 January 2006 in the UK having been delayed from an initial release in October 2005. The book reached the number one spot on the Booksellers list of best-selling children's books in the UK in its second week of release and held the spot for eleven weeks.[21]
Double or Die, the third book in the series, was released in the UK on 4 January 2007, having had its title announced the day before. The title was voted on in a national poll on the official Young Bond website; the other two titles to choose from were N.E.M.E.S.I.S. and The Deadlock Cipher. After the first three days of Double or Die's release it took the number two spot on the Booksellers list of best-selling children's books in the UK and number fourteen in the overall UK Top 50 list. A week later it had climbed to number one on the children's list and the number twelve spot overall.[22][23]
As of March 2009 the Young Bond novels have sold over 5 million copies and have been translated into 25 languages.
In December 2010 all five Young Bond books were released as eBooks by Ian Fleming Publications.[24]
On 5 May 2011 Puffin Books released two special editions of SilverFin[25]
The five book Young Bond series will be re-released in the UK on 5 April 2012 with all new cover art by Hyperion Books.[26]
US publication[edit]
In June 2004 it was announced that the Young Bond series would be published by Miramax Books, then still a part of Disney. The acquisition was announced by Miramax co-chair Harvey Weinstein and Miramax Books president & editor in chief Jonathan Burnham. The deal’s price tag was not disclosed, but was understood to be in the six-figure range.[27] Miramax, in conjunction with Disney's Hyperion Books for Children label, published SilverFin in 2005 and Blood Fever in 2006. Following Miramax's split from Disney, Ian Fleming Publications struck a new deal for the remaining books with Hyperion Books for Children. This created a gap between publication of the books in the UK and US, with the third book, Double or Die not appearing in the US until April 2008. Book Four, Hurricane Gold, was published by Disney-Hyperion in April 2009. Also in 2009, Disney-Hyperion re-released SilverFin and Blood Fever with new cover art by artist Kev Walker.[28] By Royal Command and SilverFin: The Graphic Novel were released in the US on 18 May 2010.[13]
Games[edit]
With the release of the Hurricane Gold book TAMBA and Fleming media released the Avenue of Death game which is based on one of the chapters in the book.
On 11 August 2008 Puffin Books announced the first Young Bond alternate reality game (ARG), The Shadow War.[29] The online game started on 23 August, when Charlie Higson set the first mission during his appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. In the game, players around the world use a range of media, including the Young Bond books themselves and the World Wide Web, to complete the missions and influence the outcome of the game. Charlie Higson took part in a live online event that concluded the game on 8 October 2008.[30]
Other media[edit]
On 27 January 2005 Puffin launched the official Young Bond website www.youngbond.com.[31] The site contains downloads, games, character images by Kev Walker and book extracts. Joining "the Danger Society" allowed users to post in a forum (now closed) and receive email newsletters with the latest Young Bond news. Originally, the site was designed to look like Young Bond's room at Eton, but the site received a major overhaul in May 2008 and now features a more contemporary look.[32] Official news is streamed to the site from the fansite www.youngbonddossier.com run by "zencat" (American screenwriter John Cox).[33]
On 23 April 2005, Ian Fleming Publications released the first illustration of the thirteen-year-old James Bond drawn by Kev Walker. Walker illustrations have also been used on the covers of the U.S. hardback editions of Blood Fever and Double or Die. Walker will illustrate the SilverFin graphic novel to be released in the UK on 2 October 2008.[34]
Due to the success of SilverFin and Blood Fever, Hollywood has been interested in adapting these novels to film; however, Ian Fleming Publications and Charlie Higson have said they hope to release a few more books before possibly considering it.[3] Today, it is believed the film rights to James Bond on film reside exclusively with Danjaq, LLC, the parent company of Eon Productions, however, according to Charlie Higson this is not exactly the case.[35]
Continuation[edit]
On 9 October 2013 Ian Fleming Publications announced that a new series of four Young Bond books were in development, written by Astrosaurs creator, Steve Cole. Cole's novels will follow on from Higson's last entry, By Royal Command and the aftermath of Bond's expulsion from Eton. The first novel will be published in the UK by Random House in the autumn of 2014. A lifelong fan of the original Bond novels, Cole described the task as "a thrilling privilege and an exciting challenge".[36]
In an interview with the Bucks Herald, Cole confirmed that Bond would be 14–15 years old in his novels and that the books would show how the adult Bond was formed. As part of the process for securing the position, Cole was tasked with creating a pitch for a story arc that would stretch across all four books.[37] In May 2014, it was announced that Cole's book, titled Shoot to Kill, will be released on 6 November 2014.[38]
See also[edit]

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James Bond Jr.
Alex Rider
Jimmy Coates
CHERUB
Henderson's Boys
Cody Banks
Spy School
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Higson plots new Young Bond books". BBC News. 24 April 2008. Retrieved 24 April 2008.
2.Jump up ^ "More Young Bond adventures coming with new author Steve Cole". MI6-HQ. 9 October 2013.
3.^ Jump up to: a b "Author resists Young Bond movie". BBC News. 30 May 2006. Retrieved 30 May 2006.
4.Jump up ^ "Charlie Higson interview with CommanderBond.net". The Charlie Higson CBn Interview. Retrieved 23 February 2005.
5.Jump up ^ "Video of Double or Die title announcement". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 3 January 2007.
6.Jump up ^ "Hurricane Gold official announcement". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 24 April 2007.[dead link]
7.Jump up ^ "Young Bond 5 is BY ROYAL COMMAND". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 6 March 2008.
8.Jump up ^ "MI6-HQ.com interview with Charlie Higson". In Conversation With Charlie Higson. Retrieved 8 March 2006.
9.Jump up ^ Major Young Bond 5 update from Charlie Higson
10.Jump up ^ "Young Bond 5 working title revealed". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 10 October 2007.
11.Jump up ^ "Charlie drops a Book 5 bombshell". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 6 October 2007.
12.Jump up ^ "SilverFin The Graphic Novel released in UK". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
13.^ Jump up to: a b "SilverFin The Graphic Novel nominated for Eisner Award". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
14.Jump up ^ "Young Bond companion book in November". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
15.Jump up ^ "Danger Society release date pulled forward". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 29 April 2009.[dead link]
16.Jump up ^ "Exclusive: Title and details revealed of new Young Bond short story". MI6-HQ.com. Retrieved 16 May 2009.
17.Jump up ^ "Young Bond is back in ‘A Hard Man to Kill’". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 28 May 2009.
18.Jump up ^ "John Gardner on Young Bond series". Boys' own James Bond. Retrieved 28 February 2005.
19.Jump up ^ "'Blood Fever' sales". Blood Fever is No. 1 Bestseller. Retrieved 18 January 2006.
20.Jump up ^ "SilverFin sales". The name's Bond – Bond junior. Archived from the original on 5 December 2007. Retrieved 5 September 2006.
21.Jump up ^ "Young Bond sales and acclaim". Young Bond at IFP's official site. Retrieved 18 January 2006.[dead link]
22.Jump up ^ "Double or Die sales". Bestsellers. Retrieved 20 January 2007.
23.Jump up ^ "Double or Die sales and acclaim". Double or Die is No. 1 Bestseller. Retrieved 20 January 2007.[dead link]
24.Jump up ^ "Young Bond novels released as eBooks in the UK". The Book Bond. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
25.Jump up ^ "EXCLUSIVE: NEW YOUNG BOND SILVERFIN SPECIAL EDITIONS". The Book Bond. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
26.Jump up ^ "YOUNG BOND 2012 REFRESH COVERS REVEALED!". The Book Bond. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
27.Jump up ^ "Miramax Buys Rights to First Two Young James Bond Novels". CommanderBond.net. Retrieved 23 June 2004.
28.Jump up ^ "US Young Bond titles getting cover refresh in 2009". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 16 September 2008.
29.Jump up ^ "The Shadow War press release". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 11 August 2008.
30.Jump up ^ "The Shadow War is won!". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 8 October 2008.
31.Jump up ^ "Young Bond Website Launched!". CommanderBond.net. Retrieved 27 January 2005.
32.Jump up ^ "Youngbond.come gets a makeover". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 28 May 2008.
33.Jump up ^ "Young Bond Dossier now OFFICIAL news source". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 7 September 2007.
34.Jump up ^ "New release date for SilverFin graphic novel". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 8 June 2006.
35.Jump up ^ "Young Bond film rights". Charlie Higson in Los Angeles. Retrieved 20 October 2005.
36.Jump up ^ "New Young Bond series in 2014". Ian Fleming Publications.
37.Jump up ^ "Licence to thrill: Author selected to write young James Bond novels". Bucks Herald. 23 November 2013.
38.Jump up ^ "New Young Bond Title Revealed". Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
External links[edit]
Young Bond official website
The Young Bond Dossier – Official Young Bond news source
Young Bond coverage on MI6
Young Bond coverage at CommanderBond.net


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By Royal Command
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By Royal Command
By Royal Command Cover Art.jpg
Hardback cover

Author
Charlie Higson
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond / Young Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Puffin Books

Publication date
 3 September 2008
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
354 pp (first edition)
ISBN
978-0-14-138451-1
OCLC
230989341
Preceded by
Hurricane Gold
Followed by
Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier
By Royal Command [1] is the fifth novel in the Young Bond series depicting Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s. The novel, written by Charlie Higson, takes place in 1934 and see James at the age of fourteen. Locations include The Alps (Kitzbühel), England, France, Lisbon, and Vienna.[2]
By Royal Command was published in hardcover by Puffin Books in the UK on September 3, 2008. Cover art (featuring a black and red Union Jack) was not revealed until the day of publication. The paperback was released on May 28, 2009, and includes an extract from a new Young Bond short story by Charlie Higson, "A Hard Man to Kill".[3][4][5]
By Royal Command was released by Disney-Hyperion in the U.S. on May 18, 2010. Cover artwork is by Owen Richardson.[6]


Contents  [hide]
1 Synopsis
2 Background
3 Tie-in game
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Synopsis[edit]
In Lisbon, OGPU Colonel Irina Sedova, also known as 'Babuska' (Russian for 'grandmother'), visits the leader of the Communist Cell in Portugal. However, she soon realizes that he isn't the cell leader. He vainly tries to kill her but Sedova's bulletproof vest protects her and she manages to kill the imposter. She then finds a sheet of paper with a name from the past on it: James Bond.
During this time, Bond is on his way for a school skiing trip in Austria when he runs afoul of a group of Hitler Youth members who call him a cheater for having won a game of poker. He beats them, gives them back their money, and tells them to play with good grace. Some time later, he arrives in Austria where he realizes that he is being followed. When he arrives at his hotel, he is still being followed. There, he meets with his friend Andrew Carlton and his teacher Mr. Merriot. During a skiing outing, Bond goes after one of his classmates who is drunk and they get caught in an avalanche. After saving himself and his classmate, Bond is hospitalised and hears a man crying out about his cousin named Jürgen who is going to be killed. He later finds out this man was the Graf Von Schlick.
A few days later, the boys return to Eton where Bond is introduced to the new head of his House's Library, Theo Bentinck, a cruel and sadistic individual who enjoys tormenting the younger boys, and who immediately decides to target James for his abuse, knowing that he is not afraid of standing up to older students. Bond also meets the new maid, Roan Power. He finds himself falling in love with her and starts to spend time with her, although doing so brings him unwanted attention from Theo Bentinck. She takes him to meet her friend, an Irishman named Dandy O'Keefe. During this meeting, Bond accidentally meets the Princesses, Elizabeth and Mary but doesn't recognize them. A few days later, he is invited to a party given by the Prince of Wales where he meets the mysterious Graf Otto von Schlick.
On the 4 June King George V comes to Eton and Bond spots Sedova among the crowd. Sometime later he is knocked unconscious, bound and gagged by Dandy, who is planning to assassinate the King by blowing up the church of Eton, while framing Bond for it as part of a plan to start a communist revolution. After preventing the attempt and escaping with a hidden knife, Bond goes after Dandy, who tries to kill him with his knife. Bond is saved by the man who followed him in Austria when he shoots Dandy, who takes him to Mr. Merriot. The teacher reveals that he works for MI6 and that they have been keeping an eye on him. He tells Bond that Dandy and Roan are working for a Communist cell and that they want to know all about the operation. They want Bond to get Roan to talk.
Back at Eton, Roan tells Bond that they are working for a Communist agent who they know as 'Amethyst', who works for the Communist cell based in Portugal. This operation is being run by a man known as 'Obsidian'. Bond informs her that Dandy was captured and, after she begs him not to give her away, they share a kiss. However, unable to betray Roan, Bond tells her the truth and they make plans to run away to Austria together. Before they leave, Bond is accosted by Theo Bentinck, who has been out drinking, and provokes him, before tidily beating him up, and sending him on his way. With the help of James's friend, Perry Mandeville, he and Roan are able to get enough money to leave the country. During their crossing the continent into Austria, they are pursued not only by MI6 but also by Sedova.
When they arrive in Austria, Roan betrays Bond to Obsidian who is none other than Dr. Perseus Friend, whom Bond thought he had killed in Silverfin. It is revealed that Friend had assumed the identity of the Graf since the surgery and had met Bond at the party, and the original Graf had been killed. Also, it is revealed that Friend and Amethyst, a Russian named Vladimir Wrangel, are not working for the Russians but for the Nazis. The plan was to trick Dandy and Roan into believing that the King's death would inspire the workers of Britain to revolt against the government, and then into killing King George V. The King's death would, thus, have placed Edward VIII on the throne. As he was more sympathetic towards Hitler, and the fact that Dandy and Roan would have claimed to be working for the Communists, the United Kingdom would have formed an alliance with Germany, isolating the French and giving Germany an ally in the ensuing war against Communist Russia. Dr. Friend mocks Roan's idealism by saying that the British were too conservative to rise up against their monarchy.
Bond and Roan are locked up and Friend plans to have Bond flayed alive as a revenge for having nearly killed him. However, they manage to escape and are pursued around the castle by Wrangel. As he is about to kill them, OGPU agents under the command of Colonel Sedova, who had followed the entire conspiracy since Lisbon, attacked the Germans. Roan kills Wrangel, saving Bond, and Sedova kills Friend. Sedova corners Bond and Roan just as Bond had cornered her in London. Deciding to show him the same mercy, she tells him that she is taking him back to Russia as leverage against the British, when MI6 arrive and rescue the two. Sedova tries to shoot Bond, who is saved by Roan. Bond shoots Sedova, although she disappears shortly afterwards. Before dying, Roan reveals that she had been married to Dandy, but that she loved Bond.
Subsequently Merriot informs Bond that, although the King was very grateful that he had saved his life, he would be unable to remain at Eton, so Bond is sent instead to Fettes College.
Background[edit]
In an interview, Higson stated that By Royal Command will deal with Bond being forced to leave Eton College due to an incident with a maid. The incident was previously mentioned from the point of view of M in Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice.

It must be admitted that his career at Eton was brief and undistinguished and, after only two halves, as a result, it pains me to record, of some alleged trouble with one of the boys' maids, his aunt was requested to remove him. She managed to obtain his transfer to Fettes, his father's old school.
—Ian Fleming You Only Live Twice, Chapter 21: Obit:[7]
According to Higson, M's comment about the incident was a deliberate attempt to cover up the truth. "Basically, it is decided that things need to be hushed"
The Royal Family and the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) also play a role in By Royal Command. Because of talks of communism, anarchism, and fascism, this book is meant for an older audience than the usual '11 and up' age group. Bond meets Princess Elizabeth and her uncle the Prince of Wales during the course of the book.[8] Even though the book will be partially set in The Alps, it does not offer any revelations about Bond's parents' deaths in an Alpine climbing accident.[2]
At the launch party for Hurricane Gold, Charlie hinted that Amy Goodenough (from Blood Fever) and the villain Babushka (from Double or Die) return in this Young Bond adventure.[9] He also revealed that James Bond falls in love.[10]
Tie-in game[edit]
On 11 August 2008 Puffin Books announced the first Young Bond alternate reality game (ARG), The Shadow War, designed to tie-in with the release of By Royal Command.[11] The online game started on 23 August, when Charlie Higson set the first mission during his appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. In the game, players around the world use a range of media, including the Young Bond books themselves and the internet, to complete the missions and influence the outcome of the game. Higson took part in a live online event that concluded the game on 8 October 2008.[12]
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Young Bond 5 is BY ROYAL COMMAND". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved March 6, 2008.
2.^ Jump up to: a b "The Charlie Higson CBn Interview II". CBn/The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved September 1, 2007.
3.Jump up ^ "By Royal Command cover will be kept Top Secret". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved July 31, 2008.
4.Jump up ^ "By Royal Command paperback coming in May 2009". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved September 3, 2008.
5.Jump up ^ "New Young Bond short story preview in By Royal Command paperback". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved April 20, 2009.
6.Jump up ^ "By Royal Command US cover art and artist revealed". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved February 17, 2010.
7.Jump up ^ Fleming, Ian (1964). "21". In William Plomer. You Only Live Twice. Jonathan Cape.
8.Jump up ^ "Charlie talks By Royal Command". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved March 11, 2008.
9.Jump up ^ "Report on today's Hurricane Gold launch party". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved September 6, 2007.
10.Jump up ^ "Charlie drops a Book 5 bombshell". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved October 7, 2007.
11.Jump up ^ "The Shadow War press release". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved August 11, 2008.
12.Jump up ^ "The Shadow War is won!". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved October 8, 2008.
External links[edit]
Official Young Bond website


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James Bond novels and short stories


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Ian Fleming

Casino Royale (1953) ·
 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
 Moonraker (1955) ·
 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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Hurricane Gold
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Hurricane Gold
Hurricane Gold.jpg
First edition UK hardcover

Author
Charlie Higson
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond / Young Bond
Genre
Spy novel
Publisher
Puffin Books

Publication date
 6 September 2007
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
372 pp
ISBN
ISBN 978-0-14-138391-0 (first edition hardback)
OCLC
137312909
Preceded by
Double or Die
Followed by
By Royal Command
Hurricane Gold is the fourth novel in the Young Bond series depicting Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s. The novel is set in Mexico and the Caribbean. It was first published in the UK in September 2007.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot introduction
2 Title
3 Plot summary
4 La Avenida de Muerte
5 Writing the book
6 Publication history
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Plot introduction[edit]
Two American children are abducted by criminals searching for military plans stolen by their father. James Bond attempts to protect them by masquerading as a young Mexican thief and joining the gang. They journey through a hurricane-damaged Mexico and eventually arrive at the Caribbean island Lagrimas Negras. They will be kept there for the rest of their lives unless they complete 'La Avenida de Muerte'.
Title[edit]
Hurricane gold, according to the character El Huracán, is a legendary Mayan treasure which is cursed and will bring inevitable ruin on its possessor. The US Navy documents are the "hurricane gold" in this story, since everyone who possesses it is destroyed by the people who seek to possess it.
Plot summary[edit]
The book starts with a prologue on Lagrimas Negras (black tears), an island haven for criminals in the Caribbean. The boss, El Huracán, informs his lunch guests that one of them has broken the rule against contacting the outside world. Robert King is tricked into confessing, then made to run La Avenida de Muerte (The Avenue of Death), a deadly obstacle course. He is killed by a jaguar less than halfway through.
Following the events in Double or Die, James Bond travels to Mexico with his Aunt Charmian, who is visiting the ruined Mayan city of Palenque. In the fishing village of Tres Hermanas, Angel Corona, a young Mexican pickpocket who closely resembles James, steals Charmian's bag. James chases and corners him. Corona is subdued and soon arrested by the local police. While Jack Stone, an American flying ace and friend of Charmian's flies Charmian to Palenque (as a storm is on the way and she has to leave that night). James is left in Tres Hermanas with Stone's children, where he quickly finds problems: Stone's daughter, Precious, is a spoiled, self-centered girl about the same age as James, while her younger brother, Jack Junior or JJ, is immature and annoying.
During a devastating hurricane, some gangsters led by Mrs Glass enter the Stone house and steal the safe. James knocks one of the gunmen, Manny, out of the window. The youngsters hide from the gangsters and the storm in an underground ice house. After the storm, James takes the Stone children to town in Jack Stone's Duesenberg, which is wrecked by a sudden flood. JJ is nearly killed, but is rescued by Garcia, James's sailor friend. When JJ and Precious are captured by the remaining four robbers, James passes himself off as Angel Corona to join the gang and Garcia tags along. The names of the other criminals are Strabo, Whatzat and Sakata. The Japanese gangster Sakata befriends James and teaches him ju-jitsu.
Mrs. Glass takes the group to an old oil field in order to get tools and explosives to open the safe. She tells Precious the full story: Jack Stone had lost money after the end of the war and had become a smuggler to regain money; one of his clients was an ex-U.S Navy officer who had stolen some important documents about the U.S. Navy's Pacific fleet, which Stone managed to steal after abandoning the officer. Sakata had been sent to steal the plans, which would be very valuable to the Japanese in the event of a war. However, the documents are not in the safe, so presumably Stone had not removed them from his plane. Whatzat attacks James and drowns to death, and Garcia attempts to take JJ to Veracruz for treatment but is killed by Strabo. James learns from Mrs.Glass that Whatzat name was Charlie Moore. When JJ's injured leg becomes severely infected, Sakata, prompted by James, leaves the gang and takes JJ to the hospital in Vera Cruz.
Mrs. Glass and Strabo make a new plan to flee to Lagrimas Negras and sell the documents to the ruler of the island, El Huracán. James and Precious escape and camp out for a while. Precious has undergone a change in character; she is no longer rude and self-centered, and even develops affections for James, which she expresses by waiting for him to fall asleep and then kissing him. Then Manny shows up in a car. He is very sick, as he has had brain damage following his fall at the Stone Mansion. He slips in and out of confusion. Finally, James and Precious knock him out of the car as he sleeps and escape. They head for Pelanque, but are unable to stop Mrs Glass escaping with the documents, though Strabo is killed by army ants. The Pelanque Ruins are mentioned in the chapter titled "Pelanque" where James and Precious fall asleep in the tall tower.
Mrs. Glass goes to Lagrimas Negras alone. James and Precious follow on a ship. Manny follows them and gives chase. He is killed by El Huracán's guards and James and Precious are employed as servants on Lagrimas Negras. James discovers that when the guests of Lagrimas Negras run out of money, they are forced to work as slaves on El Huracán's farm. James also hears that running La Avenida de Muerte is the only way to get off Lagrimas Negras, though no one has ever survived it. Precious steals a map of the obstacle course from a bathroom she is cleaning and she and James start training. They trick El Huracán into letting them run the course which he does reluctantly, as he was hoping James would stay on as his successor.
James and Precious successfully traverse many obstacles, helped by their advance knowledge. Finally they reach a massive water tank containing a vicious crocodile that will almost certainly kill them, as there is no way out. However, James has left some explosives in the maintenance tunnel and blows out the wall. He is knocked unconscious by the landing. He wakes up on a rock with Precious, who passionately kisses him while they wait to be collected. El Huracán keeps his promise to release them and the book ends with James and Precious leaving Lagrimas Negras with Jack Stone. They share a private moment watching the sunset, during which Precious admits to James that she loves him (despite she understands he must return to Britain after the stories events).
La Avenida de Muerte[edit]
The obstacles of the Rat Run that James and Precious compete in are as follows:
1.A small pool of savage baby crocodiles that will bite at the ankles of anyone who swims in their pool. This is conquered because James and Precious douse themselves with animal repellent before entering the pool.
2.A long path with holes along it through which sharp spikes shoot through. James and Precious conquer this by forming a human arch along the walls that allow them to walk across them out of reach of the spikes.
3.A tunnel of scorpions that must be accessed from the previous obstacle. James and Precious are able to climb over the top of this tunnel from their human arch and so don't even get a scratch from them.
4.A giant anaconda in a pit that will constrict the victims who have no choice but to jump into the pit and land on top of it. James and Precious conquer this by simply jumping over the pit from the top of the scorpion tunnel.
5.A path of metal plates that are being heated below by El Huracán's men, making them hot enough to fry almost anything. At the end is a small trench full of water and containing leeches so that the victim doesn't stay in the water long. James and Precious get around this by cutting inserts of thin metal sheets into the soles of their shoes so that they insulate their feet and prevent the soles of their feet from burning.
6.A path with a series of transparent, razor-sharp wires across it. There is also a black jaguar at the entrance that will attack anyone who doesn't traverse the path quick enough. James and Precious have no means of conquering this other than the practice on the beach beforehand.
7.A path containing a series of millstones, two spinning clockwise and the middle one spinning anti-clockwise, with three enormous grindstones to the left hand side of them that could crush the victim if they got too close. This is one of the few tasks that James and Precious could neither prepare or practice for, having to rely on speed and balance.
8.An enormous tank full of honey that is harder to swim through than water and is easier to drown in. James and Precious manage to beat this challenge by stripping down to their underwear so that no loose clothing can weigh them down.
9.A log covered with army ants suspended over a large pit of wooden stakes that will impale the victim if he/she falls, or chooses to kill themselves. James and Precious find this challenge the hardest of the lot, as they have to crawl along the log and put up with the biting ants as they try to eat the honey they are coated in from the previous challenge while trying not to fall off.
10.The final challenge, known as One Death (Hun Came). A giant bull crocodile is kept in an enclosed chamber with no exit, which is the reason why nobody has ever escaped the Rat Run. James and Precious manage to escape the chamber by rigging up the door with dynamite the day before and detonating it from within the chamber, thus completing the Rat Run.
Writing the book[edit]
Prior to the release of SilverFin Charlie Higson said that Book 4 would be set in the Alps,[1] however, the location was changed to Mexico and the Caribbean.[2] Higson considered setting the book in North Africa, but decided against it because Ian Fleming never liked the idea of Bond going to North Africa.[3] Unlike the other Young Bond novels, there are no scenes set at Eton College.[3]
When asked whether he would continue the pattern of following Fleming's templates by echoing some elements of the fourth 007 novel Diamonds Are Forever, Higson said "there are some similarities, it is set in the Americas, there are gangsters in it but there is no cowboy train!" [4]
Higson completed work on the book in December 2006, a month before Double or Die was released.[4]
Charlie Higson's working title was Lágrimas Negras, but because the publishers had the idea of publishing it as an all-gold book, they asked Higson to try to come up with a title that included the word "gold".[3]
Also changed was the name of the character Precious Stone. She was originally named Amaryllis Stone after the half-sister of Ian Fleming (who is also referenced in the short story The Living Daylights). But because the character starts out the novel as so unpleasant, it was feared it might offend the Fleming family and the name was changed.[3]
Publication history[edit]
The novel was published as a hardcover, a first for the series, in the UK on 6 September 2007 by Puffin Books.[5] Puffin released an audiobook read by author Charlie Higson on 27 September. A paperback edition was released on 28 May 2008, the Centenary of Ian Fleming's birth.[6]
Hurricane Gold had previously been announced as a 2008 release before the publishing date was pushed up to 2007. With Double or Die also being published in 2007, this creates a unique situation – the first time more than one James Bond novel was published in the same calendar year, (not counting film novelizations, spinoff novels such as The Moneypenny Diaries or short stories).
On 10 August 2007, Charlie Higson signed and numbered 1500 copies of Hurricane Gold to be distributed to independent bookstores only.[7] Number "007" was discovered in a small bookshop in Lytham St Annes in Lancashire and sold on eBay for £156.50 ($319.82).[8]
A launch party for the novel was held at Waterstone's Piccadilly in London on 6 September 2007 with an all-gold theme.[9]
Hurricane Gold entered the charts at #2, selling 6056 copies in just half a week's sales.[10]
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "First Details of Young Bond Books 2, 3, and 4 Revealed". CommanderBond.net. Retrieved 29 December 2005.
2.Jump up ^ "Young Bond heads to Mexico in Book 4". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 14 April 2006.
3.^ Jump up to: a b c d "The Charlie Higson CBn Interview II". CBn/The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 1 September 2007.
4.^ Jump up to: a b "Charlie Higson Interview". MI6.co.uk. Retrieved 22 January 2007.[dead link]
5.Jump up ^ "Hurricane Gold official announcement". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 24 April 2007.
6.Jump up ^ "Hurricane Gold paperback". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 27 August 2007.
7.Jump up ^ "Charlie signs 1500 copies of Hurricane Gold". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 15 August 2007.
8.Jump up ^ "Hurricane Gold #007 sells on eBay". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 9 October 2007.
9.Jump up ^ "Report on today's Hurricane Gold launch party". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 6 September 2007.
10.Jump up ^ "Hurricane Gold debuts at #2!". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 11 September 2007.
External links[edit]
Official Young Bond website
The Young Bond Dossier


[hide]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
James Bond novels and short stories


James Bond series



Ian Fleming

Casino Royale (1953) ·
 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
 Moonraker (1955) ·
 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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Young Bond novels
Novels set in Mexico
Novels set in the Caribbean








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Double or Die
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Double or Die
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First edition UK paperback

Author
Charlie Higson
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond / Young Bond
Genre
Spy novel
Publisher
Puffin Books

Publication date
 4 January 2007
Media type
Print (Paperback)
Pages
389 pp
ISBN
0-14-132203-9
OCLC
71541562
Preceded by
Blood Fever
Followed by
Hurricane Gold
Double Or Die is the third novel in the Young Bond series depicting Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s. The novel, written by Charlie Higson, was released in the United Kingdom by Puffin Books on 4 January 2007. A special hardcover "Limited Collector's Edition" was released as a Waterstones Bookstore exclusive on 25 October 2007.[1]
The title was announced on 3 January 2007 at the official book launch at Waterstone's in Piccadilly, London. The alternative titles which were available for the public to vote for were "N.E.M.E.S.I.S." and "The Deadlock Cipher".[2][3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Production
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Plot summary[edit]
The story's prologue is set in Highgate Cemetery, where Professor Alexis Fairburn, an Eton beak (Professor), is kidnapped by Wolfgang and Ludwig Smith. When he was kidnapped, Fairburn was tracing a tombstone, but leaves the piece of paper with which he was tracing. The story itself starts with young James Bond and his friend, Perry Mandeville (leader of the Danger Society) reminiscing the previous days events.
Out of the blue, a letter to Pritpal from Alexis Fairburn comes, regarding Fairburn's resignation from Eton. To House Master Codrose and Headmaster Elliot, the 'mistakes' were just made by Fairburn because of his scatterbrained personality and eccentricity, but Pritpal soon figures out that the mistakes were there for a reason. James and Pritpal work towards trying to decipher them - the first of them are easy - some wrong names in the letter (Luc Olivier and Speccy Stevens) translate into "Solve seven cryptic clues."
However, they have to get several photographs of the letter, which has been confiscated by Cecil Codrose, before they can continue. Eventually, they get it and continue. They determine that they have to solve the puzzle of a certain crossword in the next The Times and eventually determine that "Gordian Knot" means that they must meet a man nicknamed "Gordius," who is coming to Pritpal's next Crossword Society meeting. James decides to come along to the meeting, but all the man does is play a game of Hearts, during which time James wins five pounds. The man gives his name as "Professor Ivar Peterson," who is a professor at Cambridge University. However, James and Pritpal do not believe him. James arranges with his friend, Perry Mandeville to go to Cambridge University, which will work as he is intending to go off to London on his father's birthday leave.
Before James can go to London, there is a break in at the school and the matron is forced to leave the school out of shock. James is sure that the intruder was intending to take something related to Fairburn. James decides to leave for London with Perry at once and learns that one more clue, when solved, says that Fairburn has actually been kidnapped and James realises that the former Maths beak is in danger. He and Perry drive to London in his Bramford and Martin. On the way, they spy an old Bentley that is for sale. Eventually, they arrive in London and James goes off to Cambridge University to find Professor Peterson. Eventually, he asks his porter if he can see him and he agrees. However, when he goes into his office, he discovers that Professor Peterson has been murdered with an Apache revolver bayonet. The killer is, in fact, still in the room and James flees before he can be attacked.
James then reads a letter that he took from Peterson's desk and finds the name "John Charnage" in it. Before he can work out what it means, the killer James had seen arrives in a Daimler vehicle with his accomplice. It is clear to the reader that the killers were Ludwig and Wolfgang, the two men who had kidnapped Fairburn. James flees in the Bramford and Martin, but the men give chase and eventually, James ends up in a river. He manages to escape the vehicle before it explodes and hides under a bridge.
James passes out from the cold and wakes up in a hospital. After managing to steal a suit and his shoes, James hitches a ride to Perry's house in a taxi. After a light breakfast with Perry, the two realise that "John Charnage" is actually Sir John Charnage, a local businessman whose father used to own a chemical factory. The two pay him a visit, but James is recognised as the boy that was seen leaving the scene of Professor Peterson's murder. He locks them in a room and leaves seemingly to call the police. James and Perry try and escape, but they are spotted and only narrowly escape by throwing a basket of groceries that a boy was delivering at Charnage. They flag down a taxi and manage to get to Hackney, where the Eton Mission is and for which Pritpal and Tommy Chong are working.
The group solve the remains of the puzzle and determine two things - they need to check Room 5 of The Royal College of Surgeons and then go to Highgate Cemetery. They go to the museum first and discover the name "Charles Babbage," who had tried to invent two machines for solving mathematical problems that were basically and early computer and determine that Charnage is trying to build one of these machines. They then head down to Highgate cemetery and meet a tramp named Theo who is living in the cemetery. He casually tells them that the cemetery houses Karl Marx, the man who had come up with the idea of Communism and "the man who turned the Russian bear red." At that moment, Wolfgang and Ludwig arrive at the graveyard and kill the tramp. James and Perry flee and split up. James hides in the trunk of the killers' Daimler and is led straight to Fairburn's kidnapper - Charnage. When they arrive, James sets alight the Daimler and, in the confusion, enters the building.
James finds himself in an old, abandoned Chemical factory and finds his way to a room marked "Hazardous Chemicals." He steals a bottle of Potassium from it. However, he is discovered and is forced to escape. He discovers that the factory has been changed into an illegal underground casino. James tries to find a way out, but an American man who has just lost a fortune in the casino forces him to help him win back his money in Roulette, preventing him from escaping. Eventually, James is caught and taken to Charnage, who decides that he needs to kill him. To do this, he forces him to drink a large amount of Gin. Drunk and with a damaged liver, James is then dragged by Ludwig and Wolfgang to a barge and they prepare to throw him into the River Thames. In his drunken state, he works out the rest of the crossword and determines that the word "Bond" (in his name) must have the word "runner" and the letter "m" inserted into it, but cannot make sense of the results. He manages to escape, however, by throwing the jar of potassium he had taken from Charnage's factory at them, blowing Wolfgang's hand off and then throwing himself overboard.
After eventually making it to land, he wanders through East London in his drunken state and passes out in an alley. He wakes up to find himself surrounded by a gang of girls, who prepare to beat him up. However, by coincidence, he is in the town of Red Kelly (the boy he met during the events of SilverFin). The leader of the gang is Red's younger sister, Kelly, who immediately takes a shine to James. After getting some food at the local pub, he goes to Red's home and learns that Charnage's business had died several years before because the labourers were always dying. James rests for a few hours and eventually determines that Charnage must have been doing a deal with the Russians to build the computer that he is trying to build, the N.E.M.E.S.I.S. machine. Red inadvertently solves the last piece of the puzzle - one of the results James had got earlier, Brunnermond, was actually where a large explosion took place, near the Royal Docks. James realises that the machine is at the Royal docks, in a boat called the Amoras. They get to the Royal docks in an old mail train that Red has been using.
Upon arrival, James and Red's sister sneak up to the boat in a small rowing boat and hide in a bathroom. James locates Fairburn and the three escape to a nearby passenger ship, where they decide to shelter for the night. Kelly, who has demonstrated an interest in James since learning his identity, insists on dancing with him in the ballroom to some music played on an old gramophone. However, during the night, some intruders get onto the boat and search for them. They are attacked by Charnage's butler Deighton and a Russian man, but are rescued by Kelly's gang. They return to the Amoras and destroy the Nemesis machine, killing Wolfgang and Ludwig in the process and decide to go off and find the Russian in charge - Colonel Irina Sedova (Babushka). They track her down to an abandoned train tunnel and search. Before leaving for the search, Red's sister gives James a kiss. They eventually find Babushka, but she prepares to kill James. James manages to kill her henchman, and discovers a gun in his own pocket. He has it aimed at Babushka's head, but she pleads with him to let her go. James agrees and eventually his friends arrive to help him. He tells Perry Mandeville that he intends to buy the Bentley they saw earlier with the money he won at the casino.
Production[edit]
Charlie Higson's original working titles for Young Bond Book 3 were "Shoot the Moon," "The Big Smoke," and "Six Days in December.".[4]
80,000 copies of the first edition were sent to stores wrapped in a special foil wrapper to preserve the secret of the title.[5]
Despite the jacket artwork being kept under official wraps until the book launch event on January 3, 2007, the skull & cross bones device was touted as a candidate cover back in August 2006.[6]
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Double or Die Collector's Edition confirmed". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 16 August 2007.[dead link]
2.Jump up ^ "Double Or Die title official announcement". mi6-hq.com. Retrieved 3 January 2007.
3.Jump up ^ "Video of Double or Die title announcement". The Young Bond Dossier. Archived from the original on 29 January 2007. Retrieved 3 January 2007.
4.Jump up ^ "Higson reveals Book 3 working titles and details". Working titles. The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 19 May 2006.[dead link]
5.Jump up ^ "Number of foil wrapped DoD firsts revealed". Working titles. The Young Bond Dossier. Archived from the original on 5 July 2007. Retrieved 22 June 2007.
6.Jump up ^ "Possible themes for Young Bond book 3 cover art revealed". mi6-hq.com. Retrieved 14 July 2006.
External links[edit]
Official Young Bond website
The Young Bond Dossier
MI6-HQ.com - Full Double or Die coverage
Double or Die REVIEW - The Young Bond Dossier
Double or Die on Bondpedia.net


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 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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Blood Fever
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Blood Fever
BloodFever.jpg
Puffin Books 2006 British paperback edition.

Author
Charlie Higson
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond / Young Bond
Genre
Spy novel
Publisher
Puffin Books

Publication date
 5 January 2006
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
384 pp (first edition, paperback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-14-131860-0 (first edition, paperback)
OCLC
62132226
Preceded by
SilverFin
Followed by
Double or Die
Blood Fever is the second novel in the Young Bond series depicting Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s. The novel, written by Charlie Higson, was released in the United Kingdom on 5 January 2006 by Puffin Books.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Awards and nominations
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Plot summary[edit]
Blood Fever begins with a prologue during which a young girl named Amy Goodenough is aboard her father's yacht in the middle of the Mediterranean when she becomes witness to a band of pirates under the command of Zoltan the Magyar who board the yacht. Zoltan's men ransack the vessel and in the process murder Amy's father who was unwilling to part with his priceless possessions. When Amy fails to get revenge by throwing a knife at Zoltan and hitting him in the shoulder, she is taken prisoner, but swears she will one day succeed in achieving vengeance.
Following the adventure SilverFin, James Bond is back at Eton where he is now a member of a secret risk-taking club known as the Danger Society. As summer vacation looms, James is given the opportunity to go to Sardinia on a field trip with one of his professors, Peter Haight and a colleague, Cooper-ffrench. While there Bond would also be able to visit his cousin, Victor Delacroix (a relation of Monique Delacroix, James deceased mother).
Prior to leaving, Bond learns of the tragedy that took place on the Goodenough's yacht from his friend, Mark Goodenough, Amy's brother who attends Eton. Bond is also witness to a mysterious group whose followers are marked on both of their hands with an 'M' (double M), which James eventually learns is the mark of the Millenaria, a defunct secret Italian society that has had plans throughout history to restore the Roman Empire.
Once arriving in Sardinia, James and his classmates begin a tour of the country to learn its history, during which Bond is poisoned (though the reader is not aware of it at the time) and almost killed. To get away and relax, Bond departs from his classmates to spend time with his Cousin Victor, his artist friend Poliponi, and his teenage servant Mauro. While there Victor is host to the Count Ugo Carnifex, a man who is later identified as the leader of the reorganized Millenaria that plans once again to restore the glory of the Roman Empire. Carnifex achieves the funding for such a task, as well as for his palace located high in the mountains of Sardinia, and his lavish lifestyle, by hiring pirates such as Zoltan the Magyar to plunder valuable items; however, Carnifex is a fraud who cannot actually afford to compensate his "employees". Additionally, when Zoltan arrives at Carnifex's palace, Carnifex declares ownership over Amy Goodenough, much to the great annoyance of Zoltan, whom during his travels to Sardinia had formed a unique and strange bond with Amy.
Later Bond is once again reunited with his classmates who are now in a town near Carnifex's palace. During one night, Bond sneaks into the palace and finds Amy's cell, but is unable to rescue her and instead informs Peter Haight. Things go bad, however, when Haight reveals himself to be a loyal servant of Carnifex and had earlier attempted to poison and kill James for asking too many questions about the Millenaria. Carnifex subsequently tortures James by allowing the mosquitoes to have a field day (Carnifex betting that at some point one of them will be a carrier of malaria) while James is stripped of his shirt and strapped down, thus preventing him from escaping, killing any mosquitoes feeding and scratching itches, bringing the pain to a maximum. Bond is later rescued by Mauro's sister, Vendetta, who kisses him consistently.
Having put up with Carnifex for as long as he could bear, Zoltan turns against Carnifex by flooding his palace leaving it in ruins. Carnifex's sea plane is swept away by the water and flies straight into the count, killing him. Just prior, Bond sneaks into the palace with the help of Vendetta, much to her dismay, to rescue Amy. Vendetta is reluctant to let Bond go and attacks him. Bond convinces her not to follow and, for good measure, he gives her a kiss of his own. After the destruction of the palace, Bond and Amy return to Victor Delacroix's villa, but are ambushed on the way by Peter Haight. Bond and Amy are saved, however, by Zoltan the Magyar who gives his life for their protection in the process. The grief-stricken Amy hugs Bond for comfort.
Amy and Bond arrive at Victor's villa. After skinny dipping and lying on the beach, they go up together. However, Jana Carnifex, Ugo's sister, is waiting for them. Bond tricks her, however, by jumping off the rock, while Victor distracts her. She slips and falls into a bed of sea urchins, where she finally dies from the pain and poison. As Bond and Amy wade to the surface, Amy suddenly steps on a sea urchin. Bond knows exactly how to remove it.
Awards and nominations[edit]
Blood Fever won a Blue Peter Book Award in 2006.
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]

External links[edit]
Review: A More Mature Young Bond
Official Young Bond website
The Young Bond Dossier
CommanderBond.net Blood Fever coverage
Blood Fever on Bondpedia.net


[hide]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
James Bond novels and short stories


James Bond series



Ian Fleming

Casino Royale (1953) ·
 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
 Moonraker (1955) ·
 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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SilverFin
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SilverFin


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Puffin Books 2005 British paperback edition.

Author
Charlie Higson
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
Young Bond
Genre
Spy novel
Publisher
Puffin Books

Publication date
 3 March 2005
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
372 pp (first edition, paperback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-14-131859-7 (first edition, paperback)
OCLC
59011406
Followed by
Blood Fever
SilverFin is the first novel in the Young Bond series that depicts Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s. It was written by Charlie Higson and released in the United Kingdom on March 3, 2005 by Puffin Books in conjunction with a large marketing campaign; a Canadian release of the same edition occurred in late March. The United States edition, which was slightly edited for content, was released on April 27, 2005 by Miramax Books.
SilverFin's success spawned a mobile game published by PlayerOne on January 5, 2006 in conjunction with the release of the second novel in the Young Bond series, Blood Fever. The game features 3 locations, 15 levels, and a variety of enemies that the player must avoid.
Because Ian Fleming never explicitly said when James Bond was born, Ian Fleming Publications and Charlie Higson chose the year 1920 as his birth year. SilverFin takes place in 1933.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Graphic Novel
3 2011 Special Editions
4 Bond and book facts
5 Publication history
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

Plot summary[edit]
SilverFin is broken up into three parts in addition to a prologue. In the prologue, an unnamed school boy is attacked by eels, attracted to a bleeding fishhook cut, while fishing in Loch Silverfin. Then from nowhere a mysterious eel-like man runs and jumps into the loch and saves him.
The first part of the book chronicles James Bond's starting attendance at Eton College, which is one of the best schools in England. There he meets Pritpal, the son of an Indian Maharajah. The two become good friends and live together in the dorms along with another of his friends, a Chinese boy named Tommy Chong. Bond also comes into contact with George Hellebore, an American bully three years older than James. George's father, Lord Randolph Hellebore is an armament dealer who sold weapons to various countries after World War I. It is later revealed that Lord Hellebore knew Bond's father, Andrew Bond, who also sold arms while working for Vickers after the war. Lord Hellebore arrives at Eton to direct and host a tournament cup ("Hellebore Cup") for the boys. The competition is divided into three events: shooting, swimming, and running, It is rumoured that George Hellebore is supposed to win, but an unexpected rival named Andrew Carlton manages to beat him. Bond places seventh in shooting, fourth in his heat in swimming (which was not good enough to qualify for the final race), and first in cross country running. During the running sequence Lord Hellebore attempts to help his son cheat so that he could win the tournament; however, Bond after seeing George take a shortcut a first time decides to follow George the next time, and being the superior runner then passes him to win the race. George tries to trip James with his leg but loses his balance and falls into a mud puddle. Because Bond won first in running, Andrew Carlton is the winner and George Hellebore came in third place in the cup overall, which was unacceptable by his father's standard.
The second part of the novel details the spring break. James travels to Scotland to meet with his Aunt Charmian who is visiting Bond's ailing uncle, Max, who is dying of cancer. Both Charmian and Max are siblings of Bond's father, Andrew. It is also in this part of the novel that Higson reveals the details of Bond's parents' death, first mentioned in Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice. While travelling to Scotland, Bond befriends an older boy named "Red"(for his bright red hair) Kelly who is travelling to the same place in search for his missing cousin, Alfie who disappeared whilst out fishing (thus tying in with the prologue). James also meets a girl called Wilder who loves riding horses. While staying at his uncle's place Bond learns how to drive his uncle's car and finds out that his uncle was a spy during World War I. Bond also learns that Lord Randolph Hellebore owns a large stretch of land nearby that includes Loch Silverfin. He later meets back up with Red and ventures to Hellebore's estate where the two encounter Mike "Meatpacker" Moran, a Pinkerton's detective from New York City sent to investigate Lord Randolph Hellebore at the behest of Hellebore's wife, who suspects Lord Randolph of having killed his brother, her lover, Algar. However, they later discover the detective dead and eaten in Loch Silverfin, which is full of eels.
The boys plan to infiltrate the castle by climbing a tree, but Red falls out of the tree and breaks his leg, and is unable to continue. James succeeds in entering the castle. After snooping around he bumps his head and is captured. When James regains consciousness he is tied to a table and Lord Hellebore begins to interrogate him. Hellebore explains to James that he and his brother set out to create better and stronger soldiers by manipulating the endocrine system. Because it is difficult to find humans to test on, Algar tested the first "SilverFin serum" on himself. Initially it worked, but later an increased dosage transformed Algar physically, giving him a distorted body that is eel-like. Lord Hellebore subsequently perfected the serum and was able to turn it into a pill. The pill essentially acts as a steroid making anyone who uses it more agile, stronger, etc. for a temporary set of time. Hellebore even tests this pill on his own son (as James had witnessed during the cross-country race). Lord Hellebore reveals that he tested the SilverFin serum on Alfie Kelly, the boy whom Bond is searching for, but Kelly's heart gave out and he died. The wastes poured into Loch Silverfin made the eels vicious. Later Bond is also drugged with the SilverFin serum and locked in a cell. Bond, however, uses his enhanced abilities to escape the cell and the estate by finding an underwater entrance to Loch Silverfin and swimming through, with the help of Wilder Lawless (who kisses him at some point), only to return shortly later with George Hellebore as an ally to destroy Lord Randolph's lab. George has increasingly become upset with his dreadful father and his work, and secretly wishes to be with his mother more than anything. The two destroy the lab and are later confronted by Lord Hellebore who intends to kill them both. Hellebore attacks them with a double-barreled shotgun. However, Algar intervenes at the last moment and forces himself and Hellebore into Loch Silverfin. Algar is wounded by his brother's shotgun and his blood attracts the eels who kill both the brothers while they are fighting.
James collapses due to a lung infection and exhaustion shortly after and for ten days lies unconscious. When he regains consciousness he learns that George has moved back to America to be with his mother, and that his Uncle Max has died, leaving James his car.
Graphic Novel[edit]
A graphic novel adaptation of SilverFin written by Charlie Higson and illustrated by artist Kev Walker was released by Puffin Books in the UK on 2 October 2008[1] and by Disney Hyperion in the U.S. on 18 May 2010.[2]
2011 Special Editions[edit]
On 5 May 2011, Puffin Books released two special editions of SilverFin. First is a numbered, Limited Edition hardcover with a new introduction by Charlie Higson. It had a glow in the dark cover and came in an engraved Perspex slipcase. All copies were signed by Charlie Higson and will be limited to 1,000 copies worldwide. Puffin also released a new Special Edition paperback with "all new material" and a redesigned cover.[3]
Bond and book facts[edit]
SilverFin begins with a similar opening to Ian Fleming's Casino Royale. Fleming: "The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning"
Higson: "The smell and noise and confusion of a hallway full of schoolboys can be quite awful at twenty past seven in the morning."
Bond's Aunt Charmian drives an identical Bentley to one Bond drives in Casino Royale and in subsequent books. Bond also inherits his Uncle's 1.5 liter Bamford & Martin Sidevalve Short Chassis Tourer. Bamford & Martin later became Aston Martin.
During a scene at a circus the announcer presents "The Mighty Donovan". "The Mighty O'Donovan" is Donovan "Red" Grant's father, referenced in From Russia, with Love[1].
When released in Germany in August 2005, SilverFin was retitled Silent Waters Are Deadly.
A special signed limited edition hardcover was released exclusively at Waterstone's Bookstores in the UK on October 6, 2005.
The U.S. edition of the book was edited to remove descriptions that were considered too racy for young readers. One such example includes a description of Wilder Lawless's legs during a tussle between herself and Bond.
Higson's original working title was Out of Breath, but it was felt this sounded too much like an Elmore Leonard novel. Several permutations on "Silver" were tried, including: "SilverBack", "SilverSkin", "SilverHead", and "SilverFist", before settling on "SilverFin". [2]
A hellebore is a poisonous plant often thought to resemble a rose, making a suitable name for the handsome but evil Lord Hellebore.
Lord Hellebore tells his son while they are hunting that they are a lot like Indians, and, when his son kills a deer, he says he is a true Red Indian. This is a reference to Ian Fleming's World War II days, where his soldiers were nicknamed 'Fleming's Indians'. References to Red Indians also appear in the novel Casino Royale, where Le Chiffre calls Bond a boy playing Red Indians, and on the last page, where Bond scolds himself for carelessly playing Red Indians while his enemies had been working right next to him.
Publication history[edit]
3 March 2005, Puffin Books, paperback, first British edition
3 March 2005, Puffin Books, abridged audiobook, first British edition Narrated by Charlie Higson.
2 April 2005, Miramax Books, hardcover, first American edition
6 October 2005, Puffin Books, hardcover, first British edition Limited edition. 1000 copies numbered and signed by Charlie Higson.
1 April 2006, Miramax Books, paperback, first American edition
11 April 2006, Listening Library, unabridged audiobook, first American edition Narrated by Nathaniel Parker.

See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "SilverFin The Graphic Novel released in UK". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved October 2, 2008.
2.Jump up ^ "SilverFin Graphic Novel released today in the US". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved June 5, 2010.
3.Jump up ^ "EXCLUSIVE: NEW YOUNG BOND SILVERFIN SPECIAL EDITIONS". The Book Bond. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
External links[edit]
Official Young Bond website
CommanderBond.net interviews Charlie Higson
The Young Bond Dossier
MI6.co.uk - Full SilverFin coverage


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Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


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"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
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 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
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James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007
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James Bond: The Authorized Biography


James Bond, The authorized biography.jpeg
First edition cover

Author
John Pearson
Cover artist
Bartholomew Wilkins and Partners (Sidgwick & Jackson ed.)
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy novel
Publisher
Sidgwick & Jackson

Publication date
 1973
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
317 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
0-283-97946-1 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
2736297

Dewey Decimal
 823/.9/14
LC Class
PZ4.P36247 Jam PR6066.E2
James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (laterJames Bond: The Authorised Biography) by John Pearson, is a fictional biography of James Bond, first published in 1973; Pearson also wrote the biography The Life of Ian Fleming (1966).
The Authorized Biography of 007 was not commissioned by Glidrose Publications. It originated as a spoof novel for publisher Sidgwick & Jackson, however, Pearson knew Peter Janson-Smith, the Glidrose chairman, who gave permission for the work to be published. Consequently, this is the only James Bond book from Glidrose, between 1953 and 1987, not first published by Jonathan Cape, additionally, it is the only Bond novel with a shared copyright credit; Pearson is the only Bond novelist so recognised.
The novel's canonical status as biography is debatable. Some fans consider it canon with Ian Fleming's James Bond novel series, while other aficionados consider it apocryphal. Elements of the biography are contradicted by "official" Bond fiction, notably Charlie Higson's Young Bond series, which suggests that James Bond was born in Switzerland, as opposed to Pearson's suggestion that Bond was born in Wattenscheid, Germany. Unlike the later Bond novels by John Gardner and Raymond Benson, which are not of (although still based upon) Fleming's continuity, such is not the case with Pearson's book, along with the continuation novel Colonel Sun, by Kingsley Amis, (to which Pearson refers). As those books occur in the same time as Fleming's Bond novels, their being canonical with Fleming's books is debatable, yet Pan Books one British publisher of Bond novels, includes Pearson's book, James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, as an official series entry of their first paperback edition series.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Publication history
3 See also
4 Notes
5 External links

Plot summary[edit]
The premise of James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 is that James Bond is based upon a real MI6 agent. Fleming hinted so in You Only Live Twice, in Bond's obituary, that his adventures were the basis of a series of "sensational novels"; illustrating this contention, that novel's comic strip adaptation used covers from Fleming's James Bond novels.
Writing autobiographically, Pearson begins the story with his own recruitment to MI6. Already, the department had assigned Ian Fleming to write novels based upon the real agent; Fleming was to be truthful about the agent's adventures. The idea was to hide the truth, of Bond's exploits, in plain sight; along the way, Fleming created fictional tales, such as Moonraker, to keep the Soviets guessing what was fact and what was not. Pearson's also incorporates Fleming's flippant claim to not having written The Spy Who Loved Me, but that Vivienne Michel mysteriously sent him the manuscript.
Based upon the success of his Fleming biography, The Life of Ian Fleming (1966), MI6 instruct Pearson to write 007's biography; he is introduced to a retired James Bond — who is in his fifties, yet healthy, sun-tanned, and with Honeychile Ryder, the heroine of Dr. No. Most of James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 is Bond telling his life story, including school and first MI6 missions, referring to most every novel and short story and, notably, to Colonel Sun, the Robert Markham series-continuation novel. At conclusion, as Bond rushes to another mission (contrary to mandatory retirement), John Pearson is invited to assume Ian Fleming's scribal duties, like Dr. Watson assumed with Sherlock Holmes.
Publication history[edit]
UK first hardback edition: 1973 Sidgwick & Jackson
U.S. first hardback edition: 1974 William Morrow & Company
UK first paperback edition: 1975 Pan Books
U.S. first paperback edition: March 1975 Pyramid Books
UK hardcover reprint: 1985 Granada
UK paperback reprint: 1986 Grafton
U.S. paperback reprint: 1986 Grove Press
Out of print since the 1990s, a reprinting of the book was released in 2008.[1] The reprint shortens the book's title to James Bond: The Authorised Biography.[2]
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ 'James Bond: The Authorized Biography Of 007' Pushed To October - James Bond 007 - CommanderBond.net - James Bond At Its Best at commanderbond.net
2.Jump up ^ Cover Art For 'James Bond: The Authorized Biography' Paperback Reprint Revealed - James Bond 007 - CommanderBond.net - James Bond At Its Best at commanderbond.net
External links[edit]
A look at the least known James Bond novel
Origins of The Authorized Biography of 007


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Casino Royale (1953) ·
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 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½
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The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½
JamesBondJunior003.jpg
1967 first edition cover

Author
R. D. Mascott
Illustrator
Christopher Chamberlain
Cover artist
Jane Hood
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy novel
Publisher
Jonathan Cape

Publication date
 1967
Media type
Print (Hardcover)
Pages
175
OCLC
461864
The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ is a 1967 James Bond spin-off novel carrying the Glidrose Productions copyright. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Jonathan Cape publishing company in 1967 and later in 1968 in the United States by Random House. The American edition was retitled 003½: The Adventures of James Bond Junior. The novel was written under the pseudonym R. D. Mascott; the real name of the author to this day has never been officially revealed by the current owners of the Ian Fleming Estate (i.e., Ian Fleming Publications a.k.a. Glidrose) or Eon Productions (Danjaq), who owns the screen rights to the novel.
Although the novel is based around a character who is the nephew of James Bond, in Ian Fleming's own novels Bond in fact was an only child and indeed an orphan, however, unbeknownst to agent 007 he does have a son as told in You Only Live Twice.
In 1966 Harry Saltzman announced a television series about a ten year old who fought SPECTRE that could have been based on 003½ but nothing became of it.[1] At some other point Bond film producers Saltzman and Broccoli planned to make either a theatrical feature or a TV series based on the 003½ premise. The producers discussed story ideas with several unidentified screenwriters in London.[2]
The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ is considered a failed attempt at launching a youth-oriented line of fiction aimed at 8 to 14 year olds. A moderately successful television series of the same name was launched in 1991, produced by Eon Productions / Danjaq. The success of the show spawned numerous novelizations, a video game, and comic books. Unrelated to 003½, Ian Fleming Publications began publishing a successful youth-oriented line of Young Bond adventures featuring James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s beginning in 2005.
Although an officially licensed spin-off from the James Bond series, its place within the canon of the books—if any—has never been established.


Contents  [hide]
1 The author
2 Plot summary
3 Characters
4 Reception
5 See also
6 Footnotes

The author[edit]
It is not known who wrote The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½, although many authors have been named as possibilities including Roald Dahl and Kingsley Amis. Amis is usually seen as unlikely since a year later he released Colonel Sun under the pseudonym Robert Markham, however, unlike R. D. Mascott, Amis's authoring of Colonel Sun was never a secret. Amis's writing style is also not similar to Mascott. Roald Dahl on the other hand does share some similarities specifically with one book he wrote in 1975, Danny, the Champion of the World. In 1967, Roald Dahl completed the screenplay for You Only Live Twice for Eon Productions, the same year The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ was published. Although there is evidence to suggest Dahl may have written 003½, there is equally as much evidence to suggest he did not.[citation needed]
Several authorities attribute the novel to Arthur Calder-Marshall.[3] Calder-Marshall wrote a number of similar books especially in style and his descriptions of characters and environments in his books The Magic of My Youth (1951) and The Scarlet Boy (1961). It has also been suggested that the initials R. D. are a play on the name Arthur, which is typically shortened to Artie.[4]
Plot summary[edit]
The plot follows James Bond Junior while he tries to uncover what is going on at Hazeley Hall. He and Sheelagh Smith, his "girlfriend" follow the clues of this mystery, but the information is given to the Commander of the police when James is injured. The Commander ultimately gets the credit for solving the case and threatens James if he says anything.
Characters[edit]
James Bond (Junior): son of David Bond, nephew of James Bond 007. Has his own gang of schoolmates, the "Pride of Lions". James' housemaster and Dr. Hartshorn dub him 003 1/2. Writes to his famous uncle who sends him a sheath knife.
Mrs. Raggles: James's caregiver while his parents are in Dar-es-Salaam. At the climax, she contacts Commander Sir Cuthbert Conningtower about what James discovers at Hazeley Hall.
Mrs. Frame: former owner of Hazeley Hall. Had given James exclusive access to the bothy. James had stored his goods in there. She dies in her sleep at start of story.
Mr. Merck: German. Mammoth build. Broad spatulate nose, curly hair, large lips. Close-cropped ginger hair, curly ginger beard, ginger hairs on the back of his fists. Speaks in a high squeaky voice. The new owner of Hazeley Hall. Steals £2m gold bullion en route from the Soviet Union to Britain at Gatwick airport.
Sheelagh Smith: child, slightly younger than James. She lives at Hazeley Hall with Merck. Draws and sketches. Her mother Katherine Smith is in Holloway Prison doing a six month stretch for shoplifting. James entices her with sketching materials to get inside Hazeley Hall Manor so that he can get his goods from the bothy.
Maureen Gubb (Auntie Mo): Red-headed slattern. Thin, beaky face and flabby neck. Merck's cook and housekeeper. Sheelagh Smith's caregiver.
Donal: Merck's henchman. Tall, muscular, barrel chested. Wears track suits. Auntie Mo's beau.
Paddie: Merck's henchman. Bandy-legged. "A squirt".
Commander Sir Cuthbert Conningtower: Ex-naval-Intelligence author of Spies I've Espied. Drives an XK120 Jaguar. Complexion the colour of a half-ripe blackberry. Drinks gin. Wears dentures. Philanderer. Steals credit for James's investigative work.
Audrey Wedderburn: Actress. Plays "Chastity Carstairs" on ITV's Stormbusters. Breeds Guard Dogs. Sells them to Merck. Assists Commander Sir Cuthbert Conningtower. Sheelagh sketches her at Hazeley Hall. James assumes that there may be more between them then stopping crime. James sees her late one night with Conningtower in his Jaguar.
Lady Conningtower: Commander Sir Cuthbert Conningtower's wife. Once beautiful, now wrinkled, but still proud and noble, even when anxious.
"Pride of Lions": James's own gang. The Pride used to play in Hazeley Hall's ammunition dump. They resent Merck fencing-in Hazeley Hall so they retaliate with guerilla warfare: put silver sand in petrol tanks, puncture tires with one-inch carpet nails, put water in the oil tank, attempt - but fail - to poison guard dogs. On James's advice, the Pride launch "Operation Barker": distract Merck's guard dogs all night so that James can sneak into Hazeley Hall. While there, James sees Merck in a police car and his men in military uniforms driving camouflaged Bedford trucks as they set out to steal the gold bullion.
Squirrel Joram: "Pride of Lions" member. Comes from a family of poachers. Current King of the Pride after James went away for a year to prep school. Squirrel resents James returning, fears James will reclaim leadership of the Pride. James and Squirrel had been best of friends; they fall out over Sheelagh Smith. James realizes that Squirrel poisoned Sheelagh's Alsatian puppy. Squirrel Joram tells James that Sheelagh is a "nit-ridden gyppo". They kick James out of the "Pride of Lions".
Bill Asher: "Pride of Lions" member. Chemist's son.
Charlie North: "Pride of Lions" member.
Jon Ling: Boy Scout, and James's replacement in the "Pride of Lions".
Bobbie Maws: "Pride of Lions" member.
Alfie Maws: Bobbie Maws' father. Publican ("Lion and Unicorn"). Gangly man with a raw face part-paralysed down one side. Suspects stolen gold bullion is at Hazeley Hall. The "Pride of Lions" hold their meetings in the "Lion and Unicorn".
Mrs. (Nance) Maws: Alfie Maws' wife. Bobbie Maws' mother. "Lion and Unicorn" cook. Won't let her husband contact police about theory Merck has stolen gold bullion at Hazeley Hall. Police have been snooping around their pub and troubling them for serving drinks after hours.
Nobby Scales: Postman. Jack of all trades. Knows everybody's business. Uses GPO van to kill one of Merck's Doberman Pinschers.
Captain David Bond: James Bond Junior's father. (James Bond 007's brother.) Airline pilot. Inherited Monkshill estate (in Beacon Hill on the Kent-Sussex border) from his own father three years prior. At story's end Hazeley Hall comes on the market again and Captain David Bond buys the stables, the walled garden and the bothy. Captain Bond shows a profit on the sale of Monkshill.
Mrs. Bond: James Bond Junior's mother. Her sister Penny is in the hospital so she and her husband David Bond fly to Dar-es-Salaam to look after Penny's kids.
Les Bottome: Daily Clarion crime reporter.
Canon Wycherly-Pidgeon: Vicar.
Mr. Hignett, B.Sc. Manchester: Headmaster of the Secondary Modern. Face like dough with currants for eyes. Aspirates and drops his aitches.
Sergeant Daintree: Constabulary. According to Alfie Maws, Daintree is a "six-foot-three strip of eighteen-carat ignorance." Merck complains that Hignett's students are suspected of vandalising Merck's land rovers.
Satan: Merck's Alsatian (male). Sheelagh one of dog's handlers. James befriends dog with Sheelagh's help.
Cerberus: Merck's Alsatian (female). Sheelagh one of dog's handlers. James befriends dog with Sheelagh's help.
Mr. Dash: Mrs. Frame's gardener.
Mr. Manvell (and daughter): Veterinary; owns a kennel on lot next to the Hazeley property. Drives a Land-Rover. Nearly collides with Lady Conningtower driving her husband's Jaguar late one night.
Dr. Hartshorn: tends to injured James at book's end. Diagnoses James with pleurisy, double pneumonia and a torn ligament.
Miss Hubbard: local children's author. Claims she has fairies not only at the bottom of her garden but also at the top.
Reception[edit]
Claire Tomalin in The Observer said, "the story is a small perfect triumph in the hands of a master. This is probably the best bet for Christmas if you want to hand out spinal rather than moral chills."[5]
The Library Journal said, "This imported British spin-off from the adult series doesn't exude literary quality but is a notch above what might be expected. After a sluggish beginning in which Bond family relationships and the basis for the story's intrigue are explained, the adventures of the youthful 003 1/2 (James Bond's nephew) gain momentum as he ferrets out the mystery of a heavily"guarded estate and runs up against gold robbers and guard dogs. The crooks are finally apprehended in a satisfying, albeit predictable manner. Flashes of irony and some humor enliven this otherwise ordinary adventure story."[6]
Ursula Robertshaw writing for The Illustrated London News complained that the book is "Very definitely for boys. It's all very exciting, but racy and rather bloody, and so not to be given to the sons of very prim parents."[7]
Children's fiction critic Margery Fisher was more critical: "003 1/2 seems to be satire on three levels. First, with its bullion robbers and the indomitable amateur boy who cracks the code, as it were, the book sends up the junior thriller; young Bond with his blacked and infra-red camera and judo principles ("Don't go against the enemy, go with him") is a remote cousin of Miss Blyton's water-pistol-carrying kids. Then (and I am less certain of the author's intention here) the fast-moving events and casual cruelty of the story may be a satire on the exploits of Jimmy's notorious uncle; if so, it is a satire many readers won't see or won't want to. Mascott has given us glimpses of the sordid and a nearer approach to danger (and one brilliant female character drawn in the round). But one swallow doesn't make a summer and all Sheelagh's gibes and kisses and dirty clothes don't make this a genuinely realistic book."[8]
Punch critic Marjorie D. Lawrie praised Christopher Chamberlain's "satisfying illustrations", but otherwise had no opinion of the book[9]
See also[edit]

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Footnotes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Brosnan, John. James Bond in the Cinema (1972 ed.). Tantivy Press. p. 164.
2.Jump up ^ Weiler, A.H. (10 July 1966). "Pint-Sized Bonded Stuff on Tap". The New York Times. p. 81.
3.Jump up ^ Palmer, Martyn. Rider on the storm; The Times (London, England), 15 Jul 2006. p.8
4.Jump up ^ "Who is R. D. Mascott?". The Search for R. D. Mascott. Archived from the original on 17 June 2006. Retrieved 28 June 2006.
5.Jump up ^ Tomalin, Claire (3 Dec 1967). "Children's Books: Orphans in the Storm". The Observer. p. 26.
6.Jump up ^ Gillespie, John (1969). Library Journal 94: 80.
7.Jump up ^ Robertshaw, Ursula (9 December 1967). "Books of the Week: Junior bookshelf for Christmas: 2 - For nine-year-olds and upwards". The Illustrated London News 251 (6688-6700). p. 32.
8.Jump up ^ Fisher, Margery (1966 [sic]). Growing Point 5–6. .
9.Jump up ^ Lawrie, Marjorie D. (6 December 1967). "Small Wonder". Punch 253 (6639): 875.


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 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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James Bond and Moonraker
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James Bond and Moonraker
MoonrakerMovieNovel.jpg
1979 Triad Panther British paperback edition

Author
Christopher Wood
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Jonathan Cape, Triad Panther

Publication date
 1979
Media type
Hardback, Paperback
Pages
222 pp
James Bond and Moonraker is a novelization by Christopher Wood of the James Bond film Moonraker. Its name was changed to avoid confusion with Fleming's novel. It was released in 1979.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Background
3 Reception
4 Publication history
5 References

Plot[edit]
British Secret Service agent James Bond, codename 007, must prevent Sir Hugo Drax's plan to murder the entire human race and then restart humanity from outer space.
Background[edit]
The screenplay of Moonraker differed so much from Ian Fleming's novel that Eon Productions authorized the film's screenwriter, Christopher Wood to write a novelization based upon the film, as he had done for The Spy Who Loved Me.
As with the first novelization, Wood had no input from, or communication with Glidrose Publications. Instead he worked directly with Jonathan Cape publisher Tom Maschler.[2]
Unlike Wood's first novelization, which showed a significant difference to the actual film, in James Bond and Moonraker, Wood writes a virtually direct novelization of the screenplay.[1] The only noticeable differences between the novelization and the screenplay for Moonraker is that there is no mention of Dolly, Jaws' girlfriend, and his characterization stays true to Wood's description as being a mute. In addition, at the conclusion of the Venetian canal chase sequence, Bond's gondola does not sprout a flotation device and ascend to St. Mark's square as it does in the film.
Reception[edit]
Wood's second novelization was barely reviewed. Syndicated columnist Bob Greene was scathing. He said the novelization was "dreary and schlocky and juvenile; it lacks all of the wonderful tension and personality of the original Fleming book. James Bond would be embarrassed to be in it. [...] In the meantime, shed a tear for Ian Fleming and James Bond. And don't, under any circumstances, buy the "Moonraker" you see in the stores today. Hold out for the real thing. If you can't find it in the attic, come over and I'll lend you mine."[3]
The Los Angeles Times critic claimed that Ian Fleming "would have cringed at the writing to be found in this book."[4]
Despite this, Wood's novel became a bestseller,[5] remaining on the London Times bestseller list for some time.[6]
After the release of the novel, Eon Productions chose not to commission novelizations of the next few Bond films; not until Licence to Kill ten years later in 1989, would there be a Bond film novelization.
Publication history[edit]
UK first hardback edition: 1979 Jonathan Cape
UK first paperback edition: 1979 Triad Panther
U.S. first paperback edition: 1979 Jove Books
UK first hardcover large print edition: 1980 Chivers Press
French first edition: 1979 Fleuve noir James Bond 007 et le Moonraker trans. André Gard
German first edition: 1979 Goldmann Moonraker streng geheim: 007 erobert d. Weltraum trans. Tony Westermayr
Dutch first edition: 1979 A. W. Bruna James Bond en de Moonraker trans. David Brisk
Spanish first edition: 1979 Bruguera Moonraker trans. José M Pomares
Japanese first edition: 1979 Hayakawa Zero zero sebun to mūnreikā trans. Kazuo Inoue
Italian first edition: 1995 Mondadori Moonraker: Operazione Spazio trans.Stefano Di Marino
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b "Christopher Wood Interview". MI6-HQ.COM. February 6, 2005. Retrieved November 11, 2008.
2.Jump up ^ Wood, Christopher (2006). James Bond, The Spy I Loved. Twenty First Century Publishers. p. 167. ISBN 9781904433538.
3.Jump up ^ Greene, Bob (30 Jul 1979). "The Guns of James Bond Still Bang but Words Whimper". The Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, Virginia). p. 2.
4.Jump up ^ "A Yank Who Couldn't Tell a Lie?". Los Angeles Times. 23 August 1979. p. E25.
5.Jump up ^ Life Books (2012). LIFE: 50 Years of James Bond. Des Moines: Time Inc. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-61893-031-6.
6.Jump up ^ Rye, Graham (August 1979). "007 News: Christopher Wood’s James Bond & Moonraker novelization climbing best seller list". OO7 (2).


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Ian Fleming

Casino Royale (1953) ·
 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
 Moonraker (1955) ·
 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me
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James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me


SpyWhoLovedMeMovieNovel.jpg
1977 Triad/Panther British paperback edition

Author
Christopher Wood
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Jonathan Cape, Triad Panther

Publication date
 1977
Media type
Hardback, Paperback
James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me is the official novelization of the Eon film, The Spy Who Loved Me.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Background
3 Differences between novelization and screenplay
4 Publication history
5 Reception
6 See also
7 References

Plot[edit]
MI6 agent James Bond 007 must team up with Soviet Agent XXX, Anya Amasova, in order to investigate Sigmund Stromberg, the owner of an ocean liner company. They uncover the villain's dastardly plot to use hijacked submarines from the US and USSR to provoke a war between the two countries and then rebuild civilization under the sea.
Background[edit]
When Ian Fleming sold the film rights to the James Bond novels to Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, he only gave permission for the title The Spy Who Loved Me to be used. Since the screenplay for the film had nothing to do with Fleming's original novel, Eon Productions, for the first time, authorised that a novelization be written based upon the script. According to Ian Fleming's literary agent Peter Janson-Smith, "We had no hand in [the Christopher Wood novelizations] other than we told the film people that we were going to exert our legal right to handle the rights in the books. They chose Christopher Wood because he was one of the screenwriters at the time, and they decided what he would be paid. We got our instructions on that, but from then on, these books-of-the-films became like any other Bond novel—we controlled the publication rights."[1]
This would also be the first regular Bond novel published since Colonel Sun nearly a decade earlier. Christopher Wood, himself a novelist, and who co-authored the screenplay with Richard Maibaum, was commissioned to write the book, which was given the title James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me. Wood would also novelize the screenplay for the next Bond film, Moonraker in 1979.
Differences between novelization and screenplay[edit]
The novelization and the screenplay, although both written by Wood, are somewhat different. In the novelization SMERSH is still active and still after James Bond. Their part in the novelization begins during the "pre-title credits" sequence in which Bond is escaping from a cabin on the top of Aiguille du Mort, a mountain near the town of Chamonix. After the mysterious death of Fekkish, SMERSH appears yet again, this time capturing and torturing Bond for the whereabouts of the microfilm that retains plans for a submarine tracking system (Bond escapes after killing two of the interrogators). The appearance of SMERSH conflicts the latter half of Fleming's Bond novels, in which SMERSH is mentioned to have been put out of operation. Members of SMERSH from the novelization include the Bond girl Anya Amasova and her lover Sergei Borzov as well as Colonel-General Niktin, a character from Fleming's novel From Russia, with Love who has since become the head of SMERSH.
Other differences include the villain, Karl Stromberg, being renamed as Sigmund Stromberg. The change of Stromberg's given name as well as the existence of SMERSH may be in some way due to the controversy over Thunderball, in which Kevin McClory was made aware of certain plot points of the film The Spy Who Loved Me. At one point the villain of the film was to be Ernst Stavro Blofeld and his organisation SPECTRE; however, this was changed to avoid a possible lawsuit over the rights to this character, which originated from the novel Thunderball.
Publication history[edit]
UK first hardback edition: July 1977 Jonathan Cape
UK first paperback edition: July 1977 Triad Panther
U.S. first paperback edition: 1977 Warner Books The Spy Who Loved Me
French trade paperback edition: 1977 Julliard L'Espion qui m'aimait trans: France-Marie Watkins
French mass market paperback: 1978 Presses pocket L'Espion qui m'aimait trans: France-Marie Watkins
Dutch first edition: 1977 Bruna The Spy Who Loved Me trans: Ernest Benéder
German first edition: 1977 or 1978 Goldmann James Bond und sein grösster Fall
Norse first edition: 1978 Dreyer James Bond, spionen som elsket meg, trans: Axel S. Seeberg
Spanish first edition: 1979 Plaza & Janes La espia que me amo trans: R. M. Bassols
Italian first edition: 1995 Mondadori Agente 007, la spia che mi amava trans: Stefano Di Marino
Japanese first edition: unknown year, Hayakawa, trans: Kazuo Inoue
Reception[edit]
The paperback edition became an instant bestseller in the UK, staying on the British bestsellers list for several months.[2]
Critics were mixed though most noted Wood's talented writing. Marghanita Laski, writing in The Listener, called Wood "an apparently promising thriller writer struggling to emerge from obligatory bits of set-piece nastiness."[3] Kingsley Amis wrote in The New Statesman that, despite several reservations, "Mr Wood has bravely tackled his formidable task, that of turning a typical late Bond film, which must be basically facetious, into a novel after Ian Fleming, which must be basically serious. ... the descriptions are adequate and the action writing excellent."[4]
T. J. Binyon, writing in The Times Literary Supplement said, "Christopher Wood's style is lusher than Ian Fleming's, and teeters throughout on the brink of parody."[5] Maurice Richardson in The Observer called "The latest licensed ersatz Bond" a "[s]uitable silly season read."[6]
Australian novelist Eileen Alderton, writing for the Australian Women's Weekly called it "a gutsy, punchy novel" that has "as much action as anyone could take."[7]
In their guide The Bond Files, Andy Lane and Paul Simpson say Wood's novel "counts as a decent Bond novel in its own right, and is certainly more stylish than many of the later volumes."[8]
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Benson, Raymond (2010). "Classified Dossier: James Bond's (literary) agent". Crime Spree Magazine (March–April).
2.Jump up ^ "Vintage Chart; You're reading". The Times (London, England). 5 August 2006. p. 4. For the week of 7 August 1977, the novelization was at number 6 on the London Times paperback bestsellers list.
3.Jump up ^ Laski, Marghanita (8 December 1977). "Crime oddities". The Listener. p. 762.
4.Jump up ^ Amis, Kingsley (1 July 1977). "James Bond, the Spy Who Loved Me". New Statesman. p. 25.
5.Jump up ^ Binyon, T.J. (21 October 1977). "Criminal proceedings". The Times Literary Supplement (3943) (London, England). p. 1249.
6.Jump up ^ Richardson, Maurice (7 Aug 1977). "Crime Ration". The Observer. p. 29.
7.Jump up ^ Alderton, Eileen (25 October 1977). "Books: James Bond Loves On". The Australian Women's Weekly. p. 169. Available online.
8.Jump up ^ Lane & Simpson 2002, p. 207.


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Ian Fleming

Casino Royale (1953) ·
 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
 Moonraker (1955) ·
 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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Solo
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First edition cover

Author
William Boyd
Country
United Kingdom
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Jonathan Cape

Publication date
 26 September 2013
Media type
Print (hardcover, e-book, audio)
Pages
336 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
978-0-224-09747-5 (first edition, hardback)
Solo is a James Bond continuation novel written by William Boyd. It was published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 26 September 2013 in hardback, e-book and audio editions, and in the US by HarperCollins on 8 October 2013.
The plot centres on Bond's mission to the civil war in the fictional country of Zanzarim—a thinly veiled version of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War—where he meets the local MI6 contact, Efua Blessing Ogilvy-Grant, and a Rhodesian mercenary, Kobus Breed. After being shot by Ogilvy-Grant, Bond tracks both people to Washington on a revenge mission, finally establishing that Breed is drug trafficking heroin into the US.
Boyd closely based his version of the Bond character on Fleming's, and eschewed any of the film versions. The novel is set in 1969—six years after Fleming's last work was set—and Bond is 45-years-old. Boyd was raised in Nigeria and used his experiences during the civil war to provide the location for the novel. He has been a Bond fan since his youth and, in preparation for writing the novel he read all the Bond stories in chronological order. It took 18 months to write the novel, with some friction between Boyd and the Fleming estate over the portrayal of Bond.
Solo received mixed reviews, with a number of critics pointing to the convoluted and unstirring plot. Other critics saw the book as being equal with, or superior to, Fleming's stronger novels. The book sold well, appearing in the top ten-selling book lists in the UK.


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1 Plot
2 Characters and themes
3 Background
4 Release and reception 4.1 Reviews
5 Adaptations
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

Plot[edit]
After celebrating his 45th birthday alone at The Dorchester, Bond is sent to Zanzarim to bring a speedy end to the civil war in the country which has seen the delta region of the country split to form the Democratic Republic of Dahum. Before leaving for the Africa, Bond visits Gabriel Adeka—the rebel leader's brother—who runs AfriKIN, a London-based charity who send aid to Dahumni children; Gabriel tells Bond that he is not in contact with his brother Solomon, as the pair have fallen out.
On his arrival in Zanzarim, Bond is aided by a local agent who introduces herself as Efua Blessing Ogilvy-Grant. The two travel from the capital city to the rebel enclave, but are attacked shortly before reaching their destination and taken captive by Kobus Breed, a mercenary assisting the rebels. The group are attacked on their return journey and Ogilvy-Grant goes missing in the confusion, while Bond escapes.
Bond proceeds to the enclave, where he is met by Breed, who accepts Bond's cover as a journalist. Bond meets Solomon Adeka and realises that the leader will shortly die of cancer: his mission to kill Adeka is needless. Bond sees supply flights of arms and equipment coming into the country, all funded by billionaire Hulbert Linck; the aeroplanes all show the AfriKIN name on the fuselage. When Adeka dies a few days later, Bond tries to leave the country on one of the supply flights, but is confronted by Breed and Blessing, who both shoot him and leave him to die.
Bond is saved by a journalist he befriended and returns to the UK, where he spends time in a military hospital. After discharging himself, he decides to go on a revenge mission against Breed and Ogilvy-Grant. Discovering AfriKIN has relocated to Washington DC, Bond travels to the US and tracks down both of them at the AfriKIN offices. While conducting surveillance against the company, Bond is briefly detained by Brigham Leiter—nephew of Felix—of the CIA, who explains Ogilvy-Grant also works for the CIA.
Bond meets Ogilvy-Grant, who assures him that she shot to wound him in order that Breed would not shoot them both. The following day Bond watches a mercy flight bringing in maimed and injured Zanzarimi children; he dines alone and returns to his hotel to find that Breed has killed Ogilvy-Grant.
Bond attacks the house where Breed is staying with the children, and incapacitates the mercenary, leaving him for dead. He establishes that the children are being used as drug mules to smuggle raw heroin into the country and locates Solomon Adeka, who had not been killed in Africa, but been turned into a heroin addict in order to control him. Adeka's older brother had been killed in London, ensuring Solomon became chief of the tribe whose lands held massive amounts of oil: as he was an addict, these rights were signed away in favour of Hulbert Linck. Linck was killed by the CIA during the raid on the house.
Characters and themes[edit]
The central character of the novel is James Bond, the fictional MI6 agent created by Ian Fleming. The author, William Boyd modelled his version of the character on Fleming's version, which Boyd identified as being very different from the version seen in the films.[1] Solo is set in 1969—six years after Fleming's last work was set—and the novel begins with Bond celebrating his 45th birthday. Boyd altered aspects of the character, making him "an older, wiser Bond"';[2] while having coffee on the King's Road, Bond's "advancing age lends an undertone of poignancy to his almost detached observation of the bra-less, mini-skirted cavalcade".[3] Boyd's version of Bond is "more impulsive, less emotionally guarded, and also more sadistic" than Fleming's,[3] and he has the facility for extreme violence: Bond's "casual sexism has gone, to be replaced by a flaring lust that teeters on the edge of being out of control, and has to be reined in".[4]
The primary antagonist of the novel is Kobus Breed, a mercenary with a disfigured face and a permanently weeping eye who had previously served with the Rhodesian Light Infantry in Matabeleland;[4][5] Olen Steinhauer, writing in The New York Times thinks the scarred villain to be "an obligatory nod toward the requirements of the Bond formula".[6] Some writers are unimpressed with Breed; Robert Crampton of The Sunday Times thinks that the character "feels more like a henchman than a proper power-crazed villain. He has menace, but no ambition. You wait for the evil genius to turn up—but he never does",[7] while David Sexton in the London Evening Standard thinks the character "lacks charisma",[8] and David Connett in the Sunday Express considers him "a colourless character in comparison with factual and fictional counterparts".[9] The journalist Geoffrey Wansell in the Daily Mail disagreed and Breed, along with a second villain, millionaire Hulbert Linck, were as strong as some of Fleming's villains;[5] Steinhauer also thought that the novel's villains were realistic, "motivated by simple greed yet clever enough to be legitimately dangerous".[6] There are two main female characters in Solo—a horror film actress, Bryce Fitzjohn and the local MI6 contact Efua Blessing Ogilvy-Grant; rather like many of Fleming's female characters, both are "determined females who are not to be patronised by Bond".[4]
The main theme of the novel is revenge. Bond is stopped from leaving Zanzarim by Breed and subsequently shot and badly wounded by Ogilvy-Grant; he tracks down the pair to Washington and attempts to get his revenge from the pair.[9] According to the The Sunday Business Post, "this is where the author comes into his own, along with our hero, and it's all taken up a notch."[10] Associated with the revenge is treachery: it is a subject that recurred through Fleming's works, and Boyd uses it to provide a motive for Bond's mission of revenge.[5]
Background[edit]



William Boyd, author of Solo, in 2009
On 31 March 2012 Boyd announced at the Oxford Literary Festival that he was working on a novel set in Africa.[11] Boyd had lived in Nigeria—"where his mother was a teacher and his father a doctor"—during the Nigerian Civil War, which "had a profound effect on him."[12] On 11 April 2012 the Fleming estate announced that Boyd would write a Bond novel to follow Jeffery Deaver's 2011 novel Carte Blanche.[13] The civil war, over the attempted secession by Biafra from Nigeria, was the location for Solo, although Boyd renamed this as the fictional Zanzarim.[7]
On 15 April 2013 Boyd announced the book's title at the London Book Fair. The announcement was part of the "Author of the Day" event at the English Pen Literary Café. Selected press were invited to the event and were given a brief opportunity to question Boyd about the book's title.[14] Boyd believes the short title is "strikingly apt" for the novel. He remarked that "titles are very important" to him, and that as soon as he "wrote down Solo on a sheet of paper I saw its potential. Not only did it fit the theme of the novel perfectly, it's also a great punchy word, instantly and internationally comprehensible, graphically alluring and, as an extra bonus, it's strangely Bondian in the sense that we might be subliminally aware of the '00' of '007' lurking just behind those juxtaposed O's of SOLO".[14]
For background Boyd read all the Bond stories in chronological order;[1] and had researched Fleming and the literary Bond's background. Boyd was a child when his father introduced him to Fleming's works. As a result, Boyd found himself also becoming fascinated with Ian Fleming.[15] He told reporters that he was interested in Bond as a human being. "Bond is not just a superhero. He has flaws, he has weaknesses, he makes mistakes. ... That was Fleming's genius."[16] The novel is set in 1969 when Bond is 45;[17] Boyd intentionally picked the year, further adding that "there are no gimmicks, it's a real spy story."[16] Boyd criticised how the filmmakers have portrayed Bond onscreen as a "cartoon character"; he also believes that Bond should be "troubled and a massive boozer."[18] The novel reflects Boyd's view, where Bond "drinks enough to float a boat. He drinks so much you wonder that he ever has the time or inclination to do anything else".[19]
The writing process took 18 months and Boyd was required to run synopses and drafts through the Fleming estate, a process he described as "benevolent surveillance".[20] The process was not always smooth, and the author had a number of arguments with the estate over the portrayal of Bond: "they were concerned about Bond being seen as an assassin, but I would argue Bond is sent on an assassination mission in at least four Fleming books", with further issues over Bond's relationship with M.[21]
Boyd described writing the book as "tremendous fun"[16] and a "once in a lifetime challenge",[18] but admitted that he had to take it "really, really seriously."[16] After completing the writing process, Boyd commented that he did not "attempt to write as pastiche Fleming novel ... it's my own voice; I'm dealing with things and subjects I am interested in ... it is very much my novel; it just features these characters invented by Fleming.[20]
Release and reception[edit]
Solo was launched on 25 September 2013 at the Dorchester Hotel. Seven copies of the book were signed by Boyd, were collected by seven Jensen Interceptors and were then flown by British Airways to Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Zurich, Los Angeles, Delhi, Cape Town and Sydney.[22] The book was released into the shops on 26 September 2013; the hardcover book was published by Jonathan Cape and was 336 pages long and cost £18.99.[7] An e-book edition was also released, as was an audio book, narrated by Dominic West.[23] The hardcover edition was released in the US by HarperCollins on 8 October 2013 for $26.99.[6]
The jacket was designed by Suzanne Dean, the creative director at Random House. The book's dust jacket featured die-cut bullet holes, while the hardcover binding featured "burn marks" under the holes. Dean commented that she took inspiration from the 1960s in her design, and was influenced by the graphic designers Saul Bass, Paul Rand and Alvin Lustig.[24]
Reviews[edit]
The novel sold nearly 9,000 copies in its first week, although that was 48% down on Deaver's 2011 novel Carte Blanche, and even further behind Sebastian Faulks's 2008 book Devil May Care.[25] By 10 October the London Evening Standard listed the books as number one on the London's Bestsellers list,[26] and in the two weeks of 5 and 12 October 2013 was shown as number 3 in the UK fiction best sellers list,[27] dropping to fourth place on 19 October 2013.[28]
Solo received mixed reviews. A number of reviewers, including Robert McCrum in The Guardian,[29] David Mills in The Sunday Times[4] and Olen Steinhauer in The New York Times,[6] all considered the book to be equal with, or superior to, Fleming's stronger novels. Steinhauer considered that it was Boyd's description of the Zanzarim civil war that gave the novel its "greatest power", but he also thought there was a "neat metafictional trick" by connecting Bond's wartime experiences with 30 Assault Unit—a British Commando unit developed by Fleming.[6] The connection was also picked up by Geoffrey Wansell, reviewing for the Daily Mail, who saw the tribute paid to Fleming as a "masterstroke", in a novel that he thought "brings back the real Bond, triumphantly".[5] Writing in The Guardian, Richard Williams saw Boyd using some similar phrasing of Fleming's, while also including "gestures of independence" with his own ideas. The result, Williams considers, is a story that "entertains far more than it exasperates".[3]
Much of the criticism about the novel focuses on the plot; Jon Stock, writing in The Daily Telegraph, thought that although Boyd used details in the same way Fleming did that would appeal to Bond aficionados, the book was based on "a curiously unstirring plot", which was also "convoluted".[30] The National's Nick Leech also noted the use of details, but considered that this led to "a pedantic, meandering narrative" which led to "an underwhelming finale".[31] Writing in the London Evening Standard, David Sexton agreed, calling the book a "rather inattentive novel", that was a "lame outing" in the Bond canon.[8] David Connett was another who saw flaws in the novel, calling it "anaemic stuff", although it was "far superior to the last effort to breathe life into a Bond novel by Jeffery Deaver".[9]
Adaptations[edit]
On 30 September 2013 Solo was the chosen work for Book at Bedtime on BBC Radio 4. The work was read by Paterson Joseph; the book was adapted by Libby Spurrier and was broadcast in ten episodes.[32]
See also[edit]

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References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Clark, Blanche (14 October 2013). "The Spy Who Dared to Show his Sensitive Side". The Daily Telegraph (Surry Hills, NSW).
2.Jump up ^ Clark, Nick (26 September 2013). "The Tale of Two 00s: would Daniel Day-Lewis be a good Bond". The Independent (London).
3.^ Jump up to: a b c Williams, Richard (5 October 2013). "Review: Fiction: Licence to Write: Boyd's Bond Entertains More Than it Exasperates". The Guardian (London).
4.^ Jump up to: a b c d Mills, David (29 September 2013). "Review: Solo by William Boyd". The Sunday Times (London). (subscription required)
5.^ Jump up to: a b c d Wansell, Geoffrey (26 September 2013). "A New Bond Book and, Hurrah, He's Back to His Ruthless, Bed Hopping Best". Daily Mail (London).
6.^ Jump up to: a b c d e Steinhauer, Olen (13 October 2013). "You Only Live Forever". The New York Times (New York). p. 13.
7.^ Jump up to: a b c Crampton, Robert (28 September 2013). "Solo: A James Bond Novel by William Boyd". The Sunday Times (London). (subscription required)
8.^ Jump up to: a b Sexton, David (28 September 2013). "Book Review: Solo a James Bond Novel by William Boyd – More Tots That Plot, or Even Totty". London Evening Standard (London).
9.^ Jump up to: a b c Connett, David (29 September 2013). "A licence to bore ...". Sunday Express (London). p. 54.
10.Jump up ^ "Boyd's Bond grows into the role of 007". The Sunday Business Post (Dublin). 20 October 2013.
11.Jump up ^ Blackburn, David (13 April 2012). "The art of fiction: the return of 007". The Spectator (London).
12.Jump up ^ "William Boyd". Goodreads. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
13.Jump up ^ Singh, Anita (12 April 2012). "William Boyd to Write the Next Bond Novel". The Daily Telegraph (London). p. 5.
14.^ Jump up to: a b Armitstead, Claire (15 April 2013). "James Bond's Solo Mission: William Boyd reveals new book title". The Guardian. London: guardian.co.uk.
15.Jump up ^ Clark, Nick (15 April 2013). "The name's Solo: William Boyd reveals title of his James Bond novel". The Independent. London.
16.^ Jump up to: a b c d Nasralla, Shadia; Casciato, Paul (15 April 2013). "James Bond Goes "Solo" in New Book Penned by William Boyd". Reuters.
17.Jump up ^ Singh, Anita (11 Jun 2012). "Hay Festival 2012: James Bond to be middle-aged". The Daily Telegraph (London).
18.^ Jump up to: a b Ward, Victoria (13 April 2013). "James Bond's next novel, Solo, to follow 007 into Africa". The Daily Telegraph. London.
19.Jump up ^ "007 Gets More than One over the Eight – Solo: A James Bond Novel, Review". London Evening Standard (London). 26 September 2013.
20.^ Jump up to: a b Sanghera, Sathnam (22 September 2013). "William Boyd and his New James Bond Book". The Times (London). (subscription required)
21.Jump up ^ Malvern, Jack (21 September 2013). "New James Bond Novel is Homage to Ian Fleming, Without Racism, Sexism or Bad Plotting". The Times (London). (subscription required)
22.Jump up ^ "Solo Launch at the Dorchester Hotel". Ian Fleming Publications. 25 September 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
23.Jump up ^ "Solo Published Today". Ian Fleming Publications. 26 September 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
24.Jump up ^ Montgomery, Angus (1 August 2013). "New James Bond book is Peppered with Bullet-Holes". Design Week. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
25.Jump up ^ O'Brien, Liam (2 October 2013). "The Sales are not Enough: William Boyd's James Bond Novel Outshone by Jeffery Deaver and Sebastian Faulks". The Independent (London).
26.Jump up ^ "London's Bestsellers". London Evening Standard (London). 10 October 2013. p. 40.
27.Jump up ^ "Best Sellers". The Daily Telegraph (London). 12 October 2013. p. 33.
28.Jump up ^ "Best Sellers". The Daily Telegraph (London). 19 October 2013. p. 33.
29.Jump up ^ McCrum, Robert (26 September 2013). "Review: A Tricky Assignment – But Boyd is Brilliant". The Guardian (London). p. 3.
30.Jump up ^ Stock, Jon (26 September 2013). "Solo's One Pitfall, a curiously unstirring plot". The Daily Telegraph (London). p. 3.
31.Jump up ^ Leech, Nick (29 September 2013). "New Bond Novel Fails to Stir". The National (Adu Dhabi).
32.Jump up ^ Reynolds, Gillian (30 September 2013). "Radio Choice". The Daily Telegraph (London). p. 34.
External links[edit]
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Official website of Ian Fleming Publications
Official website of William Boyd


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Carte Blanche (novel)
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Carte Blanche
Carteblanche.png
First edition cover

Author
Jeffery Deaver
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy novel
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton

Publication date
 26 May 2011
Media type
Print (Hardcover)
Carte Blanche is a James Bond novel written by Jeffery Deaver.[1] Commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications, it was published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton on 26 May 2011 and was released in the United States by Simon & Schuster on 14 June 2011.[2] Carte Blanche is the thirty-seventh original James Bond novel and the first to have a contemporary setting since The Man with the Red Tattoo by Raymond Benson was published in 2002. The title and cover artwork were unveiled on 17 January 2011, at a special launch event at the InterContinental Hotel in Dubai.[3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Background
2 Plot
3 Characters
4 Launch event
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

Background[edit]
Carte Blanche updates James Bond's backstory to fit with the 21st century setting, making it the first ever reboot of the literary James Bond series. Jeffery Deaver has stated that his James Bond will have been born in 1979, making him a veteran of the war in Afghanistan (Operation Herrick) instead of a World War II veteran and Cold War secret agent as originally conceived by creator Ian Fleming.[4]
Plot[edit]
Set in mid-2011, the story takes place over the course of a week.[5] James Bond is a former Royal Naval Reserve officer who has recently joined the Overseas Development Group - a covert operational unit of British security under the control of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office tasked "to identify and eliminate threats to the country by extraordinary means." Bond is employed within the 00 Section of the Operations Branch.
He starts his assignment on the outskirts of Novi Sad in Serbia where an Irish sapper-turned-enforcer named Niall Dunne is planning to derail a train carrying three hundred kilograms of methyl isocyanate, dumping it into the Danube. Bond is able to prevent the catastrophe by derailing the train himself at a much safer place along the line. He is unable to detain Dunne, who kills Bond's Serbian contacts in the course of his escape.
Using what little intelligence Bond was able to gather from the operation in Serbia, the ODG is able to establish a connection to Green Way International, a waste disposal consortium contracted to demolish an army base in March. Because Bond is not authorized to act on British soil, he is forced to work with a domestic security agent named Percy Osborne-Smith. The two men clash over the interpretation of the intelligence, prompting Bond to manipulate Osborne-Smith into pursuing a lead Bond knows to be false, and allowing him to investigate the March army base on his own. While exploring the base hospital, he is sealed inside by Niall Dunne, who intends to kill him by bringing the hospital down in a controlled demolition. Bond escapes by improvising an explosive device.
Bond turns his attention to Green Way International, led by the enigmatic Severan Hydt. The Dutch-born Hydt is a "rag-and-bone man", who made his fortune in the disposal of waste. He has an intense fascination with death, which is strongly implied to be a sexual fetish. The Overseas Development Group authorize Bond to investigate Hydt when intelligence surfaces suggesting he is also known as 'Noah' and a key player in the derailment in Serbia, which is believed to be a prelude to a much bigger attack that will affect British interests. Bond gets wind of a second attack, to occur later in the week, killing up to one hundred people. He tracks Hydt to Dubai and, with the help of CIA officer Felix Leiter, eavesdrops on a conversation with one of Hydt's senior researchers. Concerned that the attack is imminent, Bond attempts to anticipate Hydt's next move and is on the verge of evacuating a crowded museum when he realises that Hydt is there for an exhibit of the bodies of ninety tribal nomads who were killed a millennium ago. Aborting his planned evacuation, Bond returns to Hydt's facility to find that Leiter has been attacked by an unknown assailant and a local CIA asset has been murdered.
Hydt leaves Dubai for Cape Town, with Bond following closely. Once inside South Africa, he meets Bheka Jordaan, a local police operative. Bond is able to get close to Hydt by posing as a Durban-based mercenary, and fuels Hydt's fixation with death by promising him access to mass graves across the African continent. Hydt is taken by Bond's proposal of exhuming the bodies and recycling them into consumer products such as building materials, and gradually welcomes him into his inner circle. Bond attends a fundraiser for the International Organization Against Hunger with Hydt, where he meets Felicity Willing, the charity's spokesperson. After helping Willing deliver the left-over food from the fundraiser to a distribution centre, the two begin a relationship.
Using his cover, Bond is able to infiltrate Hydt's operations in South Africa. His relationship with Bheka Jordaan sours, particularly when he encounters the assailant who attacked Felix Leiter in Dubai: the brother of one of his contacts who was killed in Serbia. As the deadline for the attack - known as Gehenna (derived from the Hebrew word for Hell) - approaches, the Overseas Development Group is ordered to pull Bond out of South Africa and send him to Afghanistan as Whitehall believes the attack will happen there as they can see no connection between Hydt and Gehenna. M is not convinced and manages to keep Bond in South Africa, but the future of the agency depends on his being correct in suspecting Hydt.
On the day of the Gehenna attacks, Bond deduces that the target is somewhere in York, but his report is ignored by Osborne-Smith, who believes it is aimed at a security conference in London. Bond manages to access Hydt's research and development facility, where he uncovers plans for a weapon developed by Serbia known as "the Cutter", which fires razor-sharp shards of titanium at hypervelocity. Hydt has been using his operations to steal sensitive information, from which he has acquired the blueprints to the Cutter. Bond realised that the derailment in Serbia was a false flag operation: its intention was not to drop methyl isocyanate into the Danube, but to allow Niall Dunne the opportunity to steal scrap metal from the train for use in the prototype Cutter. Hydt was employed by an American pharmaceutical corporation to detonate a Cutter at a university in York, killing a cancer researcher on the verge of a breakthrough that would bankrupt the pharmaceutical corporation. Misinformation fed to a Hungarian newspaper would suggest the attack was aimed at a fellow lecturer who was a vocal opponent of the Serbian government. With the help of Hydt's personal assistant, Bond is able to stop the attack. Hydt is arrested, but Dunne escapes and shoots his employer at long range.
Bond is uncomfortable with the conclusion, feeling that there are too many loose ends at hand. Research shows that the ODG had been misled, and their intelligence misinterpreted; Severan Hydt was never known as Noah. Rather, it is an acronym for the National Organisation Against Hunger, which recently expanded to provide food aid on an international scale. Niall Dunne is an associate of Felicity Willing, whose organisation has expanded to the point where she directly controls one-third of all food aid arriving in Africa. She intends to use this power to strategically distribute food throughout east Africa, giving the Sudanese government a pretext to go to war with rebels and prevent Southern Sudan from seceding. Bond lures Willing into a trap at an abandoned inn where she confesses the plot. Niall Dunne re-appears, attacking the party before Bond and Bheka Jordaan shoot and kill him. Willing is taken to a black site after MI6 spread stories suggesting she was embezzling from her own charity.
A subplot throughout the novel involves Bond's investigations into a KGB operation code-named "Steel Cartridge". Bond believes that his father was a spy for the United Kingdom during the Cold War, and that he was killed by Russian agents. Further evidence suggests that Steel Cartridge was a clean-up operation, with the Russians assassinating their own agents that had infiltrated Western intelligence organisations. The suggestion that his father was a traitor does not sit well with Bond, until he unearths further evidence that shows the Russians carried out a Steel Cartridge assassination on a Western spy-hunter who was dangerously close to identifying Soviet moles - his mother, Monique Delacroix Bond.
Characters[edit]
Carte Blanche features several recurring characters from the Fleming novels, however, they all have updated backstories in order to fit in with the contemporary setting:
James Bond: Born in 1979, Bond is a veteran of the wars in Afghanistan (Operation Herrick).[6] He drives a Bentley Continental GT, a brand Fleming used throughout his novels.[7] Unlike the Fleming character (and despite the book's smoke design motif), James Bond is a former smoker.[8]
M: The head of the Overseas Development Group returned to being a man after being a woman (Barbara Mawdsley) throughout Raymond Benson’s tenure.[9] He is referred to as "Miles" by two intelligence officers, implying that he is Miles Messervy, as Fleming identified M in his novels.
Severan Hydt: The Dutch-born owner of Green Way International, a waste disposal corporation. He has an obsession with death that borders on sexual fetishisation, and plans to detonate a dangerous weapon in a British university to kill a cancer researcher.
Niall Dunne: A former Army sapper turned enforcer who serves as Hydt's trusted confidante and the brains behind his plan. From Belfast, he has a fascination with machines, and tends to view the world in a cool, dispassionate manner.
Felicity Willing: The spokeswoman for the International Organisation Against Hunger, which controls one-third of all food aid arriving in Africa. Willing attempts to use her position to distribute food in a way that would give the Sudanese government a pretext to go to war with rebels in the south.
Bheka Jordaan: A member of the South African Police Service and an ally of Bond's. She is aware of the nature of his work and refuses to take part in it unless Bond can give her a legal reason to intervene. Her stubborn insistence on obeying protocol stems from a high-profile investigation she conducted into corruption in the South African police forces.
Jessica Barnes: Hydt head of PR and Advertising. Also his lover, an older woman, he has a fascination with her ageing.
Miss Moneypenny: M’s personal secretary is in her mid-30s.[10]
Ophelia "Philly" Maidenstone: MI6's liaison officer to the Overseas Development Group. Bond finds her invaluable, particularly for her ability to piece together intelligence. He finds they share many common interests, and considers pursuing a relationship with her, once he has allowed her time to recover from a broken engagement.
Gregory Lamb: An MI6 officer stationed in Cape Town, but with jurisdiction over the entire African continent. Many in London consider him dangerous and unbridled and advise that he should be avoided if possible. Lamb ingratiates himself into Bond's operation, and Bond surmises that he is less dangerous than he is cowardly.
Percy Osborne-Smith: An agent with Division Three, an offshoot of MI5. Osborne-Smith likes to be the one leading investigations so that he may take the credit for a successful operation. His ambitions lead him to shut down central London at the height of a security conference, ignoring intelligence from Bond that suggests the attack will take place in York.
Felix Leiter: Bond's CIA counterpart and ally who aids him in tracking Severan Hydt in Dubai.[11]
Nicholas Rathko: A Serbian operative and former member of Arkhan's Tigers with a vendetta against Bond. His younger brother was assisting Bond in Serbia before being captured and tortured by Niall Dunne. Rathko wants revenge against Bond for leaving his brother to die while chasing Dunne rather than taking him to a hospital.
Sanu Hirani: The head of the Overseas Development Group's Q Branch. He is able to rapidly improvise and modify field equipment for Bond (at the drop of a hat) and claims he does not need to sleep. His office is described as being plastered with pictures of Indian cricketers. The novel refers to this character as "Q" at least once, implying that in Deaver's continuity Major Boothroyd (the Q of Fleming's Bond) is not the quartermaster of Q Branch. This is the only case of an ongoing Fleming character being replaced by Deaver.
Mary Goodnight: The secretary to the 00 Section will be 21 years old.[12] Goodnight has not been featured in a Bond novel since Fleming's The Man with the Golden Gun (1965); she had references in several previous Fleming novels. In the book, Deaver indicates that Goodnight resembles actress Kate Winslet.
May Maxwell: Bond's loyal and elderly Scottish housekeeper. Initial reports suggested she would be re-imagined as Indian or Pakistani maidservant, but this change was later applied to Sanu Hirani, the head of Q Branch.[13] The last name "Maxwell" is newly established, as Fleming never assigned a last name to the character.
Launch event[edit]
As many details as possible regarding James Bond's adventures in Carte Blanche were kept under wraps by Ian Fleming Publications. The buzz generated around the book culminated in an invite-only event at St. Pancras Station in London on 25 May 2011.[14] Here Deaver made his grand entrance in a Carte Blanche labelled Bentley, accompanied by stunt woman, model and actress Chesca Miles. Royal Marine Commandos abseiled from the roof of the elaborate station to hand Deaver a copy of the novel as he unveiled the book to the world's press.
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "James Bond book called Carte Blanche". BBC News. 17 January 2011.
2.Jump up ^ "Carte Blanche press release". CommanderBond.net. 17 January 2011.
3.Jump up ^ The Book Bond. "James Bond is Back in Carte Blanche". Retrieved 29 March 2011.
4.Jump up ^ "Jeffery Deaver will write a James Bond novel". NewsObserver.com. 18 July 2010.
5.Jump up ^ "The X-File: Your Field Guide to 'Carte Blanche'". FelixLeiter.com. 19 July 2010.
6.Jump up ^ "Jeffery Deaver Talks About Writing Bond, James Bond". Dr. Shatterhand's Botanical Garden. 3 June 2010.
7.Jump up ^ "Carte Blanche press release". CommanderBond.net. 17 January 2011.
8.Jump up ^ "Jeffery Deaver Exclusive Interview". MI6-HQ.com. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
9.Jump up ^ "Jeffery Deaver Talks About Writing Bond, James Bond". Dr. Shatterhand's Botanical Garden. 6 July 2010.
10.Jump up ^ "Jeffery Deaver Talks About Writing Bond, James Bond". Dr. Shatterhand's Botanical Garden. 3 June 2010.
11.Jump up ^ "Jeffery Deaver: The Crime Writer Working on the Latest Bond Book". Express.co.uk. 9 August 2010.
12.Jump up ^ "Jeffery Deaver Talks About Writing Bond, James Bond". Dr. Shatterhand's Botanical Garden. 3 July 2010.
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External links[edit]
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Devil May Care (novel)
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Devil May Care
Devilmaycare.jpg
First edition cover, published by Penguin Books

Author
Sebastian Faulks
Cover artist
Photography: Kevin Summers;
 Design: The Partners
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Penguin 007

Publication date
 28 May 2008
Media type
Print (hardcover)
Pages
295 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
978-0-7181-5376-2 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
192027506
Devil May Care is a James Bond continuation novel written by Sebastian Faulks. It was published in the UK by Penguin Books on 28 May 2008, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ian Fleming, the creator of Bond. The story centres on Bond's investigation into Dr Julius Gorner, a megalomaniac chemist with a deep-seated hatred of England.
Faulks wrote the book in the style of Fleming, and the novel carried the credit "Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming"; he also took the same timeframe as Fleming, setting the novel in 1967, following the events in Fleming's last novel The Man with the Golden Gun. He ignored the influences of the other Bond continuation authors and the films, producing a characterisation of Bond in the style of Fleming's.
The novel was broadly well received by critics and went into the best-seller lists by the end of the first week of sales, selling 44,093 copies in four days to become the fastest-selling fiction book after the Harry Potter titles. Faulks stated that although he enjoyed writing the book, he would write no more Bond novels.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Characters and themes
3 Background
4 Release and reception 4.1 Reviews
5 See also
6 References
7 Bibliography

Plot[edit]
The story is set in the 1960s. Bond is instructed by his superior, M, to investigate a man named Dr Julius Gorner, and his bodyguard, Chagrin. Bond is warned that his performance will be monitored and that a new 00 agent is waiting in the wings if his actions go awry.
Bond flies to Imperial Iran (Persia) to investigate. Gorner owns factories and produces legitimate pharmaceuticals, however MI6 suspects he has other motives. During Bond's investigation he identifies Gorner due to a deformity of his hand, and establishes Gorner's complicity in a scheme to not only flood Europe with cheap drugs but also to launch a two-pronged terrorist attack on the Soviet Union, whose retaliation will subsequently devastate the UK. The attack is to be made using a stolen British airliner, earlier hijacked over Iraqi airspace, and an ekranoplan. Bond is assisted in his investigation by Scarlett Papava (whose twin sister Poppy is under Gorner's emotional spell), Darius Alizadeh (the local head of station), JD Silver (an in-situ agent), and Felix Leiter.
Bond is eventually captured by Gorner in the heroin plant, who explains that Bond is to be used as bait during a drugs delivery across the Afghan desert, and should he survive an expected ambush, is to fly the captured airliner into the Russian heartland. Bond would be identified as British upon its destruction, increasing the evidence against the British Government. Bond survives the predicted Afghan attack and plots an escape attempt, which sees Scarlett get away due to Bond surrendering himself as a diversion. In the morning he is taken aboard the aeroplane. Before the airliner can bomb the Soviets, with the aid of the airliner's pilot and Scarlett (who had been hiding on board), Bond regains control of the aeroplane and crashes it into a mountainside after parachuting to safety.
Meanwhile, Felix Leiter and Darius inform agent Silver of the second method of attack. Silver shows himself to be a double agent by failing to call in an airstrike against the Ekranoplan and by attempting to kill Leiter and Darius. In the shoot-out Darius successfully calls in the airstrike at the cost of his own life and Leiter survives only thanks to the timely arrival of Hamid, his taxi driver. The Ekranoplan is destroyed by RAF Vulcan bombers before it reaches its target. Bond and Scarlett escape through Russia but are pursued by Chagrin, who Bond finally kills on a train. Later Gorner meets him on a boat and tries to shoot him, but Bond pushes him off, where he is torn to pieces by a propeller. With the subsequent elimination of both Chagrin and Gorner, Bond considers his mission a success, and on condition that the agent M has waiting in the wings will not take his place Bond is sent to assess the new agent, designated 004. She turns out to be Scarlett Papava. Scarlett discloses that the story of her twin sister was a ploy to convince Bond to enable her to join the mission. Papava feared that if Bond knew she was a potential 00 agent, he would not have worked with her. With Bond returning to active duty, Scarlett moves off to her own operations as a full 00 agent.
Characters and themes[edit]
The central character of the novel is James Bond, the fictional MI6 agent created by Ian Fleming. Faulks modelled his version of the character on Fleming's version, ignoring the other continuation authors and the films; when interviewed, Faulks said that "My Bond is Fleming's Bond—not Connery, or Moore or Craig, for all their charms",[1] going on to say that "my Bond drinks and smokes as much as ever".[1] Faulks saw Bond as a man in constant peril: "This Bond, this solitary hero with his soft shoes and single under-powered weapon, was a man in dreadful danger. You feared for him."[1] On another occasion he returned to the theme, describing the character as "a very vulnerable man, with his nice suit and soft shoes and ludicrously underpowered gun. He finds himself in terrible situations, and he's all on his own—you just worry for his safety."[2]
With the novel following the fictional timeframe of The Man with the Golden Gun, Bond is still in a state of decline following the death of his wife,[3] and has been forced to take a sabbatical on medical grounds.[4] His mind and body were feeling the effects of his previous missions and lifestyle and he was considering M's offer of a desk job; before he can make the decision, M sends him out on another mission.[5]
For the main female character in the book, Faulks created Scarlett Papava, a fellow MI6 agent who is promoted to the 00 section at the end of the novel. Academic Tony Garland draws a similarity between Papava and the John Gardner character Fredericka von Grüsse, as they both create "a tension between mission and desire."[6] Faulks himself considered that: "My female lead—the 'Bond girl'—has a little more depth than Fleming's women, but not at the expense of glamour",[1] although Christopher Hitchens complained that "there is almost no sex until the very last pages."[7]
The primary antagonist of the novel is Dr Julius Gorner, a chemist with main de singe, monkey's paw: a left hand resembling that of a monkey, covered with hair and without an opposed thumb.[8] Writer Ian Thomson sees Gorner as being "a villain to rival the half-Chinese Dr Julius No",[9] describing him as "a megalomaniac in the cruel lineage of Tamburlaine".[9] When mocked as a student at Oxford because of his hand, he became obsessed with destroying England.[10] Gorner was Lithuanian by birth, which was a nod by Faulks to Auric Goldfinger's Baltic background,[9] whilst his cheating in a game of tennis against Bond was "a deliberate twin to golf with Auric Goldfinger; there is even a sinister Asian manservant—Chagrin, nodding across literary time to Oddjob—who helps his boss to cheat."[3] Academic Marc DiPaolo also noted a similarity between Gorner's plans to take over the media and destroy British culture from within and the actions of Rupert Murdoch.[11]
The main theme of the novel is drugs, which Faulks said came partly from the timeframe of the novel and partly from Fleming not using it as a major theme: "1967, the summer of love ... Drugs were first coming to public notice. The Stones were busted, and there was that famous leader in The Times. And, you know, what are we talking about now all the time? Drugs. It's still very resonant. And there's little about drug-dealing in Fleming. It's not something he did in any depth."[2] Faulks also wanted to broaden the aspect of the story compared to Fleming: "The book is set during the Cold War and I wanted it to not just be a crime story but to also have a political background. I was also determined that although the book is set in 1967, I wanted the issues that it touches on to still be alive to us today".[12]
Background[edit]

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Sebastian Faulks, author of Devil May Care, in 2008.
During May 2006 Sebastian Faulks was approached by Ian Fleming Publications and asked to write a Bond book for Ian Fleming's centenary.[1][13] Although he initially refused, he was persuaded after he re-read Fleming's novels and the company gave him an article by Fleming in 1962—How to Write a Thriller—which revealed that he wrote each Bond book in only six weeks.[1][2] Faulks copied elements of Fleming's routine, joking that "In his house in Jamaica, Ian Fleming used to write 1000 words in the morning, then go snorkelling, have a cocktail, lunch on the terrace, more diving, another 1000 words in the late afternoon, then more martinis and glamorous women. In my house in London, I followed this routine exactly, apart from the cocktails, the lunch and the snorkelling."[12]
The novel carried the unusual credit of "Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming" and Faulks described how—using Fleming's article—he had employed the same style as Fleming did in his novels: "it's standard journalistic: no semicolons, few adverbs, few adjectives, short sentences, a lot of verbs, a lot of concrete nouns. These are the tools, and that's literally the style."[2] Faulks also commented that "some people find it perplexing but I think the way that the book has been presented ... is a clever way of showing that it is not my book, although, of course, it is my book."[12] A large part of Devil May Care is set in Persia (now Iran); it was an area Fleming had not previously dealt with in his Bond novels, describing it as "full of thieves and crooks".[2] Faulks said of his choice of location that Fleming "didn't set any of his books there, which is surprising in some ways because Lebanon in the 60s would have made a great setting for a Bond story. But his loss is my gain.".[12]
Faulks was known for his previous best-selling works Charlotte Gray, Birdsong and On Green Dolphin Street.[2] He was the fifth author to produce an original Bond novel for Ian Fleming Publications (formerly Glidrose), after Fleming himself. Kingsley Amis (writing as "Robert Markham") produced Colonel Sun, John Gardner wrote fourteen original novels and two novelizations, and Raymond Benson produced six original novels and three novelizations.[14] Additionally, Christopher Wood had produced two novelizations of the Eon films, while Charlie Higson and Samantha Weinberg (as "Kate Westbrook") had also published Bond-related novels.[15][16]
Faulks stated that Devil May Care would be his only Bond book, saying: "One tribute, one centenary, one book",[17] adding "My contract did offer me a second go, but definitely not ... 'Once funny, twice silly, three times a slap', as the nanny saying goes. But I think it would be a good gig for someone to do."[18] He saw his novel as a continuation of the Fleming books, saying "I tried to put the films out of mind",[12] adding that "I prepared in a rather pedantic way by reading all of the books in chronological order and when I got to the end I wrote mine."[12]
Release and reception[edit]
Devil May Care was published in the UK on Wednesday, 28 May 2008, to mark the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth.[19] The hardcover published by Penguin Books was 295 pages long and cost £18.99.[9] It was released through Doubleday in the United States.[17] 400,000 hardcover copies were printed for the launch for the UK and US markets.[17] The jacket artwork featured the model Tuuli Shipster, muse of the British photographer, Rankin. Shipster said: "I was thrilled that Penguin chose me to be their Bond girl. It’s fantastic to be involved with something so iconic."[20] The cover picture was taken by British photographer and commercials director, Kevin Summers. The jacket was created by the design agency The Partners.[20]
In the UK, Devil May Care went to the top of the best-seller lists by the end of the first week's sales, having sold 44,093 copies in four days; this made it the fastest-selling fiction book after the Harry Potter titles.[21] Waterstones reported selling 19,000 in the first four days of sales.[22] The book was released in paperback version in the UK on 28 May 2009.[23]
On 27 May 2008, the day before Devil May Care was launched, the press party to publicise the launch of the book included Tuuli Shipster bringing copies up the Thames on a speedboat for a party on HMS Exeter, while two Lynx helicopters circled the ship.[24] The ship, together with its 205-strong crew, had been loaned by the Royal Navy for the occasion.[17]
Reviews[edit]
Writing in The Times, Peter Millar thought that "This is vintage Bond, in a very real sense";[8] he went on to observe that the central figure was "Bond as Fleming abandoned him, shortly before his own death".[8] Millar summarised his critique by saying that the novel was a "ripping yarn, but don't take it seriously".[8] Sam Leith, reviewing the novel for The Daily Telegraph thought that Faulks managed to avoid pastiche in his writing of the book, but had some fun, with "crass stuff ... being played, of course, for laughs".[25] Leith noted that aside from the more camp elements to the book—of which he approved—"when [Faulks] throttles down and lets the Bond schtick do its own work he soon hits a comfortable cruising speed. Plot Bristol fashion: violent pre-credit sequence; flirtatious exchange with Moneypenny; apprehension mid-snoop; transportation to secret base; villain confessing plans; thwarting of plans; coitus."[25]
Reviewing the novel for The Guardian, Mark Lawson wrote that Faulks had made a good job of imitating Fleming, as the plot "persistently picks up whispers from the books Fleming left behind",[3] and using a style and turn of phrase that "read as if they were directly borrowed from Fleming."[3] The main difference Lawson identified between Fleming and Faulks was that Faulks "misses the chilling indifference of tone which Bond's creator brought to both kissing and killing".[3] Overall, Lawson considered that Devil May Care "is a smart and enjoyable act of literary resurrection. Among the now 33 post-Fleming Bonds, this must surely compete only with Kingsley Amis's for the title of the best."[3] Nicola Barr, writing for The Guardian's Saturday edition, was broadly supportive of Faulks, commenting that "No one expects or wants subtlety from Bond, and Faulks delivers a thriller that manages to feel reassuringly familiar rather than predictable."[26]
Euan Ferguson, writing in The Guardian's sister paper, The Observer, stated that "It's good. Which is to say it's better than it could have been. It is not, however, that good."[27] He noted that Faulks "evokes scenes with deft skill: recreates a time and a world with great brio, and manages it with the block script of Fleming's journalistic nature rather than his own more cursive style."[27] Ferguson remained unsatisfied by the book, although he absolves the author of the blame, saying "the problem isn't Faulks, it's Bond. With Fleming's untimely death, the link was broken".[27] Ferguson is pessimistic about Bond's future and predicted that "Bond's tux now flaps in the wind and despite Faulks having made such a well-finessed fist of this, it is, I suspect, a last hurrah for 007, destined to die on the page, if not the screen".[27]
The critic for the London Evening Standard observed that "for once, the claim on the cover, Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming is more than just publishers effrontery, it's a genuine strategy".[28] The critic went on to note that Faulks had "not attempted to modernise Bond one whit" and that he had "delivered in convincing fashion too, in plain prose."[28] Writing in the Financial Times, Christopher Hitchens complained that although Faulks claimed to be writing 'as Fleming', it fell short of doing so: "This pot-boiler takes several times as long as most Bond classics. There is almost no sex until the very last pages. There is almost no torture – an absolute staple of a Bond narrative – until the very last pages."[7] Hitchens admitted that Faulks had referred to elements of Fleming's novels, so that "those who have a canonical attitude to Fleming will be able to collect their share of in-jokes and cross-references";[7] similarly, "wispy fragments of Vesper Lynd and Honey Ryder drift in and out of shot and memory in much the same way".[7] Hitchens concluded his review of the novel by considering that Bond had been "cheapened" in the novel.[7]
Janet Maslin, reviewing Devil May Care for the International Herald Tribune, remarked that Faulks did not "tinker with the series' surefire recipe for success",[29] which resulted in "a serviceable madeleine for Bond nostalgists and a decent replica of past Bond escapades".[29] Patrick Anderson, writing in The Washington Post, admitted that he "was never a great fan of the Bond books"[10] and considered that "Devil May Care has its amusing and entertaining moments, but there were other moments when I thought it would never end".[10]
The New York Times critic, Charles McGrath, felt that Faulks "improbably injects new life into the formula",[30] which meant that Devil May Care was "a stronger novel than any that Fleming wrote".[30] Fritz Lanham, writing for the Houston Chronicle declared that "so satisfying was Sebastian Faulks' new James Bond novel that I felt obliged to celebrate by making myself a vodka martini, very dry, shaken, not stirred."[5] Lanham considered that Faulks had "produced a book true to the spirit of the originals",[5] whilst also producing a novel that "works as a thriller".[5]
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References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Faulks, Sebastian (24 May 2008). "007 Reborn". The Times (London). p. 32.
2.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Kemp, Peter (25 May 2008). "Live and let spy". The Sunday Times (London). p. 4.
3.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Lawson, Mark (29 May 2008). "Literary licence: Faulks resurrects the 60s James Bond". The Guardian (London). p. 5.
4.Jump up ^ Segal, Victoria (3 June 2008). "Faulks's Bond is devilish fun; The Big Read". London Lite (London). p. 22.
5.^ Jump up to: a b c d Lanham, Fritz (1 June 2008). "Older Bond still entertaining; Sebastian Faulks captures the spirit of Ian Fleming's original 007 novels". Houston Chronicle (Houston). p. 15.
6.Jump up ^ Garland, Tony W. (2009). ""The Coldest Weapon of All": The Bond Girl Villain in James Bond Films". Journal of Popular Film and Television 37 (4): pp. 179–188. doi:10.1080/01956050903227977. ISSN 1930-6458.
7.^ Jump up to: a b c d e Hitchens, Christopher (31 May 2008). "Shaky, not stirring (Subscription needed)". Financial Times (London). Retrieved 10 April 2012.
8.^ Jump up to: a b c d Millar, Peter (28 May 2008). "Literary lion returns Bond to usual hunting ground". The Times (London). p. 15.
9.^ Jump up to: a b c d Thomson, Ian (6 June 2008). "James Bond the Jamaican". Arts & Book Review (London). p. 22.
10.^ Jump up to: a b c Anderson, Patrick (28 May 2008). "Ian Fleming's Agent of Little Change". The Washington Post (Washington). p. C01.
11.Jump up ^ DiPaolo 2011, p. 172.
12.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Bond is back". The New Zealand Herald. 31 May 2008.
13.Jump up ^ "Sebastian Faulks". Ian Fleming Publications: The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
14.Jump up ^ Macintyre 2008, p. 209-210.
15.Jump up ^ Smith, Neil (3 March 2005). "The name's Bond – Junior Bond". BBC News.
16.Jump up ^ "Miss Moneypenny". Evening Standard. 14 October 2005. p. 10.
17.^ Jump up to: a b c d Lawless, Jill (27 May 2008). "James Bond returns in Devil May Care". The Associated Press.
18.Jump up ^ Page, Benedicte (21 June 2008). "Faulks passes on new Bond". The Bookseller: News. London: The Bookseller. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
19.Jump up ^ "Sebastian Faulks". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
20.^ Jump up to: a b "Devil May Care Cover Revealed". MI6 – The Home of James Bond. 3 December 2007. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
21.Jump up ^ "Bond book record". The Daily Telegraph (London). 5 June 2008. p. 8.
22.Jump up ^ "New Bond book is a bestseller". Daily Mirror (London). 5 June 2008. p. 20.
23.Jump up ^ "Devil May Care – Sebastian Faulks – Penguin Books". Penguin Books. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
24.Jump up ^ Faulks, Sebastian (28 May 2008). "Notebook: This is one James Bond case that I couldn't crack". The Daily Telegraph (London). p. 24.
25.^ Jump up to: a b Leith, Sam (29 May 2008). "Faulks takes Bond and uses artistic licence to thrill". The Daily Telegraph (London). p. 9.
26.Jump up ^ Barr, Nicola (27 June 2009). "Saturday Review: Paperbacks: Fiction: Devil May Care, by Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming (Penguin, £7.99)". The Guardian (London). p. 19.
27.^ Jump up to: a b c d Ferguson, Euan (1 June 2008). "Nice try, Mr Faulks". The Observer (London). p. 22.
28.^ Jump up to: a b "This 007 is a Faulks hero; Review". Evening Standard (London). 28 May 2008. p. 3.
29.^ Jump up to: a b Maslin, Janet (30 May 2008). "Devil May Care; Books / Fiction". International Herald Tribune (Paris). p. 5.
30.^ Jump up to: a b McGrath, Charles (1 June 2008). "That license to kill is unexpired". The New York Times (New York). p. AR 1.
Bibliography[edit]
DiPaolo, Marc (2011). War, Politics and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-4718-3.
Macintyre, Ben (2008). For Your Eyes Only. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7475-9527-4.


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The Man with the Red Tattoo
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The Man with the Red Tattoo


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2003 Coronet Books British paperback edition.

Author
Raymond Benson
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton

Publication date
 2 May 2002
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
320 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-340-81914-6 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
48837119

Dewey Decimal
 813/.54 22
LC Class
PS3552.E547666 M36 2002b
The Man with the Red Tattoo, first published in 2002, was the sixth and final original novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Ian Fleming Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam. It was later published in Japan in 2003. The novel's working title was Red Widow Dawn.[1]
After the publication of The Man with the Red Tattoo, Benson wrote the novelisation of Die Another Day which was published later in the year. Die Another Day is considered Benson's final James Bond novel; the following Bond stories being a series of novels about a teenage James Bond in the 1930s by Charlie Higson (see Young Bond), and a trilogy of faux-autobiographies by Samantha Weinberg entitled The Moneypenny Diaries, focusing on Miss Moneypenny. On August 28, 2005, Ian Fleming Publications confirmed that it was planning to publish a one-off adult Bond novel in 2008 to mark the 100th anniversary of Ian Fleming's birth. In July 2007, it was confirmed that the book had been completed by Sebastian Faulks, titled Devil May Care.[2]
Benson at one time had plans to release a collection of Bond short stories, but after abruptly announcing his retirement in early 2003 from writing Bond novels, the project was never pursued. Not counting novelisations and short story collections, The Man with the Red Tattoo marks the 35th original James Bond novel since Ian Fleming introduced the character nearly 50 years earlier.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot introduction
2 Publication history
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Plot introduction[edit]
On a flight from Japan to the United Kingdom, a young Japanese woman dies of a mysterious illness. The illness is a mutated version of the West Nile virus. James Bond finds out that not only was she the daughter of an important Japanese businessman, her entire family is also dead. James Bond travels to Japan in search of the killer. Here Bond reunites with his longtime friend Tiger Tanaka, who introduces him to a female Japanese agent who is later killed by the mutant virus.
Publication history[edit]
UK first hardback edition: May 2, 2002 Hodder & Stoughton
U.S. first hardback edition: June 6, 2002 Putnam
UK first paperback edition: June 9, 2003 Coronet Books
U.S. first paperback edition: May 2003 Jove Books
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Benson on Bond - The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers
2.Jump up ^ Lyons, William (28 August 2005). "New lease of life for 007's licence to kill". The Scotsman (Edinburgh). Retrieved 2006-07-20.
External links[edit]
Official Japanese 007 museum website
CBn The Man With The Red Tattoo Review
CBn Raymond Benson Interview, Part III
"Her Majesty's Secret Servant: Return of the Gaijin" (Michael Reed reviews The Man with the Red Tattoo)


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 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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Never Dream of Dying
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Never Dream of Dying
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2001 Coronet Books British paperback edition.

Author
Raymond Benson
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton

Publication date
 2001
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Never Dream of Dying, first published in 2001, was the seventh novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond (including film novelizations). Carrying the Ian Fleming Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Publication history
3 See also
4 References

Plot summary[edit]
It begins when a police raid goes horribly wrong, killing innocent men, women, and even children. Bond knows the Union is behind the carnage, and vows to take them down once and for all. His hunt takes him to Paris, into a deadly game of predator and prey, and a fateful meeting with the seductive Tylyn Mignonne, a movie star with a sordid past, who may lead Bond to his final target—or his own violent end. Eventually it leads him to the Union's latest attack on society, which involves Tylyn's husband, Leon Essinger, and his new movie, Pirate Island, which stars Tylyn. (US Paperback)
The conclusion to Benson’s Union Trilogy. Locations are Nice, Paris, Cannes, Monte Carlo, Corsica (also Los Angeles, Japan, and Chicago briefly).
Publication history[edit]
UK first hardback edition: May 3, 2001 Hodder & Stoughton
U.S. first hardback edition: June 2001 Putnam
UK first paperback edition: November 2001 Coronet Books
U.S. first paperback edition: May 2002 Jove Books
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]



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Ian Fleming

Casino Royale (1953) ·
 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
 Moonraker (1955) ·
 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 




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DoubleShot
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DoubleShot
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2000 Coronet Books British paperback edition.

Author
Raymond Benson
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton

Publication date
 4 May 2000
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
320 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-340-75168-1 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
43341081
DoubleShot, first published in 2000, was the sixth novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond (including film novelizations). Carrying the Ian Fleming Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam. The novel's working title was Doppelganger.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Publication history
3 See also
4 References

Plot summary[edit]
DoubleShot, the second novel in Raymond Benson's Union trilogy, again sets James Bond, 007 against the evil terrorist organization called the Union. Still smarting from their last encounter with 007 when he foiled their plans to get Skin 17 in High Time to Kill, the Union has decided that Britain and James Bond are their new number one priority, and targets. Coming up with an elaborate plan to plunge Britain into war and destroy Bond's reputation in the process, the Union sets up their scheme. Domingo Espada, a Spanish Nationalist/Gangster/Ex-Matador who wishes to see Gibraltar returned to Spain from Britain, is approached by Nadir Yassasin, the Union's master strategist, as the centrepiece to their plan. They plan to help Espada forcefully take control of Gibraltar, killing the British Prime Minister and the Governor of Gibraltar, and having a Bond-Double do it, thus ruining Bond's career and life. But first, through an elaborate series of events, they convince Bond he is losing his mind, and force him to investigate these happenings on his own, without approval from M or SIS.
Since Bond's return from the Himalayas, he begins experiencing terrible headaches, hallucinations, and black-outs. This leads him to Dr. Kimberly Feare. She diagnoses a lesion on the back of Bond's skull that is causing these symptoms. After getting Dr. Feare in bed, Bond wakes up to find her murdered, her throat slit ear-to-ear, the Union's mark. This causes Bond to leave England. Bond's trek takes him from England to Tangier, where he encounters the Taunt twins, Heidi and Hedy, CIA agents asked by M to bring him back to London. Here Bond finds the connection between the Union and Espada, and that he has some part in the Union's plan. Convincing M and the Taunts to play out his hand, Bond goes to Spain. On arrival in Spain, he encounters Margareta Piel, Espada's female assassin and a member of the Union. Followed closely by the climax of Bond vs. his double in Espada's practice bullfighting ring, and the culmination of the Union's plot at the Gibraltar peace conference, Bond takes his double's place and along with the Taunt twins, prevent the assassinations, kills Espada, Piel, Jimmy Powers (a high-ranking American in the Union, and their number one expert in stealth and tailing), and captures Yassasin, foiling the Union's plans once again.
Publication history[edit]
UK first hardback edition: April 2000 Hodder & Stoughton
U.S. first hardback edition: June 2000 Putnam
UK first paperback edition: August 3, 2000 Coronet Books
U.S. first paperback edition: June 2001 Jove Books
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Benson on Bond – The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers


[hide]
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James Bond novels and short stories


James Bond series



Ian Fleming

Casino Royale (1953) ·
 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
 Moonraker (1955) ·
 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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High Time to Kill
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High Time to Kill


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First edition cover

Author
Raymond Benson
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton

Publication date
 6 May 1999
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
304 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-340-73876-6 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
40681844
Preceded by
Midsummer Night’s Doom
Followed by
The World Is Not Enough
High Time to Kill, published in 1999, is the fourth novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming’s secret agent, James Bond (including Benson’s novelization of Tomorrow Never Dies). This is the first James Bond novel copyrighted by Ian Fleming Publications (formerly Glidrose Publications). It was published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam. The novel's working title was A Better Way to Die.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary 1.1 Locations
2 Publication history
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Plot summary[edit]
The world of James Bond is introduced to the ruthless terrorist organization called "The Union", whose brutal trademark is slashing the throat of those who cross them. Bond and his girlfriend Helena are attending a dinner party thrown by the Governor of The Bahamas. The Governor, who has a gambling debt with a member of The Union, has refused to pay up since he feels that he had been cheated, so there is much security detail at the event. However, the assassin disguises himself as one of the guards and kills the Governor, just as Bond realizes the danger. Bond almost catches the assassin but he commits suicide before he can be interrogated.
A top secret British formula hidden in microfilm, codenamed "Skin 17", is stolen by traitors; scientist Steven Harding and RAF officer Roland Marquis. The microdot is surgically implanted in the pacemaker of an unhealthy old man, who is a former Chinese intelligence agent. James Bond is sent in to recover it before the Union can sell the microfilm to a foreign power.
Bond tracks Harding and the Chinese ex-agent to Belgium, but the latter two slip away while Bond narrowly kills Harding's bodyguard Basil. MI6 tracks the Chinese man to Nepal. It turns out, however, that Harding planned to double-cross the Union, by having the plane of the pacemaker’s host hijacked. Le Gerrant, the blind leader of The Union, immediately deduces Harding's double-cross and has him executed; Harding's body later washes up on the beaches of Gibraltar.
The plane containing the pacemaker's host crashed into the Himalayas, so a deadly race commences to recover Skin 17. Bond, sexy mountaineer Hope Kendal, and Roland Marquis, also Bond's schoolboy-days rival, lead one of the expeditions. Early on, they successfully destroy the Chinese base camp, forcing that team to withdraw. Not long after, however, everyone on the British expedition has been killed, save for Bond, Hope, and Marquis. The race climaxes with Bond battling Marquis atop the peak of Kangchenjunga. It turns out that Marquis had collaborated with Harding to steal Skin 17, though they were not planning to sell it to The Union. After a physical high elevation fight, Bond trades oxygen to receive Skin 17 from a mortally wounded Marquis. As Bond and Hope return to base camp, they realize that it has been infiltrated by The Union as Paul Baack, having earlier faked his death while killing the rest of the team, demands Skin 17. Bond and Hope manage to kill Baack and Skin 17 is returned to the British.
Bond's now-estranged girlfriend Helena reveals herself to be in the employ of The Union due to blackmail and threats of violence to her family. However, she is killed just before Bond can reach her.
Locations[edit]
Locations where the book takes place include:
The Bahamas
London, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire—England
Belgium
Delhi, India
Morocco
Nepal
Mt. Kangchenjunga
Brighton, England
Publication history[edit]
UK first hardback edition: May 1999 Hodder & Stoughton
U.S. first hardback edition: June 1999 Putnam
UK first paperback edition: July 1999 Coronet Books
U.S. first paperback edition: June 2000 Jove Books
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Benson on Bond - The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers
External links[edit]
Commanderbond.net: “All Time High” (High Time to Kill review)
Her Majesty's Secret Servant: HMSS reviews Raymond Benson's High Time to Kill (by Michael Reed)


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Casino Royale (1953) ·
 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
 Moonraker (1955) ·
 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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The Facts of Death
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The Facts of Death
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1998 Coronet Books British paperback edition.

Author
Raymond Benson
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton

Publication date
 7 May 1998
Media type
Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages
284 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-340-69641-9 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
60165206
The Facts of Death, first published in 1998, was the third novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond (including Benson's novelization of Tomorrow Never Dies). Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright—the final James Bond novel to do so—it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam.
The novel's title was originally The World Is Not Enough, an English translation of the Latin phrase Orbis non sufficit, which appears in the novel and film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The title was later used for the nineteenth James Bond film, released in 1999.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary 1.1 Locations
2 Publication history
3 See also
4 References

Plot summary[edit]
The Facts of Death starts off with several deaths from mysterious diseases. We first find Bond in Cyprus where a number of British troops have been discovered murdered, under mysterious circumstances. Bond gets too close for comfort for the group behind the actions and is attacked, but rescued by a fiery Greek female agent, Niki Mirakos. Bond then returns to Britain. He is invited to attend a dinner party being held by his former boss, Sir Miles Messervy. His current boss and her boyfriend are in attendance. After the party M's boyfriend is murdered. She then tells Bond that all of the killings are connected because near all the bodies there were statues of Greek deities and numbers counting the victims of the horrible killing spree. Bond is sent to Greece and partnered with his current love interest Niki Mirakos. They both seem to be suspicious of an internationally known mathematic cult called the Decada. The head of the group is Greek mathematician, Konstantine Romanos. Bond goes to a Greek casino that is about two hours away from Athens and battles Romanos in a game of bacaraat. He defeats Romanos and catches the attention of a pretty Greek woman named Hera Volopoulos, who is also a card carrying member of the Decada. Bond chats with and later beds Hera. He then is drugged by her after they have made love. She takes him to Konstantine who talks to Bond and tells Hera to kill him. Bond manages to escape Hera's evil clutches. He then manages to figure out Konstantine's plan, to start a major war between Greece and Turkey. Bond figures out where the hideout is and gets there just in time to witness Hera murder Konstantine. She leaves Bond to stop a nuclear missile that will be fired from Greece into Turkey. Bond then figures out Hera's plan, to profit from worldwide murder through a new virus. Bond, with assistance from the Greek military, boards a helicopter and prepares for battle with Hera. He kills her and stops the missile.
Locations[edit]
Locations where the book takes place include:
Los Angeles
Tokyo
Austin, Texas
Cyprus
London
Greece
Publication history[edit]
UK first hardback edition: May 1998 Hodder & Stoughton
U.S. first hardback edition: June 1998 Putnam
UK first paperback edition: November 5, 1998 Coronet Books
U.S. first paperback edition: August 1999 Jove Books
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Benson on Bond - The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers


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Casino Royale (1953) ·
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 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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Zero Minus Ten
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Zero Minus Ten
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1998 British paperback edition.

Author
Raymond Benson
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Published
1997 (Hodder & Stoughton)
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
259 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
0-340-68448-8 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
38014268
Zero Minus Ten, published in 1997, is the first novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming's James Bond following John Gardner's departure in 1996. Published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in America by Putnam, the book is set in Hong Kong, China, Jamaica, England, and some parts of Western Australia.
Benson's working title for the novel was No Tears for Hong Kong; this was eventually used as the title for the last chapter in the novel.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Continuity
2 Plot summary
3 Major characters
4 Trivia
5 Release details
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

Continuity[edit]
According to Raymond Benson, as far as character continuity was concerned, he had been given free lease by Ian Fleming Publications (then Glidrose Publications) to follow or ignore other continuation authors as he saw fit.[2] Benson took a middle of the road approach to this. While Ian Fleming's novels are strictly canon, Gardner's novels are not strictly followed, though there are some aspects that are carried over. For instance, in Gardner's Win, Lose or Die Bond is promoted to Captain. This aspect does not carry over and in Benson's novels Bond is a Commander once again with no explanation. Some of Gardner's original recurring characters are also not present including Ann Reilly (aka Q'ute) who by the end of Gardner's era had taken over Q Branch from Major Boothroyd. Once again Benson ignores this and features Major Boothroyd with no explanation. Some of Gardner's changes do remain, however. Benson's Bond continues to smoke cigarettes from H. Simmons of Burlington Arcade, which was first introduced in Gardner's For Special Services (1982). Additionally, the Bond girls, Fredericka von Grüsse (Never Send Flowers / SeaFire), Harriet Horner (Scorpius), and Easy St. John (Death Is Forever) are all mentioned. Further novels by Benson also retain some aspects of Gardner's series though there is equally just as much that he ignores.
Some aspects of the films also carry over into Benson's continuation. M, for instance, is not Sir Miles Messervy, but the female M that was first introduced in the film GoldenEye (1995), although Gardner also introduced this character in his novelisation of that film and retained the character through his final novel COLD (1996). Bond also reverts to using his trusty Walther PPK, claiming he had switched to other guns (notably the ASP in Gardner's later novels), but felt that it was time he used it again. The follow-up to Zero Minus Ten, the novelization to Tomorrow Never Dies has Bond switching to the Walther P99. This remains Bond's main weapon throughout Benson's novels. Later novels by Benson also attempt to insert some of the characters from the films into his story. In The Facts of Death, for instance, Admiral Hargreaves is present at a party.
Plot summary[edit]
As the transfer of the sovereignty of Hong Kong from the British to the People's Republic of China nears, Bond is given ten days to investigate a series of terrorist attacks taking place that could disrupt the fragile handover and cause the breakout of a large-scale war. Simultaneously a nuclear bomb is test detonated in the Australian outback. In Hong Kong, Bond suspects and is led to a wealthy British shipping magnate, Guy Thackeray, who he catches cheating at mahjong at a casino in Macau. Later, after cheating the cheater and winning a large sum of Thackeray's money, Bond attends a press conference where Thackeray announces that he is selling his company, EurAsia Enterprises to the Chinese, secretly due to a long-forgotten legal document that grants the descendants of Li Wei Tam ownership of the company if the British were to ever lose control of Hong Kong. Because the descendants were claimed to have abandoned China, General Wong of the People's Republic of China claims the document on behalf of the government and forces Thackeray out. Immediately following the announcement Thackeray is killed in a car bomb by an unknown assassin after numerous previous attempts that claimed the lives of the entire board of directors at EurAsia Enterprises as well as several employees.
Through his Hong Kong contact, T.Y. Woo, Bond also investigates Li Xu Nan, the Triad head of the Dragon Wing society and the rightful descendant of Li Wei Tam. Li's identity as the Triad head is supposed to be a secret, though after Bond involves a hostess, Sunni Pei, 007 is forced to protect her from numerous Triads for breaking an oath of secrecy. When she is finally captured, Bond makes a deal, off the record, to go to Guangzhou and retrieve the long-forgotten document from General Wong that will give Li Xu Nan ownership of EurAsia Enterprises upon the exchange at midnight on July 1, 1997. Through Li's contacts, Bond successfully travels and meets General Wong in Guangzhou under the guise of a solicitor from England. Bond's cover is later blown and T.Y. Woo who followed Bond is executed. Bond avenges his friend's death by killing General Wong and stealing the document, which he hand delivers to Li Xu Nan and retrieves Sunni Pei.
With Li Xu Nan in Bond's debt, Bond uses Li's contacts to go to Australia to investigate EurAsia Enterprises and find a link between it and the nuclear blast. As it turns out Thackeray is very much alive and has been mining unreported uranium in Australia to make his own nuclear bomb, which he plans to detonate in Hong Kong at the moment the handover takes place in retaliation for his loss of his family's legacy. Returning to Hong Kong, Bond, Li Xu Nan, and a Captain with the Royal Navy track down Thackeray's nuclear bomb and defuse it. The battle claims the lives of Li Xu Nan as well as Thackeray's, who is drowned by Bond in the harbour.
Major characters[edit]
James Bond – British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond, is sent to investigate numerous terrorist attacks in Hong Kong as the transfer of the sovereignty of Hong Kong from the British to the People's Republic of China nears.
M – The successor to Sir Miles Messervy and the head of the British Secret Service, she sends Bond to investigate a number of terrorist attacks in Hong Kong that could potentially disrupt the fragile handover and cause the breakout of a large-scale war.
Guy Thackeray – A wealthy British shipping magnate, his company EurAsia Enterprises is being stripped from him when the handover takes place on July 1, 1997. In retaliation Thackeray uses his company to build, test, and attempt to detonate a nuclear bomb in Hong Kong making it uninhabitable.
General Wong – A general from the military of the People's Republic of China. Although he is a member of the Communist Party, he is a corrupt and greedy leader who attempts to claim EurAsia Enterprises not only for China, but for himself.
Li Xu Nan – The Triad head of the Dragon Wing Society. He is the rightful descendant of Li Wei Tam and by law should inherit EurAsia Enterprises when the handover takes place on July 1, 1997.
Sunni Pei – A "Blue Lantern" (associated non-member) of the Dragon Wing Society, she seemingly betrays Li Xu Nan by giving up his identity at a club to Bond. Subsequently, Bond feels obliged to protect her once a death warrant is issued for her by Li Xu Nan.
T.Y. Woo – Working for the British Secret Service station in Hong Kong, he meets James Bond upon his arrival. He later sets up Bond in a mahjong game at a casino in Macau so that Bond can meet and get to know Guy Thackeray.
Trivia[edit]
As the novel begins, Bond is in Jamaica at his newly purchased estate that he dubs "Shamelady". The estate was previously owned by a "well-known British journalist and author." The author is in fact Ian Fleming and the estate, Goldeneye, where Fleming wrote every James Bond novel till his death in 1964. Shamelady was suggested to Fleming in 1952 for Goldeneye by his wife, Ann Rothermere.[3] "Shame Lady" is another name for the plant mimosa pudica.[4]
Release details[edit]
1997, UK, Hodder & Stoughton (ISBN 0-340-68448-8),Pub date 3 April 1997, hardback edition (first edition)
1997, USA, Putnam (ISBN 0-399-14257-6), Pub date May 5, 1997, hardback edition (U.S. first edition)
1998, UK, Coronet Books (ISBN 0-340-68449-6), Pub date 5 March 1998, paperback edition
1998, USA, Jove Books (ISBN 0-515-12336-6), Pub date ? August 1998, paperback edition
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Working title: "No Tears for Hong Kong"". Q&A with Raymond Benson. Retrieved January 31, 2007.
2.Jump up ^ "Amis, Pearson, Gardner continuation". Q&A with Raymond Benson. Retrieved January 31, 2007.
3.Jump up ^ Pearson, John (1966). The Life of Ian Fleming. Vintage/Ebury. ISBN 0-224-61136-4.
4.Jump up ^ http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb/6.00/taxa/78.shtml
External links[edit]
No Tears for Hong Kong: the people and places of Zero Minus Ten, by Raymond Benson


[hide]
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James Bond novels and short stories


James Bond series



Ian Fleming

Casino Royale (1953) ·
 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
 Moonraker (1955) ·
 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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COLD (novel)
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COLD
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First UK edition cover

Author
John Gardner
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton

Publication date
 2 May 1996
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
264 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-340-65765-0 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
60303934
COLD, first published in 1996, was the sixteenth and final novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond (including Gardner's novelizations of Licence to Kill and GoldenEye). Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam.
In the United States, the book was retitled Cold Fall. This was the first time an original Bond novel had been given a different title for American book publication, other than for reasons of spelling, since Fleming's Moonraker was initially published there under the title Too Hot to Handle in the mid-1950s. The British title is properly spelled as an acronym (with no full stops), but it is also common to find it spelled Cold.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Major characters
3 See also
4 References

Plot summary[edit]
The novel is split into two books, one called "Cold Front" and the second entitled "Cold Conspiracy". The time between each book appears to be the time period allotted to Gardner's previous Bond outings, Never Send Flowers and SeaFire. The story opens with the crash of a Boeing 747-400 at Dulles International Airport in Fairfax and Loudoun counties, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., and the apparent death of Bond's friend and lover, the Principessa Sukie Tempesta. Bond is then sent by M to the airport with an investigation team which leads to meetings with FBI agent Eddie Rhabb.
The main action takes place in Italy at the home of the Tempesta brothers, Luigi and Angelo, where Bond gets caught in the act with one of the brothers' wives. As James later explains to M, the lady made the advances. The enemy of the story is provided by a terrorist army called COLD, which stands for Children Of the Last Days.
Major characters[edit]
James Bond – British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond. The FBI sends him to investigate the Tempesta brothers, as part of a complex operation to arrest them in America. The real motives behind the FBI involvement are to discover who is the master behind the COLD army, in which the Tempesta family has been admitted.
M – Sir Miles Messervy and the head of the British Secret Service. Age has finally caught up with him: after being kidnapped by COLD troops, he retires from the Service. At the end of the book is mentioned that the new M is a woman, putting everything in continuity with Goldeneye.
Luigi Tempesta - A suave Italian prince, that behind a facade of legitimate wealth pulls the strings of a colossal criminal empire.
General Brutus "Brute" Clay – A retired United States General, initially described as a crazy has-been with a passion for wargames and historical rievocation. Indeed, despite being borderline psycho, he's a brilliant tactician and the supreme chief of the Children Of the Last Days.
Publication history
1996, UK, Hodder & Stoughton (ISBN 0-340-65765-0), Pub date 2 May 1996, hardback (First edition)
1996, USA, Putnam (ISBN 0-399-14149-9), Pub date ? June 1996, hardback
1997, UK, Coronet Books (ISBN 0-340-65766-9), Pub date 5 September 1996, paperback
1997, USA, Berkley Books (ISBN 0-425-15902-7), Pub date ? July 1997, paperback
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]



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Casino Royale (1953) ·
 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
 Moonraker (1955) ·
 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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SeaFire
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SeaFire
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First UK Hardback cover

Author
John Gardner
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton

Publication date
 August 1994
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
ISBN
0-399-13938-9
OCLC
30510541

Dewey Decimal
 823/.914 20
LC Class
PR6057.A63 S37 1994
SeaFire, first published in 1994, was the fourteenth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond (including Gardner's novelization of Licence to Kill). Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Publication history
3 See also
4 References

Plot summary[edit]
With the help of his latest girlfriend Flicka von Grüsse, James goes after billionaire Sir Maxwell Tarn, who thinks he's the next Hitler. Captain Bond now works for MicroGlobe One rather than an ill M whom he visits to cheer up and keep informed of the plot. The global trail takes 007 to Puerto Rico via Spain, Israel and Germany.
During the story, Bond proposes to Flicka. An old friend reappears to aid James and split up this spy twosome.
Publication history[edit]
UK first hardback edition: August 1994 Hodder & Stoughton
U.S. first hardback edition: September 1994 Putnam
UK first paperback edition: May 1995 Coronet Books
U.S. first paperback edition: June 1995 Berkley Books
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]



[hide]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
James Bond novels and short stories


James Bond series



Ian Fleming

Casino Royale (1953) ·
 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
 Moonraker (1955) ·
 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 




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Never Send Flowers
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Never Send Flowers


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Coronet Books British paperback edition.

Author
John Gardner
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton

Publication date
 15 July 1993
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
256 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-399-13809-9 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
27677599

Dewey Decimal
 823/.914 20
LC Class
PR6057.A63 N48 1993
Never Send Flowers, first published in 1993, was the thirteenth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond (including Gardner's novelization of Licence to Kill). Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Book jacket
3 Publication history
4 See also
5 References

Plot summary[edit]
A murder in Switzerland of Laura March with MI5 connections follows assassinations in Rome, London, Paris & Washington. Left at each scene is a rose with marks of drops of blood on the petal. He also left a branch from an oak tree. Bond is sent to investigate where he meets the lovely Swiss agent Fredericka von Grüsse whom he later calls Flicka when on better terms.
Trails lead to a former international stage actor, David Dragonpol, a friend of March who lives in a castle on the Rhine called Schloss Drache which he is turning into a theatre museum. They also meet a widow and flower grower, Maeve Horton.
Book jacket[edit]
Illusion leads to murder as 007 pursues the wrong killer, in John Gardner's twelfth addition to the James Bond series.
When Laura March, on leave from the British Security Service, is murdered in Switzerland with a poison pellet shot from a powerful air rifle, James Bond and Swiss agent Fredericka "Flicka" von Grüsse are called in to investigate. While at Laura's funeral, Bond notices among the wreaths a perfect white rose, its petals tipped blood-red and an ambiguous note wired to the stem. His investigation reveals an identical rose and note at the funerals of four high-profile personalities, all assassinated with a week.
With no group claiming responsibility for the deaths, Bond focuses on Laura's case as an entrée to tracking the murderous spree. He uncovers her recently dissolved love affair with the world-famous actor David Dragonpol, now an eccentric collector of theatre memorabilia living in a castle on the Rhine. Bond and Flicka go undercover to search the castle for clues, and in the garden find roses just like the ones at each of the funerals.
Their joint discovery leads to a manhunt in which the identity of the serial killer is revealed. The action reaches its climax outside Paris, in EuroDisney.
Publication history[edit]
UK first hardback edition: July 1993 Hodder & Stoughton
U.S. first hardback edition: May 1993 Putnam
UK first paperback edition: May 1994 Coronet Books
U.S. first paperback edition: June 1994 Berkley Books
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]



[hide]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
James Bond novels and short stories


James Bond series



Ian Fleming

Casino Royale (1953) ·
 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
 Moonraker (1955) ·
 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 




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Death is Forever
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Death Is Forever
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Coronet Books British paperback edition.

Author
John Gardner
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton

Publication date
 1992
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
224 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-340-54816-9 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
26721121
Death Is Forever, first published in 1992, was the twelfth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond (including Gardner's novelization of Licence to Kill). Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam.
Death Is Forever is significant as the first James Bond novel to be published after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, two elements that were part and parcel of Bond's creation 40 years earlier.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Publication history
3 See also
4 References

Plot summary[edit]
The aftermath of the Cold War provides the setting for the plot of Death Is Forever. After the deaths of a British Intelligence agent and an American agent with the CIA working in Germany under mysterious and surprisingly old-fashioned circumstances, James Bond and CIA agent Elizabeth Zara ("Easy") St. John are assigned to track down the surviving members of "Cabal", a Cold War-era intelligence network that received a mysterious and unauthorized signal to disband. Soon, Bond finds himself playing a life-or-death game of "Who do You Trust?" as he and Easy track down Wolfgang Weisen, the power responsible for killing off Cabal's members one by one. Bond uncovers Weisen's plot to kill off the heads of each European country during the inaugural run of the Eurostar from London to Paris in an effort to create havoc in the west and usher in a second era of Communism.
More than most other Gardner novels, Death Is Forever is grounded in current events, with the fallout from the end of the Cold War and the failed 1991 Russian coup being important backdrops to the story. The Eurotunnel connecting England and France, which was still under construction at the time the book was written, also serves as a major setting.
Publication history[edit]
UK first hardback edition: July 1992 Hodder & Stoughton
U.S. first hardback edition: June 1992 Putnam
UK first paperback edition: July 1993 Coronet Books
U.S. first paperback edition: August 1993 Berkley Books
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]



[hide]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
James Bond novels and short stories


James Bond series



Ian Fleming

Casino Royale (1953) ·
 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
 Moonraker (1955) ·
 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 




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The Man from Barbarossa
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The Man from Barbarossa
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Hodder & Stoughton British hardcover edition.

Author
John Gardner
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton

Publication date
 1991
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-340-53124-X
OCLC
56651059
The Man from Barbarossa, first published in 1991, was the eleventh novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam.
More so than any previous Bond novel, The Man from Barbarossa acknowledges then-current world events. The story begins in January 1991 just prior to the end of the Persian Gulf War, and later includes a description of the early stage of the war against Iraq. Gardner also predicted that hardliners within the Soviet Union might attempt a coup against the government, which did occur later in 1991 but under different circumstances. The book also strongly suggests that the Cold War was soon to end, which did occur that year in December.
John Gardner has stated on many occasions that of the 007 novels he wrote, this is his favourite because it was different and had a more creative approach than all his previous attempts. Additionally, Gardner believes that of all his novels, this was also Glidrose's favourite as well, although the American publishers took a strong disliking to it.[1] Critics had a mixed reaction with many feeling it was one of Gardner's lesser Bond novels.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Characters
3 Publication history
4 See also
5 References

Plot summary[edit]
The Man from Barbarossa begins with a prelude that includes some background information on the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union codenamed Operation Barbarossa, the massacre at Babi Yar that occurred not long after, and information on Josif Voronstov, a fictional character said to be a deputy of real-life Paul Blobel who was primarily responsible for the massacre.
When the story begins, an elderly American living in New Jersey is kidnapped by a Russian terrorist group called the "Scales of Justice". The man, Joel Penderek, was captured under the belief that he is Josif Voronstov, the war criminal partially responsible for the massacre at Babi Yar. The group demands the Soviet government put the man on trial for his crimes, and begins murdering government officials when leaders refuse and are slow to react. The situation is slightly more complicated as the CIA and the Mossad believe Voronstov to be a man located in Florida who they had under surveillance.
Captain James Bond is partnered with an Israeli Mossad agent, Pete Natkowitz, and two agents from the French Secret Service, Henri Rampart and Stephanie Adoré. They are assigned to work with Bory Stepakov and his assistant Nina Bibikova from the KGB to infiltrate the Scales of Justice posing as a TV crew so as to discover their real motive. Accomplishing this, they learn that the group plans to sabotage perestroika and supply Iraq with nuclear weapons before the United Nations-led coalition invades.
The man behind the Scales of Justice, General Yevgeny Yuskovich, is a cousin of Josif Voronstov who is identified as Joel Penderek. The trial was staged in order to shift focus away from Yuskovich's other plans.
Characters[edit]
James Bond
M
Bill Tanner
Miss Moneypenny
Josif Voronstov: Deputy to Paul Blobel, the instigator of the massacre at Babi Yar. Said to have driven the victims to their deaths. Is actually Joel Penderek who is captured in Hawthorne, New Jersey by the Scales of Justice. Voronstov is put on a mock trial where it is discovered he is the cousin of General Yevgeny Yuskovich.
General Yevgeny Yuskovich: Yuskovich is the leader of the Scales of Justice and the primary villain of the novel. He attempts to sabotage perestroika and supply Iraq with nuclear arms.
Publication history[edit]
UK first hardback edition: August 1991 Hodder & Stoughton
U.S. first hardback edition: May 1991 Putnam
UK first paperback edition: 1991 Coronet Books
U.S. first paperback edition: January 1992 Berkley Books
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "John Gardner: The Bond Books". Archived from the original on 2006-06-15. Retrieved 2006-07-07.


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 Dr. No (1958) ·
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 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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Cold War spy novels
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Brokenclaw
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Brokenclaw
BrokenclawNovel.jpg
First UK hardback edition

Author
John Gardner
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton

Publication date
 July 1990
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-399-13541-3 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
21441940

Dewey Decimal
 823/.914 20
LC Class
PR6057.A63 B7 1990
Brokenclaw, first published in 1990, was the tenth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam. The book title is sometimes presented as two words, but is correctly one word since it is a character name.
Instead of picking up where the novelisation Licence to Kill left off, Brokenclaw completely ignores the story's events and continues from Win, Lose or Die.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Characters
3 Publication history
4 Trivia
5 See also
6 References

Plot summary[edit]
After expressing frustration over a lack of action after his year-long mission with the Royal Navy (as detailed in Win, Lose or Die), Bond threatens to resign. Instead, M orders Bond to take a vacation. Bond travels to Victoria, British Columbia where he is intrigued by Lee Fu-Chu, a half-Blackfoot, half-Chinese philanthropist who is known as "Brokenclaw" because of a deformed hand.
Later, Bond is ordered to San Francisco where he is tasked to investigate the kidnapping of several scientists who have been working on a new submarine detection system and an "antidote" known as LORDS and LORDS DAY. Bond and CIA agent Chi-Chi Sue go undercover using the codenames Peter Abelard and Héloïse that were assigned to two agents from the People's Republic of China that are sent to evaluate the submarine technology before purchasing it.
Ultimately, Bond discovers that Brokenclaw is involved in this scheme on behalf of China, and also has plans of his own which involve sparking a worldwide economic disaster by bringing about the collapse of the dollar by tapping into the New York Stock Exchange, which would in turn bring down other major currencies worldwide. The plan, dubbed Operation Jericho was a long-term plan initially started by the Japanese, but now believed to have been worked on simultaneously by the Chinese before being acquired by Brokenclaw.
Brokenclaw's hideout in California is raided by Special Forces after he is located by Naval Intelligence officer Ed Rushia who was searching and attempting to help Bond and Chi-Chi while on their mission. Brokenclaw escapes the raid only to be tracked down by Bond and Rushia, off the books, to the Chelan Mountains of Washington where Bond is challenged to a torture ritual known as o-kee-pa. In the end, the competition comes down to a fight between the two using bow and arrows; Brokenclaw barely misses Bond and in turn is shot through the neck by Bond's arrow.
Characters[edit]
James Bond
M
Bill Tanner
Ann Reilly
Brokenclaw: Half Chinese, half Blackfoot, he was born Lee Fu-Chu. He received the name "Brokenclaw" because of a deformity in his left hand where his thumb is on the right (viewing the palm up) rather than the left. Brokenclaw is a crime lord in San Francisco who has a large hold on the city's prostitution, gambling, and drug rackets. He also works for CELD (Central External Liaison Department), the intelligence service of the People's Republic of China, and possibly CCI (Central Control of Intelligence). Brokenclaw has managed to get his hands on a new technology that can detect submarine signatures which he plans to give to CELD. Additionally, Brokenclaw also plans to cause economic disaster by bringing about the collapse of the dollar. Ultimately Brokenclaw's plans are prevented by Bond. He later retreats to a getaway location in the Chelan Mountains of Washington. There he challenges Bond to a ritual known as o-kee-pa. During this competition he is shot by Bond in the neck with an arrow.
Miss Sue Chi-Ho: Known to her friends as Chi-Chi Sue or simply Chi-Chi, she is on loan from the CIA. She can speak fluent Cantonese and was previously a U.S. Naval Intelligence officer. She accompanies Bond on Operation Curve posing as Jenny Mo, an operative codenamed Héloïse from the People's Republic of China who was sent to evaluate Brokenclaw's submarine detection technology.
Ed Rushia: A Commander with U.S. Naval Intelligence. He is tasked with following Bond and Chi-Chi to ensure their safety throughout their mission. After Bond and Chi-Chi disappear, Rushia searches California for them. After eventually picking up their signal he helps Bond escape a deathtrap in which Bond is thrown to Brokenclaw's wolves. He later teams up with Bond, off the record, to find Brokenclaw in Washington after Brokenclaw's hideout is raided.
Wanda Man Song Hing: A Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy, Wanda is undercover posing as Brokenclaw's lover. Her father who owed Brokenclaw an enormous sum of money gave her (willingly to go undercover) to Brokenclaw as compensation. She is later discovered and as retribution her father is thrown to the wolves while she is badly tortured.
Agents Nolan and Wood: Crooked FBI agents who are working secretly for Brokenclaw. They discover Bond is not who he claims to be and capture him for Brokenclaw. They later capture Chi-Chi for Brokenclaw and attempt to hold her ransom. They are eventually arrested by Ed Rushia.
Publication history[edit]
U.S. first hardback edition: August 1, 1990 Putnam
UK first hardback edition: September 1990 Hodder & Stoughton
UK first paperback edition: October 1991 Coronet Books
U.S. first paperback edition: 1991 Berkley Books
Trivia[edit]
The local Victoria newspaper is referred to as the 'Times-Columnist'; it is actually called the Times-Colonist, referring to Vancouver Island's previous colonial status in the British Empire.
Although it has been established by Ian Fleming on numerous occasions that James Bond hates tea, in the opening chapters of the novel Bond drinks tea.
Peter Abelard and Héloïse, Bond and Chi-Chi's undercover names, is a reference to a legendary love affair.
John Gardner considered Brokenclaw to be one of his least favourite Bond books, in addition to Role of Honour. At the time Gardner wrote Brokenclaw he had just moved to the United States and had been recovering from a prostate cancer operation.
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]



[hide]
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James Bond novels and short stories


James Bond series



Ian Fleming

Casino Royale (1953) ·
 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
 Moonraker (1955) ·
 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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Win, Lose or Die
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Win, Lose or Die


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Coronet Books British paperback edition.

Author
John Gardner
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton

Publication date
 1989
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
220 pp
ISBN
ISBN 0-340-41524-X
OCLC
20012807
Win, Lose or Die, first published in 1989, was the eighth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder and Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam.
Beginning with this novel, and continuing for the remainder of the John Gardner series, Bond is promoted to the Royal Navy rank of Captain.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Characters
3 Publication history
4 Reviews
5 See also
6 References

Plot summary[edit]
M receives word that a terrorist organisation known as BAST (Brotherhood of Anarchy and Secret Terrorism) is planning to infiltrate and destroy a top-secret British Royal Navy aircraft carrier-based summit scheduled a year hence between American President George H. W. Bush, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Russian Premier Mikhail Gorbachev. To counteract this, James Bond is returned to active duty in the Royal Navy and promoted from Commander to Captain, in order to infiltrate the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible and identify potential sleeper agents.
In the months leading to the top-secret summit, Bond spends his time training at Yeovilton learning to fly a Navy Sea Harrier jet. With knowledge of Bond's task, BAST decides that Bond is a hindrance to their plans and attempts to kill him, once attempting to shoot him down while in his Sea Harrier during a training exercise. Later, when Bond goes on holiday in Italy, another attempt is made on his life. Bond escapes and, presumably, ends up taking the life of his then-current girlfriend, Beatrice Maria da Ricci.
Returning from holiday Bond boards HMS Invincible and is tasked with security for the secret summit referred to as the "Stewards' Meeting" all the while a massive war game is being carried out between American, British, and Soviet Navies known as Landsea '89. Before long Bond is at the centre of a murder investigation of an American Naval Intelligence officer, and while away to report the incident BAST has executed its plans to capture the ship and hold the world's three most powerful leaders for a 600 billion dollar ransom.
Characters[edit]
James Bond
M
Bill Tanner
Bassam Baradj: Born Robert Besavitsky in New York, Baradj is the main leader of BAST, codenamed "Viper." BAST's plot to take over and hold the world's three most powerful leaders was his idea. He is later shot by Beatrice Maria da Ricci in Gibraltar.
Abou Hamarik: Hamarik, codenamed "Snake," is the second of three leaders of BAST. He is able to infiltrate HMS Invincible by killing an American Naval Intelligence officer who has been called into replace another that was murdered on board the carrier. Hamarik is found out and is wounded by Nikki Ratnikov after he had taken Bond and a number of secret service agents from the three nations hostage. After the incident, Hamarik is arrested by Bond.
Clover Pennington: First Officer Clover Pennington is a Wren with the Royal Navy. She is secretly the third head of BAST, codenamed "Cat." Under Pennington's leadership while Bond is away BAST is able to take over the aircraft carrier with a number of supporters (all Wrens), who were aboard the ship for the Landsea '89 war game. Pennington is accidentally killed by one of her supporters after being used as cover and pushed into a room by Bond.
Beatrice Maria da Ricci: Ricci is a secret operative working for the British secret service who has been tasked with protecting Bond, specifically while on holiday. She is supposedly killed while on holiday in Italy with Bond, however, she makes a return later on, informing Bond that her death was appropriately faked in order to save Bond from another attempt on his life by BAST. She and Bond later team up to arrest Bassam Baradj, although ultimately she kills Baradj while saving Bond's life.
Nikki Ratnikov: Nikki Ratnikov is a secret service agent from Russia who was sent to protect Mikhail Gorbachev during the Steward's Meeting. She is killed by Abou Hamarik during an exchange of gunfire while on board HMS Invincible. During the exchange she successfully wounds Hamarik, which later leads to his arrest.
Publication history[edit]
UK first hardback edition: 1989 Hodder & Stoughton
U.S. first hardback edition: July 1989 Putnam
UK first paperback edition: 1990 Coronet Books
U.S. first paperback edition: 1990 Berkley Books
Reviews[edit]
Private Eye's anonymous critic complained that each Gardner book takes "Bond a further step or two away from the tall, resourceful ladykiller who first appeared in Casino Royale, and that "the real Bond atmosphere has been dead for upwards of 30 years." The critic also believed that Bond was a product of his times. "Gardner manages to remove most of the characteristics that made [Bond] interesting" and that the book's explosions, throat-cuttings and neck-breakings, "[have] an odd, perfunctory quality." The novel, "has none of Fleming's ability to build up tension or introduce detail casually. When Gardner talks knowledgeably about aircraft specifications the effect is only to reassure us that he has read the appropriate flight manual." The critic also accuses Gardner of "can't quite bring himself to take it seriously.[1]
Charles Champlin in The Los Angeles Times noted how different Fleming and Gardner are. "Ian Fleming wrote as a hedonist who prospered by dramatizing a life's worth of fantasies - acquisitions, indulgences, guilt-free sex and violence. John Gardner writes in Win, Lose or Die as a military affairs reporter who describes the operations of a Harrier VTOL aircraft as lovingly as Fleming described Pussy Galore. Gardner is long on facts, short on feelings. This is the eighth of the counterfeit James Bonds by Gardner." Commenting on the villain, Champlin writes, "Its leader, who intends to dispose of practically everyone, is as colorless a supervillain as ever Bond has faced. Call him Drabfinger." The book "is all so unamusing and juicelessly programmatic. The persistence of the series, despite these pallid copyings, is the ultimate tribute to the richness of Fleming's original invention.[2]
The Globe and Mail critic Margaret Cannon said, "this isn't Ian Fleming's James Bond, but the eighth book written by John Gardner, the recreator of Bond, and it's a far cry from the original. Bond, with his libido and gadgetry, is a creation of the fifties, when sex was furtive and gadgets were fun. Today, such authors as Tom Clancy serve up real technological frights that make all of Bond's plots seem like the innocent revels they are. Furthermore, Gardner's Bond is too American - too breezy and beefy - to be the real 007. This one needs to RIP."[3]
Kirkus Reviews said that, "Despite too many acronyms, too much artillery, and too many layers of deceptive identity, this is still one of Gardner's better Bonds, guaranteed to make you feel excited as well as a little foolish."[4]
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Moonraking it in". Private Eye. 4 August 1989.
2.Jump up ^ Champlin, Charles (July 16, 1989). Los Angeles Times. Available online.
3.Jump up ^ Cannon, Margaret (22 July 1989). "Murder & Mayhem: Crimes for days of gin and tonic". The Globe and Mail. p. C.17.
4.Jump up ^ "Win, Lose or Die". Kirkus Reviews. 15 June 1989. Available online.


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Casino Royale (1953) ·
 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
 Moonraker (1955) ·
 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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Scorpius (novel)
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Scorpius
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First edition

Author
John Gardner
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton

Publication date
 1 June 1988
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
224 pp
ISBN
0-340-41523-1
OCLC
17439410
Scorpius, first published in 1988, is the seventh novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton (the first original Bond novel not to be published by Jonathan Cape) and in the United States by Putnam.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Characters in "Scorpius"
3 Reception
4 Publication history
5 See also
6 References

Plot summary[edit]
After being connected to the death of a woman in London, Bond is called in by M to aid the investigation. Returning from Hereford, a Sergeant Pearlman tags along by driving Bond back, during which they are attacked and involved in a high-speed chase on an English motorway. Upon safely returning to headquarters, Bond is briefed on the investigation by M and Chief Superintendent Bailey. The woman, whom Bond does not know, was found dead with Bond's telephone number. She is a member of a cult society known as "The Meek Ones", operated by a Father Valentine. With additional information from the CIA, the British Secret Service learn that Valentine is an alias for Vladimir Scorpius, an arms dealer for several terrorist organisations.
As the country's general election approaches, by the use of brainwashed cult members, Scorpius has begun a "holy war" against every man, woman, and child. The cult members, thinking themselves to be pure, moral, and unsullied, sacrifice their lives for "the greater good of humanity" believing that by performing this "death task" that they will achieve paradise. Throughout the novel, The Meek Ones commit several acts of terrorism including multiple terrorist bombings and several assassinations of British politicians.
Throughout the horror, Bond meets Harriett Horner, an IRS agent working undercover in England and investigating a credit card company run by Scorpius. The two work together along with Pearlman to attempt to track down Scorpius. After an interrogation of a captured cult member, Horner is taken captive by Scorpius' men. Additionally, Pearlman confesses to Bond that he was secretly giving Scorpius information for the benefit of his daughter who had been brainwashed. Together the two set out for Scorpius' base of operations in South Carolina, having Scorpius believe Pearlman was taking Bond captive.
At Scorpius' island, Bond meets up with Horner once again and the two actually marry at the behest of Scorpius. Knowing that the marriage is invalid, Bond agrees to go ahead with it thinking it would buy him time until he can escape. On the night the two decide to escape, Harriett is killed by a water moccasin. At the same time the FBI is conducting a raid of Scorpius' island, which further angers Bond since her death was in vain. Bond returns to the island, finding Scorpius attempting to flee. After giving chase, Bond successfully gets the upper hand and forces Scorpius to die in a similar manner to that of Horner's death.
Characters in "Scorpius"[edit]
James Bond
M
Bill Tanner
Miss Moneypenny
Harriett Horner: An IRS agent secretly working in England undercover, she is found by Bond and later captured by Scorpius. At Scorpius' base, Bond and Horner pretend to marry, only for her to die a couple days later when attempting to flee Scorpius' island.
Sergeant Pearlman: Pearlman first meets Bond to deliver a message that he is requested by M. Pearlman drives Bond back and in doing so earns Bond's trust. Bond later learns, however, that Pearlman was secretly feeding Scorpius information because his daughter was brainwashed and a member of The Meek Ones. He confesses this much to Bond and requests help in getting his daughter free from the society. Unfortunately for Pearlman, when the opportunity arises, his daughter is sent on a "death task" to kill both the President of the United States and the British Prime Minister. She is unsuccessful and subsequently killed by Bond before she can detonate her explosives.
Chief Superintendent Bailey: Bailey is sent by Special Branch to aid in the investigation of the terrorist activities in England. From the beginning he is aiding Scorpius by giving him information that allow Scorpius to be always one step ahead of everyone. Bailey is shot and killed by Bond at the White House after attempting to witness the assassinations of both the President of the United States and the British Prime Minister.
Vladimir Scorpius: Scorpius, also known as Father Valentine is an arms dealer and the creator of the cult society, "The Meek Ones." By numerous sources he is considered to be Satan incarnate. After the death of Bond's "unofficial" wife, Bond returns to Scorpius' island and kills him in the same manner in which she died, although after forcing him outside and wounding him several times.
Reception[edit]
The Schenectady Gazette stated "Gardner has masterfully brought Bond into the modern era and done a credible job of recreating a legend."[1]
Publication history[edit]
UK first hardback edition: June 1988 Hodder & Stoughton
U.S. first hardback edition: May 1988 Putnam
UK first paperback edition: March 1989 Coronet Books
U.S. first paperback edition: January 1990 Charter Books
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ 'Scorpius' Is New Bond Tale Schenectady Gazette - Jul 22, 1988


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Casino Royale (1953) ·
 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
 Moonraker (1955) ·
 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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Hodder & Stoughton books


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No Deals, Mr. Bond
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No Deals, Mr. Bond
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First edition cover

Author
John Gardner
Cover artist
Trevor Scobie (Jonathan Cape ed.)
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy novel
Publisher
Jonathan Cape

Publication date
 21 May 1987
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
224 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-224-02449-3 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
15548761
No Deals, Mr. Bond, first published in 1987, was the sixth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond.[1] Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and in the United States by Putnam. It was the last Bond novel to be published in Britain by Jonathan Cape, ending an association dating back to the first Bond novel, Casino Royale in 1953.
No Deals, Mr. Bond has the minor distinction of being the first and, thus far, only non-novelisation James Bond novel to incorporate the agent's name into the title.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Characters
3 Publication history
4 Trivia
5 See also
6 References

Plot summary[edit]
No Deals, Mr. Bond begins with a mission in the Baltic Sea dubbed "Seahawk", which involves James Bond stealthily extracting two women that have completed an assignment in East Germany. After accomplishing his mission, the book continues 5 years later with Bond being called in by M to learn more background into what those women were doing there before being extracted. Their mission, dubbed Cream Cake, was a honey trap that involved getting close to top Soviet personnel as a means to not only spy for the British Secret Service, but to secure the defection of 2 highly ranking Soviet officers, an act that the Soviets occasionally performed against countries of the West. Involving 4 women and a man, the operation was considered a complete debacle that ended with the members being found out. After being extracted and given new identities, however, two of the women were discovered to be gruesomely murdered. Bond is subsequently sent by M, "off the record", to find the remaining members of Cream Cake before they suffer the same fate.
During the adventure, Bond believes that Colonel Maxim Smolin, the primary target during operation Cream Cake, is systematically killing off the former members of the Cream Cake operation and leaving a signature of having their tongues removed. This, however, is not the case, and, in actuality, Smolin is a turncoat now working with the British Secret Service. Instead, the former members, in addition to Smolin and another Soviet turncoat, Captain Dietrich, are being targeted by General Chernov, an agent of a department formerly known as SMERSH. The situation is further complicated after M gets a message to Bond warning him that one of the surviving Cream Cake members is a double and that he wants Chernov brought in alive.
Characters[edit]
James Bond
M
Ebbie Heritage: Her real name is Emilie Nikolas and she was a member of operation Cream Cake and was one of the two women that were extracted by Bond during Seahawk. Ebbie was tasked with meeting and seducing a Major in the East German Army.
Colonel Maxim Smolin: Born in 1946, Smolin, codenamed "Basilisk", was the prime target during the operation known as Cream Cake. At the time Smolin was the second in command of the HVA (the East German Intelligence Service). Smolin is also employed by the Soviet GRU. Unknown to the intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union, Smolin is a turncoat secretly working with the British Secret Service.
General Konstantin Nikolaevich Chernov: Codenamed "Blackfriar", Chernov (also known as Koyla Chernov) is the Chief Investigating Officer of Department Eight, Directorate S of the KGB, a section formerly known as Department V (see Icebreaker), and before that formerly SMERSH. Chernov is systematically targeting the former members of Cream Cake as well as Colonel Maxim Smolin and Captain Dietrich who have since defected. Chernov is arrested by Bond in Hong Kong by orders of M.
Heather Dare: Her real name is Irma Wagen and she was a member of operation Cream Cake. Dare was tasked with meeting and seducing Colonel Maxim Smolin. Dare was also one of the two women that was extracted by Bond during Seahawk. She is later discovered to be an agent of the KGB and working for General Chernov. Under orders by M that the Cream Cake double be eliminated, Dare is essentially executed by Bond after being disarmed, an act Bond performs without remorse.
Inspector Norman Murray: an inspector for the Republic of Ireland's Special Branch. He lends aid to Bond (known to Murray as "Jacko B") while Bond is in the Republic of Ireland. Secretly, however, Murray is on Chernov's payroll and eventually turns on Bond. He is later killed in Hong Kong by Bond.
Publication history[edit]
Gardner states that he was opposed to this novel being given the title No Deals, Mr. Bond, a title he calls "dreadful" along with other titles suggested by his publishers including Oh No, Mr. Bond! and Bond Fights Back. Gardner originally suggested the title Tomorrow Always Comes.[2]
UK first hardback edition: May 1987 Jonathan Cape
U.S. first hardback edition: April 1987 Putnam
UK first paperback edition: 1987 Coronet Books
U.S. first paperback edition: April 1988 Charter Books
Trivia[edit]
At one point Gardner makes a reference to Kingsley Amis as an author of novels that some officers in the book are interested in. Amis wrote the first James Bond continuation novel in 1968, titled Colonel Sun under the pseudonym Robert Markham.
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ MI6 :: The Home Of James Bond 007
2.Jump up ^ John Gardner The Bond Page


[hide]
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James Bond novels and short stories


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Ian Fleming

Casino Royale (1953) ·
 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
 Moonraker (1955) ·
 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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Nobody Lives for Ever
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Nobody Lives for Ever
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First edition cover.

Author
John Gardner
Cover artist
Trevor Scobie (Jonathan Cape ed.)
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Jonathan Cape

Publication date
 26 June 1986
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
192 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-224-02861-8 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
13271769
Nobody Lives for Ever (published in American editions as Nobody Lives Forever), first published in 1986, was the fifth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond.[1] Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and in the United States by Putnam.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Characters
3 Cover Art
4 Publication history
5 Reception
6 See also
7 References

Plot summary[edit]
En route to retrieve his faithful housekeeper, May, from a European health clinic where she is recovering from an illness, Bond is warned by the British Secret Service that Tamil Rahani, the current leader of SPECTRE, now dying from wounds suffered due to his last encounter with Bond (as described in Role of Honour), has put a price on Bond's head. "Trust no one," Bond is warned. Soon after, May and Miss Moneypenny, who had been visiting his housekeeper are reported missing, and Bond finds himself dodging would-be assassins while searching for his friends, assisted by a young débutante and her capable, yet mysterious, female bodyguard.
The price on Bond's head is a competition orchestrated by Rahani and SPECTRE known as 'The Head Hunt', and is an open contest to anyone willing to capture, kill, or present Bond to Rahani, where he would be subsequently decapitated by guillotine. Along Bond's journey of attempting to rescue Moneypenny and May, Bond is betrayed and chased by a number of people and organisations, including his own British Secret Service ally, Steve Quinn who has defected to the KGB, corrupted police officers, and agents of SPECTRE in disguise.
Characters[edit]
James Bond
M
Miss Moneypenny
May Maxwell
Principessa Sukie Tempesta: is an Italian Princess whom Bond saves while driving to check up on his Scottish housekeeper, May. He later sees her again and offers to drive her home to Rome; however, these plans are cut short after Bond learns of the price on his head. She stays with Bond acting as a hostage and later refusing to leave his side in his moment of need. She is accompanied after her second meeting with Bond by her friend and bodyguard, Nannie.
Nannette 'Nannie' Norrich: is the head of an all-female bodyguard organisation, NUB, tasked to protect Sukie. The two are good friends; however, Sukie is unaware that Nannie has entered the competition as freelance and has promised Rahani of delivering Bond to him.
Herr Doktor Kirchtum: is the doctor who was overseeing May while she was at the clinic. After Moneypenny and May were kidnapped, Kirchtum was taken captive by Steve Quinn and forced to send instructions to Bond. Bond later frees Kirchtum only to learn later that Kirchtum was actually in league with Quinn. Kirchtum is subsequently killed by either Nannie or Sukie (the identity is never given) upon attempting to rescue 007 from Kirchtum and Quinn's clutches.
Steve Quinn: is the British Secret Service's man in Rome. He is sent by M to assist Bond in fleeing mainland Europe so that Bond can return to London. Unbeknownst to everyone, Quinn has defected to the KGB and currently works for SMERSH (currently called Department Eight). Quinn is assisted in capturing Bond by Doktor Kirchtum, who likewise to Kirchtum is subsequently killed by either Nannie or Sukie (the identity is never given) upon attempting to rescue 007 from Kirchtum and Quinn's clutches.
Tamil Rahani: is the leader of SPECTRE, previously in Role of Honour. After parachuting from an airship at the end of Role of Honour to escape capture by Bond, he landed badly and injured his spine causing an incurable disease. Throughout the book Rahani is said to only have days to live. Knowing the end is near Rahani creates a competitive contest, the 'Head Hunt', for any person or organisation willing to capture James Bond. Rahani is killed by Bond after having his bed rigged to detonate upon pushing a button that would normally allow Rahani's bed to raise up.
Cover Art[edit]
Nobody Lives for Ever is the last time (to date) the trademark 'wood grain' cover art has been used on a Bond novel. It was first seen on From Russia, with Love in 1957.
Publication history[edit]
UK first hardback edition: June 1986 Jonathan Cape
U.S. first hardback edition: May 1986 Putnam
Thai language first edition: December 1986 Kangaroo (Jing Jo) Press
UK first paperback edition: August 1987 Coronet Books
U.S. first paperback edition: July 1987 Charter Books
Reception[edit]
Critics were generally more enthusiastic about this Gardner Bond novel than his previous entries.
Publishers Weekly praised the book noting that on the basis of this entry Bond is likely to live forever. "In true comic-book fashion, the gory chapters detail the horrors that kill almost everyone except Bond who obviously won't die until he wants to."[2]
Kirkus Reviews called this the "most deft" of Gardner's Bond novels thus far, though felt that it did not measure up to Gardner's own 1985 straight spy novel The Secret Generations. The anonymous reviewer praised the "fairly inspired" plot gimmick involving hunt for Bond's own head. "Gardner weaves swift, outrageous coincidences into a preposterous plot that is quite fun to follow as it hops from the Tyrolean Alps to Salzburg to Key West. All in all, Gardner avoids some of the giganticism of the Bond flicks but certain climactic cliches - granted Bond's megalomaniacal villains - by now seem unavoidable, Even so, one dismisses the cliches for the amusement."[3]
Frank Stilley, in a review for the Associated Press syndicated throughout the United States, said Gardner "lacks nothing" of Ian Fleming's gift for "conveying agaonizing suspense" and that "the yearn is a cinch" to please "James Bond's countless fans".[4]
Don O'Briant, books editor for The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution said the book was an "exciting adventure" and noted it in his roundup of the year's best books.[5]
Future Bond author Raymond Benson said "This is far and away John Gardner's best James Bond novel, and it is precisely because it is such a personal plot for the leading character. It's a plot reminiscent of From Russia, With Love, and it moves along excitingly! The chase idea was splendid indeed, and the reader is chased along with Bond throughout the book." Benson praised the story's "many surprising turns" and believed that if it were a film it would "have much of the same tension that something like Hitchcock's North by Northwest had." Benson's only complaint was the lack of a central villain, though praised the "well-written female characters (Sukie Tempesta and Nannie Norrich)" who accompany Bond.[6]
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ MI6 :: The Home Of James Bond 007
2.Jump up ^ anonymous. "Nobody Lives Forever". Publishers Weekly.
3.Jump up ^ anonymous (15 April 1986). "Nobody Lives Forever". Kirkus Reviews.
4.Jump up ^ Stilley, Frank (27 September 1986). "James Bond just keeps going on". The Free Lance–Star (Fredericksburg, Virginia). p. 9.
5.Jump up ^ O'Briant, Don (28 December 1986). "Literary losers and winners of the year". p. F/8.
6.Jump up ^ Benson, Raymond (October 1995). "Gardner's World". 007 Magazine (28).


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James Bond novels and short stories


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Ian Fleming

Casino Royale (1953) ·
 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
 Moonraker (1955) ·
 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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Role of Honour
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Role of Honour
RoleofHonourFirst.jpg
First edition cover

Author
John Gardner
Cover artist
Trevor Scobie (Jonathan Cape ed.)
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Jonathan Cape

Publication date
 1984
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
224 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-224-02973-8 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
11303086
Role of Honour, first published in 1984, was the fourth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond.[1] Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and in the United States by Putnam.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Characters
3 Cars
4 Publication history
5 Reviews
6 See also
7 References

Plot summary[edit]
After receiving a large inheritance, James Bond 007 is accused of improprieties and drummed out of the British Secret Service. Disgusted with his former employers, Bond places his services on the open market, where he later attracts the attention of representatives of SPECTRE who are quite willing to put their one-time enemy on their payroll. But the whole thing was a hoax, just a plan to get Bond inside the enemy's organization.
Prior to joining up, Bond spends a month in Monte Carlo with Miss 'Percy' Proud, a CIA agent who teaches him everything she knows about programming languages and computers in general. This background allows Bond to attract Jay Autem Holy, an agent of SPECTRE who left the Pentagon, faked his death, and later started a computer game company that creates simulations based on real-life battles and wars.
Bond's allegiance to SPECTRE is periodically questioned throughout the novel, even at one point going so far as to send Bond to a terrorist training camp (known as "Erewhon") to see if he has 'the right stuff'. Proving his worth, Bond becomes involved in a plot to destabilise the Soviet Union and the United States, by forcing them to rid the world of their nuclear weapons.
What SPECTRE leaders Tamil Rahani and Dr. Jay Autem Holy suspect, but never fully realise is that Bond's resignation is false. Along with Bond, the Secret Service plays a vital role in foiling SPECTRE; however, Rahani, the current leader of SPECTRE is able to escape Bond's clutches by parachuting out of an airship over Switzerland.
Characters[edit]
James Bond
M
Bill Tanner
Q
Persephone 'Percy' Proud: Formerly Mrs. Jay Autem Holy. Percy is a CIA agent who went deep undercover by marrying Holy. After Holy's faked death, she teams with Bond to teach him everything she knows about Holy and everything she knows about programming languages and computers in general.
Jay Autem Holy: supposedly died in a plane crash, prior to the events in Role of Honour. He now goes under the name Jason St. John Finnes and is secretly an agent of SPECTRE. Holy is an elite computer programmer once working for The Pentagon; he now owns and manages a software company that develops computer game simulations based on real-life wars and battles. He is the former husband of Percy Proud and current husband to Dazzle. Holy is killed by Rahani after finding out he was betrayed.
General Rolling Joe Zwingli: is an accomplice Jay Autem Holy and long-time friend. He also was supposedly killed in the plane crash. Zwingli is killed by one of Rahani's personnel after finding out he was double-crossed.
Tamil Rahani:Part American, part Lebanese, he is the chairman and principal shareholder of Rahani Electronics and secretly the head of SPECTRE. He manages the Erewhon terrorist training camp along with his right-hand man, Simon. Unlike most of the villains in a James Bond novel or film, Rahani actually lives and flees from capture. Bond is later informed that Rahani was secretly having a love affair with Dazzle, Holy's second wife.
Freddie Fortune: is an informant for Bond that he uses to get closer to Holy.
Cindy Chalmer: is a programmer who works for Holy at Endor. She is in league with Percy and an informant for her and the CIA.
Peter Amadeus: is a programmer who works for Holy at Endor. He later escapes with the help of Bond and is used by the British Secret Service to one-up SPECTRE. He later takes a job within the Secret Service as a computer programmer.
Cars[edit]
Bond purchases a brand new British racing green Bentley Mulsanne Turbo with magnolia interior. Likewise with the Silver Beast, Bond had CCS outfit the car with a long-range telephone and a hidden weapon compartment. Bentley had apparently requested that Gardner not outfit the car with any gadgets other than the telephone.
Publication history[edit]
UK first hardback edition: October 1984 Jonathan Cape
U.S. first hardback edition: September 1984 Putnam
UK first paperback edition: 1985 Coronet Books
U.S. first paperback edition: May 1985 Berkley Books
Reviews[edit]
Kirkus Reviews dismissed the book as "a ragged quickie that's cartoon caper/sleuth action most of the way through (like an old episode of TV's The Avengers). Virtually no humor, virtually no suspense, and virtually no charm or sexiness in old 007 - making this by far the weakest of Gardner's somewhat pre-sold fabrications, with some extra appeal only for computer fans."[2]
The West Coast Review of Books said that "John Gardner does a good job of work in picking up the torch from the late Ian Fleming, but the freshness of the early Bond books is missing; also, 007's predictable heroics have begun to bore. One can accept a charmed - and charming - character just so long."[3]
The Globe and Mail crime critic Derrick Murdoch wrote that although Gardner "could outperform Fleming easily in most technical respects he lacked Fleming's gift for simple-minded razzle-dazzle extravaganzas and Penthouse-style dream girls." He called Role of Honour "something of a disappointment, although some of Bond's old admirers may welcome it." He complained that the novel was both familiar and confusing.[4]
Long-time Gardner admirer and Listener crime critic Marghanita Laski said "John Gardner has gradually worked himself into his own role as owner-creator of James Bond, but his Bond is more intelligent, more sensitive than the original."[5]
Novelist Jessica Mann, writing for British Book News, said Role of Honour "hits the spot and will give great pleasure to fans both on the page, and, presumably, on the screen."[6]
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ MI6 :: The Home Of James Bond 007
2.Jump up ^ "Role of Honor". Kirkus Reviews. 15 August 1984. Available online.
3.Jump up ^ "Role of Honor". The West Coast Review of Books. 1985. p. 31.
4.Jump up ^ Murdoch, Derrick (27 October 1984). "It's a Crime: Doggy derring-do and new experiments in Bondagerie". The Globe and Mail. p. E.17.
5.Jump up ^ Laski, Marghanita (25 October 1984). "Literature as Death". The Listener. p. 29.
6.Jump up ^ Mann, Jessica (January–February 1985). "Crime Fiction". British Book News. p. 138.


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James Bond novels and short stories


James Bond series



Ian Fleming

Casino Royale (1953) ·
 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
 Moonraker (1955) ·
 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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Icebreaker (novel)
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Not to be confused with Icebreaker (Suvorov).
Icebreaker
IcebreakerFirst.jpg
First edition cover

Author
John Gardner
Cover artist
Bill Botten (Jonathan Cape ed.)
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Jonathan Cape

Publication date
 7 July 1983
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
256 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-224-02949-5 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
10349437
LC Class
PR6057.A63 I2x 1983b
Icebreaker, first published in 1983, was the third novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond.[1] Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and is the first Bond novel to be published in the United States by Putnam, beginning a long-standing association.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Characters
3 Publication history
4 Reviews
5 See also
6 References

Plot summary[edit]
Bond reluctantly finds himself recruited into a dangerous mission involving an equally dangerous and treacherous alliance of agents from the United States (CIA), the Soviet Union (KGB) and Israel (Mossad). The team, dubbed "Icebreaker", waste no time double-crossing each other. Ostensibly their job is to root out the leader of the murderous National Socialist Action Army (NSAA), Count Konrad von Glöda. The Count used to be known as Arne Tudeer, a one-time Nazi SS officer who now perceives himself as the new Adolf Hitler. The National Socialist Action Army is essentially a new wave of fascism as a means to wipe out communist leaders and supporters around the world.
The novel is full of double-crosses and even triple-crosses where the agents and agencies go without sharing their true loyalties with one another. The American agent, for instance, first appears to be a good guy then later in cahoots with von Glöda, and then still even later a good guy once again. Things become even more complicated when the Israeli agent, Rivke, is revealed to be the daughter of von Glöda/Tudeer and her allegiance, although appearing to be legitimate, in doubt. The Russian agent also double-crosses Bond in hopes of capturing him for KGB interrogation.
Bond gets several weeks of driving training from Erik Carlsson as preparation for this Arctic assignment.
Characters[edit]
James Bond
M
Paula Vacker: is a frequent love interest of James Bond that he visits virtually every time he is in Helsinki. During the course of the novel, her loyalty to him is questioned, initially appearing totally innocent, then in league with von Glöda, and finally discovered to be a deep under cover agent for Supo.
Brad Tirpitz: is a member of the Icebreaker team and an agent from the CIA. He is later discovered by Bond to be in league with the National Socialist Action Army and to have killed the real agent Tirpitz and taken his place; he claims, his name is actually Hans Buchtman and is described as von Glöda's Heinrich Himmler. Buchtman, however, turns out to be an alias of Brad Tirpitz, who created this back-story as a way to gain entry into von Glöda's organisation; indeed, he actually works and is loyal to the CIA.
Kolya Mosolov: is a KGB agent who is a member of the Icebreaker team. He is discovered to have planned the entire Icebreaker team in coordination with von Glöda. The two have a deal in which Mosolov would betray his country and sell arms to von Glöda in exchange for the capture of secret agent 007. Mosolov being not only an agent of the KGB, but also an agent working within "Department V", a department formerly known as SMERSH; Bond's main nemesis throughout the Ian Fleming novels. Mosolov believes that von Glöda will not succeed and is merely going along with the deal for the time being in order to capture Bond for the Soviets.
Rivke Ingber: is a member of the Icebreaker team and an agent working for the Mossad. She is discovered to actually be Anni Tudeer, the daughter of Count von Glöda (aka Aarne Tudeer). Rivke plays both sides, initially acting like she is disgusted with her father's past, but later actually being discovered to be in league with him, thinking of herself as a future Führer.
Count Konrad von Glöda: is the mastermind behind the National Socialist Action Army and self-declared Führer. His real name is Aarne Tudeer, a low-level SS officer wanted by the Allies for crimes during the Second World War. He attempts to bring back fascism by targeting communist leaders and supporters around the world.
Publication history[edit]
Gardner reveals that his publisher originally rejected the title Icebreaker, only to come back to it after rejecting "turkey after turkey" in terms of alternate titles.[2]
Icebreaker was released in Finland under a title Tehtävä Suomessa, James Bond (Mission in Finland, James Bond), as part of the book takes place in Finland.
UK first hardback edition: July 7, 1983 Jonathan Cape
U.S. first hardback edition: April 1983 Putnam
UK first paperback edition: 1984 Coronet Books
U.S. first paperback edition: May 1984 Berkley Books
Reviews[edit]
The New York Times critic Anatole Broyard believed that John Gardner was underqualified to write Bond. "His book strikes me as deficient in many of the basic requirements. Mr. Gardner is all awkwardness. Every time I try to enter into his latest conspiracy we bump heads. It's one thing to accept an improbable plot and quite another to accept an improbable style. I'm willing to suspend my disbelief, but not my affection for the English language. I don't see why, when Mr. Gardner can learn all about the various weapons, machines and intelligence procedures he describes, he can't do a bit of basic research in ordinary narrative technique. A man who has no talent for describing women, for example, should let them alone." Broyard cited numerous examples of cliched writing and dismissed the plot as "a muddle".[3]
T. J. Binyon writing in The Times Literary Supplement believed the book was "full of good action; his torture scenes are splendidly painful; his villain is adequately megalomaniac, though perhaps not sufficiently outre; his girls are pretty, sexy, and available, and the courting routines as embarrassingly obvious as anything in the original. But in the end Gardner's Bond doesn't really measure up to Fleming's. There isn't that maniacal snobbery about trivial and useless detail which the original so endearingly manifests. And, further, Gardner simply hasn't grasped Bond's most important trait: he only takes assignments where his creator would like to take a holiday. And who on earth would want to holiday in the 'desolate Arctic wastes of Lapland'? Certainly not the luxurious Bond." [4]
People Magazine's anonymous reviewer said that "the action in Icebreaker is fitful at best" and that the book was "not at all up to Gardner's (first) 007 outing, License Renewed. The Russian villain, however, is an original and sometimes interesting menace."[5]
Whereas The Globe and Mail crime critic Derrick Murdoch believed Icebreaker was Gardner's best Bond novel thus far. "In most technical respects (writing, plotting and minor-character sketching), he is more skilful and more painstaking than Fleming even attempted to be. On the other hand, nobody since the Grimm brothers could equal Fleming's gift for improvising such audaciously grotesque adversaries as Dr. No, Blofeld, Auric Goldfinger and his henchman, Oddjob. To make up for the lack of gnomes or behemoths, Gardner offers a plot of labyrinthine complexity, subtler than any of Fleming's. In short, he has taken more risks in Icebreaker to display his own talents, and it has paid off.".[6]
Mel Watkins writing in The New York Times Book Review praised Gardner for adding "a touch of the plot subtlety of less insistently action-oriented thrillers." He also applauded Gardner's updating of Bond. "Although Mr. Gardner's Bond is less raffishly macho and arrogant than previously depicted," observed Watkins, "the spirit of the 007 series remains intact, and few Fleming admirers are likely to object. There is, in fact, something appealing about a James Bond who can react to women with some sympathy and confusion at a crucial moment." [7]
Long-time Gardner admirer and Listener crime critic Marghanita Laski believed Icebreaker "is one of his best yet in his 007 mode." She especially admired the book's Finnish setting which she said "has been good thriller value since Gavin Lyall introduced it.[8]
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ MI6 :: The Home Of James Bond 007
2.Jump up ^ John Gardner The Bond Page
3.Jump up ^ Broyard, Anatole (9 April 1983). "Revised James Bond". New York Times. Available online.
4.Jump up ^ Binyon, T. J. (22 July 1983). Times Literary Supplement.
5.Jump up ^ "Picks and Pans". People. 2 May 1983. Available online.
6.Jump up ^ Murdoch, Derrick (23 July 1983). "It's a Crime: Second thoughts about 007, the literary step-child". The Globe and Mail. p. E.14.
7.Jump up ^ Watkins, Mel (24 April 1983). "Fiction in Brief". The New York Times Book Review. Available online.
8.Jump up ^ Laski, Marghanita (11 August 1983). "Death with deep feeling". The Listener. p. 24.


[hide]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
James Bond novels and short stories


James Bond series



Ian Fleming

Casino Royale (1953) ·
 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
 Moonraker (1955) ·
 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations



Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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For Special Services
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For Special Services
For Special ServicesFirst.jpg
First edition cover

Author
John Gardner
Cover artist
Bill Botten (Jonathan Cape ed.)
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Jonathan Cape

Publication date
 September 1982
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
256 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-224-02934-7 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
8852827
For Special Services, first published in 1982, was the second novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond.[1] Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and in the United States by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan.


Contents  [hide]
1 For Special Services
2 Plot summary
3 Characters
4 Car
5 Publication history
6 Reviews
7 See also
8 References

For Special Services[edit]
In June 1941 General William Donovan was appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt to the position of Coordinator of Information (COI), a position that later transformed into the chairmanship of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Upon request by Donovan, Ian Fleming was contacted to write a lengthy memorandum describing the structure and functions of a secret service organisation. Parts of this memorandum were later used in the official charter for the OSS, which was later dissolved after World War II in 1945. For appreciation of Fleming's work Donovan presented Fleming with a .38 Police Positive Colt revolver with the inscription, "For Special Services."
In 1944, Donovan proposed to President Roosevelt the creation of a new agency, "which will procure intelligence both by overt and covert methods and will at the same time provide intelligence guidance, determine national intelligence objectives, and correlate the intelligence material collected by all government agencies." This organisation was later established in 1947 as the Central Intelligence Agency; a direct descendant of the OSS.
Plot summary[edit]
Bond teams up with CIA agent Cedar Leiter, daughter of his old friend, Felix Leiter, to investigate one Markus Bismaquer, who is suspected of reviving the criminal organisation SPECTRE, which was believed to have been disbanded years earlier following the death of its leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, at the hands of Bond (in You Only Live Twice).
The British Secret Service learns that Bismaquer is an obsessive collector of rare prints, so Bond and Cedar visit the man's huge ranch in Amarillo, Texas posing as art dealers. Their true identities are soon revealed, but not until Bond holds his own both in an impromptu (and fixed) car race arranged by Bismaquer, and in the bed of Bismaquer's frustrated wife, Nena. Nena, who has only one breast, quickly wins Bond's heart and his sympathy and Bond is convinced that Bismaquer is the one now being referred to as the new Blofeld.
Bond discovers that the revitalised SPECTRE plans to take over control of NORAD headquarters in order to gain control of America's military space satellite network. His true identity revealed, Bond is captured and brainwashed into believing he is an American general assigned to inspect NORAD. Although he has been set up to be killed in the ensuing attack by SPECTRE forces on the base, Bond regains his personality and his memory. Apparently Bismaquer, who is bisexual, has taken a liking to Bond and sabotaged the hypnosis.
When Bond returns to Bismaquer's ranch, he witnesses Bismaquer being killed by Nena, who is in fact the mind behind the operation and the daughter of Blofeld, a fact she confesses to Bond just before falling into the crushing grip of her pet pythons. She is later put out of her misery by Felix Leiter, who arrives on the scene to help rescue his daughter.
Characters[edit]
James Bond
M
Ann Reilly
Cedar Leiter
Felix Leiter
Markus Bismaquer: Bismaquer, married to Nena Bismaquer, is a collector of fine prints and the owner of an ice cream plant in Amarillo, Texas. He is believed to be either a direct descendent or a confidant of Ernst Stavro Blofeld and to have resurrected the evil organization SPECTRE Gardner alludes, on more than one occasion, that Bismaquer in truth is a homosexual and possibly had fallen for Bond.
Walter Luxor: Is Bismaquer's partner and a high-ranking member of SPECTRE At one point he is believed to be a revived Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Mike Mazzard: Is a member of SPECTRE tasked to bring Bond to Amarillo. After Bond objects this offer, Mazzard attempts to kill Bond in Washington D.C.. Mazzard also aids Luxor in infiltrating NORAD HQ.
Nena Bismaquer: Is the wife of Markus Bismaquer. She later turns out to be the daughter of Ernst Stavro Blofeld and the successor and leader of SPECTRE.
Car[edit]
This is the second novel in Gardner's Bond series in which Bond drives a Saab 900 Turbo; however, this is the first book in which the car's colour is mentioned and it is referred to by its more popular nickname, the Silver Beast.
Publication history[edit]
UK first hardback edition: September 1982 Jonathan Cape
U.S. first hardback edition: April 1982 Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
UK first paperback edition: 1982 Coronet Books
U.S. first paperback edition: April 1983 Berkley Books
The U.S. hardcover had a first printing of 95,000 copies.[2]
Reviews[edit]
Many critics were scathing. Kingsley Amis, himself a former Bond author, was the harshest. His Times Literary Supplement review called the book "an unrelieved disaster", Gardner "not the most self-assured of writers", and said that the plot was "absurd" and "blundering". Amis said, "What makes Mr Gardner's book so hard to read is not so much its endlessly silly story as its desolateness, its lack of the slightest human interest or warmth. [...] But then to do anything like that the writer must be genuinely interested in his material."[3]
Writing in The New Republic, Robin W. Winks wrote, "Bond is dead, and John Gardner's second effort to remove the nails from that coffin, though not so dreary nor so silly as the first, is nonetheless very thin gruel." Winks further said the book was "exceptionally bad when read back-to-back with Ian Fleming's From a View to a Kill. The book is full of one sentence paragraphs — did Fleming ever really write this way? — and obligatory "who'll sleep in the one bedroom, who on the couch" scenes once calculated to titillate fourteen-year-olds."[4]
New Statesman critic Lewis Jones dismissed it as "a real airport novel, unimaginative and badly written. Bond is as dated as Biggles. Gardner's attempts to update meet with partial success. He can manage the machines but not the people." Jones summed the book up in one word: "Deadly."[5]
Novelist Stanley Ellin's New York Times review asserted that that the novel "was a dud, and for reasons having nothing to do with the author's well-proven talent. Ian Fleming was a dreadful writer, a creator of books for grown-up boys, a practitioner of tin-eared prose. As evidenced by his writings, he was also by nature a ferocious and humorless snob, a political primitive, a chauvinist in every possible area whose ideas about sexuality apparently were implanted by fevered readings of Lady Chatterley's Lover. John Gardner, creator of the inimitable and delightful Boysie Oakes among other characters, is the antithesis to all this, a writer of style and wit with a sharp-eyed, acidulous and yet appreciative view of humanity and its foibles. Fleming's shoes are simply too tight and misshapen for Mr. Gardner to wear comfortably. Fleming, however, did offer the reader one thing no imitator can possibly duplicate: total identification with and commitment to his hero and his works as the products of an uninhibited wish fulfillment." Ellin believed that no writer "could have done better with this curious project than John Gardner, but it is simply a defeating project to start with." Ellin did find several things to admire. "There are some good things among the zany proceedings: an automobile road race described to nerveracking effect; the amusing relationship between the aging Bond and the youthful Cedar Leiter; a climax where Bond is drugged into imagining he is the woolly-headed Gen. James A. Banker, U.S.A. - all pure John Gardner at his Boysie Oakes best. This still doesn't compensate for the awkwardness of the whole project. The reader will do better to head for anything by Mr. Gardner that isn't imitation Fleming. As pure Gardner, he is quite a writer."[6]
Mystery novelist Reginald Hill writing in Books and Bookmen, admitted "I was not pre-inclined to like John Gardner's second James Bond adventure For Special Services, and I didn't. Mr. Gardner is far too good a writer not to make a fair stab at the job. No mere arranger of other men's flowers, he is of course a thriller writer of the first water. All this is done with technical skill and some panache, but in the end Bond belongs so much to the 50s and early 60s that to translate him to the 80s without making him grow up is an almost impossible task. The result is very fair escapist stuff, but time and again I found myself asking the, I hope, not impertinent question, if this man wasn't called James Bond, how good a thriller would this be? And the answer, I'm afraid, is not half as good as what Mr Gardner is capable of giving us when he follows his own creative bent. Bring back Boysie Oakes!"[7]
People Magazine's anonymous reviewer complained that the novel "has the stripped-down feeling of a comic strip. Fleming had fun with James Bond, but he also seemed genuinely to admire 007's ridiculous, perfect-martini mannerisms. Gardner, while he's a better writer than Fleming, is a cynical pro. There is no joy in his Bond."[2]
A handful of critics liked the book despite some reservations. The Globe and Mail crime critic Derrick Murdoch praised Gardner's vast research "on the state-of-the-art technology affecting satellite chasers, hydraulics, automobile and monorail engineering design, weaponry, optics and pyrostatics." Murdoch also praised the novel's final scene set "in a mock-decrepit palace in the middle of the Louisiana swampland, is played out in maniacal fury, total illogic and superb idiocy to enchant the mind. In other words, John Gardner is having more fun with his rented character than he allowed himself to have in the earlier book."[8]
Kirkus Reviews said Gardner's second Bond novel "is smooth enough - but a good deal less fun than License Renewed. Comic-strippy as ever, but without the freshness and Bond-persona detail of the first resurrection.[9]
John Waite writing in the Nursing Mirror said Gardner managed to write in Fleming's style "beautifully". The plot, he said, was preposterous enough, the girls exotic enough and the villains superbly Satanic.[10]
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ MI6 :: The Home Of James Bond 007
2.^ Jump up to: a b Hauptfuhrer, Fred (21 June 1982). "From Ireland with Love: Author John Gardner Revives the James Bond Books". People. Available online.
3.Jump up ^ Amis, Kingsley (September 17, 1982). "Double-low-tar 7, Licence to Underkill". Times Literary Supplement.
4.Jump up ^ Winks, Robin W. (1982). The New Republic.
5.Jump up ^ Jones, Lewis (24 September 1982). "Airport". New Statesman. p. 30.
6.Jump up ^ Ellin, Stanley (30 May 1982). "Was the ice cream doped or dopey?". The New York Times. p. 30. Available online.
7.Jump up ^ Hill, Reginald (November 1982). "Espionage and kidnapping". Books and Bookmen. p. 24.
8.Jump up ^ Murdoch, Derrick (4 September 1982). "It's a Crime: James Bond lowers his octane, raises his sights and runs into vicious ice cream". The Globe and Mail. p. E.12.
9.Jump up ^ "For Special Services". Kirkus Reviews. 1 May 1982. Available online.
10.Jump up ^ Waite, John (1982). "For Special Services". Nursing Mirror. p. 33.


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 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
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 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
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Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
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 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
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Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


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Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works



R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories



Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 


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Licence Renewed
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Licence Renewed


LicenceFirst.jpg
1st edition Jonathan Cape cover

Author
John Gardner
Cover artist
Richard Chopping
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Jonathan Cape

Publication date
 1981
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
272 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-224-01941-4 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
8146232
Licence Renewed, first published in 1981, is the first novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond.[1] It was the first proper James Bond novel (not counting novelizations and a faux biography) since Kingsley Amis's Colonel Sun in 1968. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and in the United States by Richard Marek, a G. P. Putnam's Sons imprint.
The release of Licence Renewed successfully relaunched the Bond literary franchise, being the first of 14 original novels by Gardner until his retirement in 1996. In that time frame Gardner also wrote two novelizations.


Contents  [hide]
1 Updating James Bond
2 Plot summary
3 Characters
4 The Silver Beast
5 Influence on future Bond films
6 New 30th Anniversary reprints
7 Publication history
8 Reviews
9 See also
10 References
11 External links

Updating James Bond[edit]
In 1979[2] Glidrose Publications (now Ian Fleming Publications) approached Gardner and asked him to revive Ian Fleming's James Bond series of novels.[3]
When hired to begin a new series of James Bond novels, author John Gardner was tasked with updating James Bond and his allies and transporting them into the 1980s.

I described to the Glidrose Board how I wanted to put Bond to sleep where Fleming had left him in the sixties, waking him up now in the 80s having made sure he had not aged, but had accumulated modern thinking on the question of Intelligence and Security matters. Most of all I wanted him to have operational know-how: the reality of correct tradecraft and modern gee-whiz technology.
—John Gardner[4]
Updating the time frame to the 1980s, Gardner's series picks up the career of James Bond some years after the Fleming novels ended. Due to the time frame change Gardner's series suggests that Fleming's stories took place in the 1960s and 70s, rather than the 1950s and 60s.
Likewise with James Bond, his companions and allies, specifically those working for the British Secret Service such as M, Bill Tanner, Miss Moneypenny, and Q are also all transported to the 1980s, although Q is rarely mentioned and is mostly substituted by Ann Reilly, a genius of gadgetry who is promptly nicknamed "Q'ute" by fellow workers as well as Bond, not long before being added to Bond's long list of romantic conquests.
The novel was initially titled Meltdown during the manuscript stage.[5]
Plot summary[edit]
When Licence Renewed begins, M reminds Bond that the 00 section has in fact been abolished; however, M retains Bond as a troubleshooter (pun intended), telling him "You'll always be 007 to me". Bond is assigned to investigate one Dr. Anton Murik, a brilliant nuclear physicist who is thought to have been having meetings with a terrorist named Franco. Franco is identified and tracked by MI5 to a village in Scotland called Murcaldy. Since Murcaldy is outside of MI6's jurisdiction, the Director-General of MI5, Richard Duggan requests that M send Bond to survey Murik. Relying on information that MI5 did not have, M changes Bond's assignment to instead infiltrate Murik's Scottish castle and gain Murik's confidence.
Bond makes contact with Murik at Ascot Racecourse where he feigns a coincidental meeting, mentioning to Murik that he is a mercenary looking for work. Later, Bond joins Murik in Scotland at Murik's behest and is hired to kill Franco, for reasoning at the time unknown. Franco in turn has been tasked by Murik to kill his young ward, Lavender Peacock because she was the true heir to the Murik fortune, which could only be proved by secret documents Anton kept in a hidden safe within his castle.
Murik's plan is to hijack six nuclear power plants around the world simultaneously with the aid of bands of terrorists supplied by Franco. To ensure that Murik can never be associated to this deal, he attempts to use Bond to assassinate Franco. Ultimately terrorists do take over six nuclear power plants, but are prevented from starting a meltdown when they are given an abort code by Bond, believing him to be Murik. Murik is eventually defeated by Bond and Lavender before his demands are met.
Characters[edit]
James Bond - agent 007
M - head of the British Secret Intelligence Service
Bill Tanner - M's Chief of Staff
Miss Moneypenny - M's secretary
Ann Reilly aka Q'ute - Q Branch
Dr. Anton Murik: the current Laird of Murcaldy, owning the village of Murcaldy as well as most of the land surrounding it. Murik is a brilliant nuclear physicist who had been kicked out of the Atomic Energy Commission for his radical beliefs on the safety of nuclear power. Murik had claimed to have designed a nuclear reactor that was as powerful as a standard nuclear power plant, but safely disposed of the nuclear waste - a view debunked by many other nuclear physicists. To make a point to the world that the current nuclear power plants in use around the world were unsafe, Murik planned to have terrorists infiltrate six plants simultaneously and start a global meltdown.
Mary Jane Mashkin: Murik's mistress who attempts to become "more than friends" with James Bond to see if Bond was lying to Murik about being a mercenary looking for work.
Lavender Peacock: Dr. Anton Murik's ward. Unbeknownst to her, she is the true heir to the Murik family fortune.
Caber: Murik's personal bodyguard and the "Champion of Murcaldy". He especially dislikes Bond for beating him in a wrestling match in which Bond cheated to ensure victory.
Franco Oliveiro Quesocriado: an international terrorist leader wanted in most European countries as well as some in the Middle East. He aids Murik by supplying willing terrorists for his meltdown operation and additionally accepts the task of assassinating Murik's ward, Lavender.
The Silver Beast[edit]
In Licence Renewed Bond drives a Saab 900 Turbo. For some editions of the book, the car is shown as black or red on the book cover; however, in the book the car's colour is not mentioned. It only became silver and took on the nickname the "Silver Beast" in the follow-up Gardner novel, For Special Services.
The car is Bond's personal vehicle, updated on his own expense by Communication Control Systems Ltd (CCS), a real life company (now known as Security Intelligence Technology Group) that advised author John Gardner with ideas about feasible gadgets to be used. Consequently, Gardner gave them the credit in the book and not Q Branch.
With the release of Licence Renewed Saab Automobile took the opportunity to launch a Bond themed promotional campaign complete with an actual car outfitted like the one in the book (but using smoke instead of tear gas).
Influence on future Bond films[edit]
Some key plot elements in Licence Renewed, including other Gardner Bond novels, may have had some influence in future Bond films; most notably Anton Murik's plot of a nuclear disaster with the aid of an infamous terrorist which was the basis of The World Is Not Enough. Other key elements from Renewed that appeared in future Bond films were Anton's cheating at horse racing, which Max Zorin did in A View to a Kill, and the obsession with weapons, not unlike Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights. Gardner's Role of Honour and A View to a Kill also share similar climaxes.
New 30th Anniversary reprints[edit]
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Licence Renewed, all fourteen of John Gardner's James Bond books will be republished by Orion in the UK starting in June 2011. The first five titles will be released in hardback featuring their original covers. The rest of John Gardner's Bond books will be released in the UK as paperbacks in 2012 as a redesigned collection. In the US, Pegasus will release the first three John Gardner titles in newly designed paperback in the Autumn of 2011. The editions will feature new introductions from luminaries in the world of Bond, and will be followed by a complete re-issue of all 14 titles in the US.[6]
Publication history[edit]
UK first hardback edition: May 1981 Jonathan Cape
US first hardback edition: April 1981 Richard Marek/G. P. Putnam's Sons
UK first paperback edition: 1982 Coronet Books
US first paperback edition: May 1982 Berkley Books
The U.S. hardcover edition sold more than 130,000 copies.[7]
Reviews[edit]
Poet Philip Larkin writing in The Times Literary Supplement, felt that the book had no life of its own and lacked Fleming's compelling readability.[8]
For Kingsley Amis, the book was "So sodding tame" and Gardner "can't write exciting stories."[9] Later, Amis was to say the novel "was bad enough by any reasonable standard."[10]
Listener crime critic Marghanita Laski, a long-time admirer of Gardner's books, said Licence Renewed "is competent and has its funny moments. But this fine thriller-writer can't perfectly adjust down to the simpler genre, and the world-destructive plot is a waste of Gardner, without ever really convincing as Bond."[11]
Novelist Jessica Mann said in the British Book News that "Ian Fleming's James Bond books were never as crass as Licence Renewed. Writing for himself, Gardner is intelligent and original. In this Fleming rip-off, he reproduces Fleming's faults without their saving charms, except that he has cut down on the sex and sadism. Fleming's plots were always preposterous, but they carried a crazy, unifying conviction. Gardner's is just illogical. And how the mighty Bond is fallen; he has become a dull, dim — too many knocks on the head in the past, perhaps? — middle-aged man who chooses the wrong trade-names to advertise." [12]
Nicholas Shrimpton in the New Statesman argued that Bond was best left in his own era. "What John Gardner has failed to realise is that the charm of Bond is as strictly related to a sense of period as that of Sherlock Holmes or Philip Marlowe. Removed from this distinctive environment, Bond is a fish out of water. The glamour shrivels, the self-indulgence becomes apologetic, and the atmosphere seems absurd.[13]
Robin W. Winks said in the Library Journal that "Gardner lacks the sparkle of Fleming's truly original plotting and humor, and Lavender Peacock simply is not Pussy Galore. What's sound here isn't very new and what's new isn't very sound. 007's license is best left unrenewed."[14]
The Globe and Mail crime fiction critic Derrick Murdoch complained that the villains were weak especially compared to Fleming's own, and that love interest Lavender Peacock is "a schoolgirl next to Pussy Galore." Murdoch also criticized the plot saying, "The story line is also a bit cluttered. There's one sub-plot about an international terrorist that seems derived indirectly from Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity, and another about a stolen birthright that could come directly from Victorian melodrama. In his Liquidator series, Gardner showed that he can be much slyer, funnier and bawdier than he has allowed himself to be here. It almost seems he has approached his task too respectfully in Licence Renewed.[15]
People Magazine's anonymous reviewer felt that "Gardner's approach is sometimes too tame — as in the uninspiring title — but, on the whole, it's a treat to have Bond working again. Welcome back, old friend."[16]
Novelist Michael Malone commented in The New York Times that "in License Renewed, the whole world seems scantier and blander, as if Bond could not shake off the malaise of those intervening years when the Government abolished his license to kill and stuck him in a desk job. He has less wit, less wardrobe and less sex drive. Miss Moneypenny even has difficulty arousing him. With his mechanized swashbuckling and elegant machismo, Bond was so suited to his time, so right in that age of astronauts and Thunderbirds, perhaps he should have decided you only live once.[17]
Time Magazine praised Gardner's "way around military hardware, neo-villainy and a plot whose absurdity even Ian Fleming might admire. In classic style, Gardner piles picaresque on bizarre: Neanderthal henchmen, a medieval castle equipped with radar, cars that repel attackers with clouds of tear gas.[18]
Kirkus Reviews believed Gardner was equal to the task. "More tongue-in-cheek than Fleming, but mindless fun as usual: savory fluff for the curious and the old fans too."[19]
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ MI6 :: The Home Of James Bond 007
2.Jump up ^ Adrian 1991, p. 418.
3.Jump up ^ Ripley, Mike (2 November 2007). "John Gardner; Prolific thriller writer behind the revival of James Bond and Professor Moriarty". The Guardian (London). p. 41.
4.Jump up ^ "John Gardner: The Bond Books". Archived from the original on April 6, 2005. Retrieved August 4, 2005.
5.Jump up ^ Hiscock, Eric (6 September 1980). "Personally Speaking". The Bookseller: 1043.
6.Jump up ^ The Book Bond. "GARDNER RENEWED! ALL 14 JOHN GARDNER JAMES BOND NOVELS TO BE REPRINTED". Retrieved 2011-03-29.
7.Jump up ^ Hauptfuhrer, Fred (21 June 1982). "From Ireland with Love: Author John Gardner Revives the James Bond Books". People. Available online.
8.Jump up ^ Larkin, Philip (5 June 1981). "The Batman from Blades". The Times Literary Supplement. p. 625.
9.Jump up ^ Leader, Zachary; Amis, Kingsley (2000). The Letters of Kingsley Amis. London: HarperCollins. p. 923. ISBN 0-00-257095-5. Amis's 9 June 1981 letter to Philip Larkin.
10.Jump up ^ Amis, Kingsley (September 17, 1982). "Double-low-tar 7, Licence to Underkill". Times Literary Supplement.
11.Jump up ^ Laski, Marghanita (20 August 1981). "Blessed Releases". The Listener. p. 184.
12.Jump up ^ Mann, Jessica (1981). "Crime Fiction". British Book News. p. 391.
13.Jump up ^ Shrimpton, Nicholas (22 May 1981). New Statesman. p. 22.
14.Jump up ^ Winks, Robin R. (1 May 1981). "License Renewed". Library Journal. p. 994.
15.Jump up ^ Murdoch, Derrick (30 May 1981). "It's a Crime: James Bond changes a little. He now smokes low-tar cigarettes and drives a fuel-efficient Saab. But he can still save the world with a few scraps of toilet tissue". The Globe and Mail. p. E.17.
16.Jump up ^ "Picks and Pans". People. 22 June 1981.Available online.
17.Jump up ^ Malone, Michael (14 June 1981). "Bond and Company". The New York Times. Available online.
18.Jump up ^ Time. 6 July 1981. p. 75.
19.Jump up ^ "License Renewed". Kirkus Reviews. 1 April 1981. Available online.
External links[edit]
Coverage of Licence Renewed at MI6-HQ.com
Overview of Licence Renewed at CommandBond.net


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Colonel Sun
ColonelSunOld.jpg
First edition cover

Author
Kingsley Amis
 writing as Robert Markham
Cover artist
Tom Adams
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Jonathan Cape

Publication date
 28 March 1968
Media type
Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages
255 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
0-224-61294-8 (first edition, hardback)
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Colonel Sun is a novel by Kingsley Amis published by Jonathan Cape on 28 March 1968 under the pseudonym "Robert Markham". Colonel Sun is the first James Bond continuation novel published after Ian Fleming's 1964 death. Before writing the novel, Amis wrote two other Bond related works, the literary study The James Bond Dossier and the humorous The Book of Bond. Colonel Sun centres on the fictional British Secret Service operative James Bond and his mission to track down the kidnappers of M, his superior at the Secret Service. During the mission he discovers a communist Chinese plot to cause an international incident. Bond, assisted by a Greek spy working for the Russians, finds M on a small Aegean island, rescues him and kills the two main plotters: Colonel Sun Liang-tan and a former Nazi commander, Von Richter.
Amis drew upon a holiday he had taken in the Greek islands to create a realistic Greek setting and characters. He emphasised political intrigue in the plot more than Fleming had done in the canonical Bond novels, also adding revenge to Bond's motivations by including M's kidnapping. Despite keeping a format and structure similar to Fleming's Bond novels, Colonel Sun was given mixed reviews.
Colonel Sun was serialised in the Daily Express newspaper in 1968 and adapted as a comic strip in the same newspaper in 1969–1970. Elements from the story have been used in the Eon Productions Bond series: The 1999 instalment The World Is Not Enough used M's kidnapping, whilst the villain of 2002 film Die Another Day, Colonel Tan-Sun Moon, owes his name to Colonel Sun Liang-tan.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Characters and themes
3 Background
4 Release and reception 4.1 Reviews
5 Adaptations
6 See also
7 References
8 Bibliography

Plot[edit]
Kidnappers violently take the Secret Service chief M from his house and almost capture James Bond, who is visiting. Intent on rescuing M, Bond follows the clues to Vrakonisi, one of the Aegean Islands. In the process, Bond discovers the complex military-political plans of Colonel Sun of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Sun had been sent to sabotage a Middle East détente conference which the Soviet Union is hosting. He intends to attack the conference venue and use M and Bond's bodies to blame Great Britain for the disaster, leading to a world war. Bond meets Soviet agents in Athens and they realise that not only is a third country behind the kidnap, but that there is a traitor in the organisation. An attack on the Soviet headquarters kills all the agents except Ariadne Alexandrou, a Greek Communist. As he is dying, the Soviet leader encourages Bond and Ariadne to work together to prevent an international incident.
Ariadne persuades Litsas, a former Second World War resistance fighter and friend of her late father to help them by telling him about the involvement in the plot of former Nazi, Von Richter. Trying to find M and Colonel Sun, Bond is nearly captured by the Russians, but is saved by Litsas. Finally, Bond finds Sun's headquarters, but is knocked out by one of Sun's men; Bond learns that Von Richter will use a mortar to destroy the conference venue and that Bond will be tortured by Sun, before his inevitable demise. Sun tortures him brutally, until one of the girls at the house is ordered by Sun to caress Bond fondly. In the process she cuts one of Bond's hands free and provides him with a knife. She tells Sun that Bond is dead: when examined Bond stabs Sun. He then frees other captives who help Bond stop Von Richter. However Sun survives the stab wound and kills several of the other escapees. Bond tracks down Sun and kills him in the confrontation. The Soviets thank Bond for saving their conference, offering him a medal for his work, which he politely turns down.
Characters and themes[edit]
The main character of the novel is James Bond. Continuation Bond author Raymond Benson described Amis's Bond as a humourless interpretation of the character that Fleming used in his earlier novels.[1] Benson describes this personality as a natural continuation of the Bond developed in the final three Fleming novels. In all three novels, the events take a toll on Bond: he loses his wife in On Her Majesty's Secret Service; he loses his memory in Japan in You Only Live Twice; and he is brainwashed in Russia, is de-programmed by MI6 and almost dies from Francisco Scaramanga's poisoned bullet in The Man with the Golden Gun.[2] Benson identifies Bond's desire for revenge as a central theme to the novel. The plot centres on Bond's need to revenge the death of the Hammonds and M's kidnapping. Benson describes this as particularly striking: "Bond is particularly brutal in achieving his goal ... The revenge is very satisfying. This is Bond at his toughest."[1]
Benson considered that M's character evokes an emotional response from the reader because of the change from his usual, business like-manner to a semi-catatonic state upon being kidnapped.[3] However, Amis envisioned something different for the character: he did not like M and, as one reviewer pointed out that in The James Bond Dossier, he had "spent a chapter running him down."[4] The main villain of the novel is Colonel Sun Liang-tan. Sun is a member of the Special Activities Committee of the Chinese People's Liberation Army as well as a sadist and skilled torturer. Raymond Benson called him "very worthy of inclusion in the Bond saga".[3]
Raymond Benson notes increased political intrigue in the novel compared to earlier Bond novels. In Colonel Sun, Bond acts in concert with the Russians against the Chinese, which demonstrates one of the main themes of the book: a peacekeeping between nations.[1] Military historian Jeremy Black describes the novel reflecting a shift in the balance of world power away from two party Cold War politics.[5] To accentuate this idea of Oriental threat, the novel demonstrates a disregard by the Chinese for human life, a position similar to the treatment of the East in Fleming's Dr. No.[6] Black also notes an emotional and social sadness throughout Colonel Sun. The social sadness is a reaction to the culture of modernity and mourning what was being lost in its place.[7] This treatment by Amis is similar to Fleming's nostalgia in describing Paris in "From a View to a Kill".[5]
Background[edit]
The original creator of James Bond, Ian Fleming, died in the early morning of 12 August 1964, eight months before the posthumous publication of The Man with the Golden Gun.[8][9] After his death, Glidrose Productions (now Ian Fleming Publications) held the rights to Fleming's works. The company decided to publish two short stories, "Octopussy" and "The Living Daylights", on 23 June 1966.[10]
As the Bond character could not be copyrighted, and to retain rights in the Bond product, Glidrose decided to commission a sequel.[11] Initially the company approached author James Leasor to write a continuation novel, but he declined.[12] Glidrose then commissioned Amis, who wrote Colonel Sun.[13] Critic and future novelist Sally Beauman noted that it was "unusual, not to say unprecedented, for an established author to pick up the torch in this way," though she admits that "Bond [is] too big, and too profitable, a property to be placed in the hands of an unknown."[14]
Fleming's wife, Ann, did not endorse any further Bond works and disliked Amis, saying that he would create "a petit bourgeois red brick Bond". [15][16]
In 1965, Amis produced The James Bond Dossier—a critical analysis of the Bond books under his own name—and The Book of Bond, a tongue-in-cheek manual for prospective agents, using the pseudonym Lt.-Col. William ("Bill") Tanner.[17] Amis followed these books with the 1966 novel, The Anti-Death League which had a plot filled with popular fiction elements and helped Amis prepare for Colonel Sun.[17]
Amis and his wife Jane spent September 1965 holidaying on the Greek island of Spetses and Amis used his experiences as the background to the novel.[18] Amis followed a tradition set by Fleming of using the names of people he knew or had met during the researches for his book[19] and Amis drew on the names of people he met in Greece for Colonel Sun. The boat Bond uses—The Altair—was the name of the boat Amis and his wife used on holiday, whilst the Bond girl's fictitious colleagues, "Legakis" and "Papadogonas" were friends who helped Amis in Greece, whilst the doctor who treats Bond in Chapter two was named after Amis and Jane's own doctor.[20]
In a 21 May 1967 letter to Philip Larkin, Amis mentioned that he had already finished writing the Bond novel.[21]
Release and reception[edit]
Jonathan Cape published Colonel Sun on 28 March 1968;[22] the book was 255 pages long and priced at 21 shillings.[23] The novel sold well – journalist and author Eric Hiscock claims that by 1980 it had sold over 500,000 copies worldwide[24] – and was listed second best seller in the "Books in demand" list of the Financial Times for March and April 1968.[22][25] Harper & Row published the novel in the US on 1 May 1968;[26] the United States edition ran to 244 pages.[27]
Reviews[edit]
Colonel Sun was broadly welcomed by the critics, although a number noted that despite Amis's abilities as a writer, Fleming's own persona was missing from the novel. Roger Baker, writing in The Times noted that from one angle Colonel Sun is a "neat, not over-inventive thriller, low on sex, high on violence and more than usually improbable";[28] however, he noted that once the elements of the re-incarnation of Bond and the writing of Kingsley Amis were taken into account, things were different. Baker thought that with Amis writing the story, "one might, justifiably, have expected a joyous rejuvenation or at least a devastating detour from the Fleming pattern. We get neither. It is a pale copy."[28] D. J. Enright, writing in The Listener, considered that, in literary terms, Fleming's "inheritance has been well and aptly bestowed."[29] He said that "Colonel Sun offers apt literary pabulum for Bond's fish-and-chip culture, for his neurotics, alcoholics and suicides. Good dirty fun, once read and soon forgotten".[29]
Writing in The Times Literary Supplement, Simon Gray, unimpressed with the novel, called the Bond in Colonel Sun "a chuckle-headed imposter whose arthritic thought processes would be a liability in a 'physical tussle' down at the pub."[23] He went on to comment that the novel only "offers the frustrated Bond addict ... a small academic problem, of swiftly passing interest."[23] The Daily Mirror's reviewer, Alexander Muir considered the book to be "an exciting, violent, sadistic and sexy piece of reading matter",[30] although, partly because of Amis' abilities as a writer, Colonel Sun "is altogether too meticulous and well written – Fleming was a hypnotic but slapdash writer. And, at times, I sensed parody. This could be fatal."[30]
Writing in The Guardian, Malcolm Bradbury called the novel "a reasonable read but no more: neither vintage Fleming nor vintage Amis."[31] Bradbury also noted that "it lacks a convincing rhetoric ... and the traditional Fleming frissons emerge only in muted form."[31] Maurice Richardson, reviewing Colonel Sun for The Observer, wrote that when being judged as a thriller, the novel "is vigorous, quite exciting, rather disorderly, a bit laboured".[32] He went on to say that "Some of the action is quite well done and little more preposterous than in the later Flemings. The real trouble is the absence of spontaneous élan.[32]
The reviewer for the Los Angeles Times, Charles Champlin, noted that the novel "lacks the garish, outrageous, ridiculous, symbol-witted touch of the original article";[26] despite that, he still enjoyed the novel, commenting that it left "intact the reputations of both Messrs. Amis and Fleming."[26] Donald Stanley, writing in Life magazine praised the villain Sun, saying he "is the kind of villain to make a Bondophile salivate."[4] In general Stanley praised Amis for emulating "the celebrated Fleming Effect".[4] Stanley is less convinced with Bond, observing that his "essential swinishness is being replaced by some kind of dilute humanism".[4]
The reviewer for The New York Times noted the reduced numbers of gadgets employed in the book, when compared with the films, that they felt had "overshadowed the personality of the secret agent";[33] overall the reviewer felt that "Mr. Amis has now given Bond back to the readers."[33] Oberbeck commented that Bond "has become a sensitive man-of-ethics who suffers pangs of doubt and remorse over the 'senseless' violence of his profession".[34] Oberbeck went on to say that Amis "never quite captures the bizzare beat of a Fleming pace";[34] most telling, according to Oberbeck, was that "the greatest flaw in Amis' conception of Bond is that he has attempted to transform the consummate spy-hero into something he was never meant to have been: a man with a job".[34]
Sally Beauman writing for New York believed that "Amis has all the obvious ingredients for success" including "an exotic troubled international setting, a beautiful girl, frequent imbibings, and even more frequent killings; and, most imperative, a villain. Yet the book drags and becomes a bore." Beauman complains that the story lacks suspense and that Bond is far too gloomy: he's more like Ingmar Bergman's creations than Ian Fleming's hero. Beauman attributes the novel's failure to the "differing characters of the authors."[14]
Adaptations[edit]
Main article: James Bond (comic strip)
Serialisation (1968)
Colonel Sun was serialised on a daily basis in the Daily Express newspaper from 18 March 1968[35] to 30 March 1968.[36]
Comic strip (1969–1970)
Colonel Sun is the only non-Fleming Bond novel adapted as a comic strip by the Daily Express newspaper. It was adapted by Jim Lawrence and drawn by Yaroslav Horak and published in the Daily Express from 1 December 1969 to 20 August 1970 and was subsequently syndicated worldwide.[37] In December 2005, Titan Books reprinted Colonel Sun and included River of Death, another original James Bond comic strip story published before the Colonel Sun strip in 1969.[38]
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
The kidnap of M was borrowed from Colonel Sun and used as a plot device in the 1999 Bond film The World Is Not Enough.[39]
Die Another Day (2002)
For the 2002 film Die Another Day, Eon Productions wanted to use the name Colonel Sun Liang-tan for the main villain, but when the Fleming estate insisted on royalties for the use of the name, they changed the name to Colonel Tan-Sun Moon.[40]
See also[edit]

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References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c Benson 1988, p. 147.
2.Jump up ^ Benson 1988, p. 147-148.
3.^ Jump up to: a b Benson 1988, p. 148.
4.^ Jump up to: a b c d Stanley, Donald (3 May 1968). "A flabby corporate image for 007". Life: Book Reviews. Life. p. 10. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
5.^ Jump up to: a b Black 2005, p. 183.
6.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 95.
7.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 183-184.
8.Jump up ^ Lycett, Andrew. "Fleming, Ian Lancaster (1908–1964) (subscription needed)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33168. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
9.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 75.
10.Jump up ^ Lycett 1996, p. 445.
11.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 181-182.
12.Jump up ^ "Obituary: James Leasor". The Times. 22 September 2007. p. 77.
13.Jump up ^ Benson 1988, p. 31.
14.^ Jump up to: a b Beauman, Sally (10 June 1968). "Of Brooding Bondage". New York: 60.
15.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 182.
16.Jump up ^ Simpson 2002, p. 54.
17.^ Jump up to: a b Leader, Zachary (September 2011). "Amis, Sir Kingsley William (1922–1995) (subscription needed)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/60221. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
18.Jump up ^ Leader 2007, p. 554.
19.Jump up ^ Chancellor 2005, p. 117.
20.Jump up ^ Leader 2007, p. 556.
21.Jump up ^ Leader 2000, p. 677.
22.^ Jump up to: a b "Books in demand in March". Financial Times. 16 April 1968. p. 24.
23.^ Jump up to: a b c Gray, Simon (28 March 1968). "Unlucky Jim". The Times Literary Supplement. p. 309.
24.Jump up ^ Hiscock, Eric (6 September 1980). "Personally Speaking". The Bookseller: 1043.
25.Jump up ^ "Books in demand in April". Financial Times. 9 May 1968. p. 10.
26.^ Jump up to: a b c Champlin, Charles (19 May 1968). "A Second Life for Agent 007". Los Angeles Times. p. D1.
27.Jump up ^ "Colonel Sun; a James Bond adventure (by) Robert Markham". Library of Congress Online Catalog. Library of Congress. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
28.^ Jump up to: a b Baker, Roger (30 March 1968). "No Touch". The Times. p. 21.
29.^ Jump up to: a b Enright, D. J. (28 March 1968). "Books". The Listener. p. 411.
30.^ Jump up to: a b Muir, Alexander (30 March 1968). "An invisible enemy for the new 007". Daily Mirror. p. 21.
31.^ Jump up to: a b Bradbury, Malcolm (29 March 1958). "Bond dishonoured". The Guardian. p. 12.
32.^ Jump up to: a b Richardson, Maurice (31 March 1968). "James Bond without Fleming". The Observer. p. 29.
33.^ Jump up to: a b "Amis is thrilled about thrillers". The New York Times. 25 April 1968.
34.^ Jump up to: a b c Oberbeck, S K (5 May 1968). "The new James Bond: calmer music, weaker wine". Chicago Tribune. p. Q5.
35.Jump up ^ Markham, Robert (18 March 1968). "Colonel Sun". Daily Express. p. 5.
36.Jump up ^ Markham, Robert (30 March 1968). "Colonel Sun". Daily Express. p. 14.
37.Jump up ^ Fleming, Gammidge & McLusky 1988, p. 6.
38.Jump up ^ "Titan Books – James Bond – Colonel Sun". Titan Books. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
39.Jump up ^ Chapman 2009, p. 231.
40.Jump up ^ Britton 2005, p. 238.
Bibliography[edit]
Benson, Raymond (1988). The James Bond Bedside Companion. London: Boxtree Ltd. ISBN 1-85283-234-7.
Black, Jeremy (2005). The politics of James Bond: from Fleming's novel to the big screen. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-6240-9.
Britton, Wesley Alan (2005). Beyond Bond: spies in fiction and film. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-98556-1.
Chancellor, Henry (2005). James Bond: The Man and His World. London: John Murray. ISBN 978-0-7195-6815-2.
Chapman, James (2009). Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films. New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84511-515-9.
Fleming, Ian; Gammidge, Henry; McLusky, John (1988). Octopussy. London: Titan Books. ISBN 978-1-85286-040-0.
Leader, Zachary (2000). The Letters of Kingsley Amis. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-257095-4.
Leader, Zachary (2007). The Life of Kingsley Amis. London: Random House. ISBN 978-0-09-942842-8.
Lycett, Andrew (1996). Ian Fleming. London: Phoenix. ISBN 978-1-85799-783-5.
Simpson, Paul (2002). The rough guide to James Bond. Rough Guides. ISBN 978-1-84353-142-5.


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