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Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier
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Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier

Author
Charlie Higson
Illustrator
Kev Walker
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond / Young Bond
Genre
Non-fiction / Spy fiction
Publisher
Puffin Books

Publication date
 29 October 2009
Media type
Print (Hardcover)
Pages
249
ISBN
978-0-14-132768-6
OCLC
428776247
Preceded by
By Royal Command
Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier is a non-fiction companion to the Young Bond series of novels written by Charlie Higson. The book contains in-depth character profiles to the cars, the weapons and the exotic locations, plus facts, statistics, photographs, maps, and illustrations by Kev Walker. The book also includes an original Young Bond short story by Charlie Higson titled "A Hard Man to Kill". The story is set between the books Hurricane Gold and By Royal Command and involves James Bond travelling back to London aboard the French ocean liner SS Colombie. It is the longest James Bond short story yet written. An extract from the story appeared in the paperback edition of By Royal Command.[1]
Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier was released by Puffin Books on 29 October 2009.[2][3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Official summary
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

Official summary[edit]
Puffin Books promotional blurb

Everything you ever wanted to know about the boy, who became the man, who became the legend.
Featuring a brand-new story by Charlie Higson, Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier is the complete and definitive guide to the world and adventures of Young Bond.
Packed with information – from in-depth character profiles to the cars, the weapons and the exotic locations, plus facts, statistics, photographs, maps, and illustrations by Kev Walker – this book is both a must-have for Young Bond fans and a perfect introduction to the megaselling series.
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Young Bond is back in ‘A Hard Man to Kill’". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved May 28, 2009.
2.Jump up ^ "YOUNG BOND COMPANION BOOK IN NOVEMBER". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved April 16, 2009.
3.Jump up ^ "Danger Society release date pulled forward". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved April 29, 2009.
External links[edit]
Official Young Bond website
The Young Bond Dossier - Official Young Bond news source


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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) ·
 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 Battle for Bond
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The Battle for Bond – The Genesis of Cinema's Greatest Hero

Author
Robert Sellers
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Subject
Film
Genre
Non-fiction
Publisher
Tomahawk Press Publishers

Publication date
 1 July 2007
Media type
Print (paperback)
Pages
264 pp (first edition)
ISBN
ISBN 0-9531926-3-6 (Tomahawk press)
OCLC
154708298
The Battle for Bond (2007), by Robert Sellers, is a cinema history book of how the literary James Bond metamorphosed to the cinema James Bond. The book details the collaboration among film producer Kevin McClory, novelist Ian Fleming, screenwriter Jack Whittingham and others to create the film Thunderball.[1]
After the project's collapse, without his collaborators' permission, Fleming based his Thunderball (1961) novel upon their joint work.[1] In 1963 McClory and Whittingham sued him. The book features unpublished letters, private lawsuit documents and cast-crew interviews; there are also five Thunderball screenplays, two by Fleming, three by Whittingham, and two treatments by Fleming that document the creation and development of this James Bond project.
The Battle for Bond concerns Ian Fleming's plagiarism court case. Kevin McClory won the film rights and chose a single, co-production deal with Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli: Thunderball (1965) that was released at Christmas.
McClory's court victory entitled him to remake Thunderball (1965) as Never Say Never Again (1983), again with Sean Connery as James Bond, the cinematic competition Broccoli had tried to legally ban.[1] With the remake, McClory attempted to continue with his own James Bond film series, but was stopped after legal action by Broccoli and MGM.[1] In a later unsuccessful lawsuit, McClory went further and now claimed that he created the cinematic James Bond, and demanded a share of the three billion dollars earned by the official Eon film series.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d J.C. Maçek III (5 October 2012). "The Non-Bonds: James Bond's Bitter, Decades-Long Battle ... with James Bond". PopMatters.
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The James Bond Bedside Companion
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 The James Bond Bedside Companion book cover
The James Bond Bedside Companion is a non-fiction book written by the official James Bond author, Raymond Benson, first published in 1984. It was later updated in 1988. The book was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Biographical/Critical Work in 1984.
The book, split in five parts, includes information on "The James Bond Phenomenon", a biography on Ian Fleming the creator of James Bond, a biography on the fictional character James Bond, information on the novels, and finally information on the films.
Benson goes into considerable detail for each novel including continuation novels by authors Kingsley Amis (writing as Robert Markham) and John Gardner. Likewise it details information on every film from the first official Bond film Dr. No, to the then-recent Bond film Octopussy. Additionally, it discusses the two unofficial adaptations of Casino Royale and the remake of Thunderball called Never Say Never Again. The 1988 publication included information on A View to a Kill (1985) and The Living Daylights (1987) as well as the books written by John Gardner since the 1984 edition. In 2001 the now defunct PublishingOnline company created a print-on-demand "facsimile" edition from scans of the 1988 edition (the production plates were long lost). This edition suffered from poor scanning and is now out of print along with earlier 1980s editions.
As of January 2012, Crossroad Press has re-published the 1988 edition, with a new Foreword by Benson, as an e-book for Kindle, Nook, and other e-readers. Plans are underway by Crossroad to make the book available as an downloadable audiobook and a new print edition.
Author Raymond Benson also wrote modules for the James Bond 007 role playing game and, from 1997 to 2002, was commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications to succeed John Gardner as the author of the James Bond novels series.
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
External links[edit]
Raymond Benson's official website


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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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The Book of Bond
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The Book of Bond
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Author
Kingsley Amis
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Genre
Comedy
Publisher
Jonathan Cape

Publication date
 1965
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages
111 pp
The Book of Bond or, Every Man His Own 007 is a book by Kingsley Amis which was first published by Jonathan Cape in 1965. For this work, Amis used the pseudonym Lt.-Col. William ("Bill") Tanner. In Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, Bill Tanner is M's chief of staff and a recurring character throughout the series.
A tongue-in-cheek work, published by the same company that issued the Bond novels, The Book of Bond is a manual for prospective agents on how to live like Agent 007, illustrated with examples taken from the Fleming canon.
The first edition of this book was published with a false slipcover printed with the title The Bible to be Read as Literature. In one of the early Bond novels, Bond carries his gun in a hollowed out book of this title.
Amis, a close friend of Fleming's, was also responsible for two other works related to the James Bond series. In 1965, he wrote The James Bond Dossier, a collection of essays on the book and film series, and in 1968, under the pseudonym Robert Markham, he wrote the Bond novel Colonel Sun.
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Outline of James Bond


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The James Bond Dossier
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 The first edition published by Jonathan Cape has artwork from their previous Bond books: For Your Eyes Only (top), Goldfinger (left), You Only Live Twice (centre), The Man with the Golden Gun (right), Thunderball (bottom)
The James Bond Dossier (1965), by Kingsley Amis, is a critical analysis of the James Bond novels. Amis dedicated the book to friend and background collaborator, the poet and historian Robert Conquest. Later, after Ian Fleming's death, Amis was commissioned as the first continuation novelist for the James Bond novel series, writing Colonel Sun (1968) under the pseudonym Robert Markham. The James Bond Dossier was the first, formal, literary study of the James Bond character. More recent studies of Fleming's secret agent and his world include The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming’s Novels to the Big Screen (2001), by the historian Jeremy Black.


Contents  [hide]
1 History
2 From essay to book
3 The Dossier
4 Critical endeavours
5 See also
6 References

History[edit]
Written at the Bond-mania’s zenith in the 1960s, The James Bond Dossier is the first, thorough, albeit tongue-in-cheek, literary analysis of Ian Fleming's strengths and weaknesses as a thriller-writer. As a mainstream novelist, Amis respected the Bond novels, especially their commercial success, believing them 'to be just as complex and to have just as much in them as more ambitious kinds of fiction’.[1] That was a controversial approach in the 1960s, because from early on, since the mid-1950s, the James Bond novels were criticised by some detractors for their violence, male chauvinism, sexual promiscuity, racism, and anti-Communism.
Despite his intellectual respect for the Fleming canon, Amis's way of writing about it, according to his biographer Zachary Leader, ‘. . . partly guys academic procedures and pretensions by applying them to low-cultural objects’ and, as such, is deliberately provocative.[2] In that context, the Dossier can ‘. . . look like a cheeky two-fingered salute to the academic world, a farewell raspberry blown at all things pedantically donnish, in a manner Lucky Jim would surely have approved. For to Ian Fleming's œuvre Amis brought the anatomising and categorising zeal he never had devoted and never would devote to more elevated works of literature’.[3]
From essay to book[edit]
Kingsley Amis had several motives for writing the Dossier. He had recently retired from teaching and wanted to ‘put behind him the more rigid austerities of university life’.[4] He wanted to expand his range as a writer beyond poetry and mainstream fiction. The need to make more money was also a consideration.[4] Primarily, however, he wanted to show the academics that the literature of popular culture could be as substantive as the literature of high culture.[5] In November 1963, he announced to Conquest the idea of writing an essay of some 5,000 words about the James Bond novels. By late 1964, he had expanded the essay to book length, and submitted it to his publisher, Jonathan Cape. In one hundred and sixty pages, The James Bond Dossier methodically catalogues and analyses the activities and minutiae of secret agent 007: the number of men he kills, the women he loves, the villains he thwarts, and the essential background of Ian Fleming's Cold War world of the 1950s.[6][7]
After Fleming’s death in August 1964, Glidrose Productions Ltd., owners of the international book rights, asked for Amis's editorial assessment of the uncompleted manuscript of The Man with the Golden Gun, which Jonathan Cape deemed feeble, and perhaps unpublishable. He reported that the manuscript was publishable, but would require substantial modifications. Because Amis was not the only writer consulted,[8] it remains controversial if his editorial suggestions were implemented, and to what extent Amis contributed directly to the revision of the manuscript. In the event, the Dossier’s publication was delayed a year, because Jonathan Cape asked Amis to include discussion of The Man With the Golden Gun.[8] Both books were published in 1965; later that year, Amis reviewed The Man With the Golden Gun in the New Statesman.[9][10][11]
The Dossier[edit]
The James Bond Dossier includes most of the Bond fiction cycle, excepting Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966), the final collection of 007 short stories, which was published after the Dossier. Kingsley Amis's argument is that the Bond novels are substantial and complex works of fiction, and certainly not, as Ian Fleming's critics said, 'a systematic onslaught on everything decent and sensible in modern life’.[12] He viewed them as popular literature, akin to that of the Science Fiction texts he critiqued in New Maps of Hell (1960).[13]
Although written in Amis’s usual accessible, light-hearted style, The James Bond Dossier is neither patronising nor ironic — it is a detailed literary criticism of the Ian Fleming canon. In the main, he admires Fleming’s achievement, yet does not withhold criticism where the material proves unsatisfactory or inconsistent, especially when the narration slips into ‘the idiom of the novelette’.[14] Amis reserves his most serious criticism for what he considered to be academically pretentious rejections of the Bond books, a theme implicitly informing much of the Dossier.
Each of the 14 chapters deals with one aspect of the novels — ‘No woman had ever held this man’ defends Bond's attitude to and treatment of women: “Bond's habitual attitude to a girl is protective, not dominating or combative”; ‘Damnably clear grey eyes’ describes M., the head of SIS: “a peevish, priggish old monster”; ‘A glint of red’ is about the villains, who have in common only physical largeness and angry eyes; and so forth. According to his first biographer, Eric Jacobs,[15] the hand of sovietologist and scholar Robert Conquest is betrayed in Amis's precise dissertation upon the genesis and changing nomenclatures of SMERSH, the employer of the villains of the early novels.[6] Three appendices deal, respectively, with science fiction, literature and escape, and 'sadism'. With 'almost parodic scholarly dedication’,[16] Amis provides a ten-category (‘Places’, ‘Girl’, ‘Villain’s Project’, etc.) reference guide (pp. 156–159) to the Bond novels and short stories.
Typical of Amis's approach is where he suggests several implausibilities in Bond's capture by the eponymous villain in Dr No (1958). However, that ‘Bond is temporarily helpless in his creator’s grip’, does not matter, because ‘three of Mr Fleming’s favourite situations are about to come up one after the other. Bond is to be wined and dined, lectured on the aesthetics of power, and finally tortured by his chief enemy’.[17] Earlier, Amis had discussed the matter of Bond’s correct designation: ‘It’s inaccurate, of course, to describe James Bond as a spy, in the strict sense of one who steals or buys or smuggles the secrets of foreign powers . . . Bond’s claims to be considered a counter-spy, one who operates against the agents of unfriendly powers, are rather more substantial’.[18]
Although, as noted elsewhere, Amis wrote three books related to the James Bond franchise, and may or may not have contributed to one of Fleming's novels, The James Bond Dossier would end up being the only book of this type to be published under Amis's own name.
Critical endeavours[edit]
In the 1968 essay ‘A New James Bond’, anthologised in What Became of Jane Austen? And Other Questions (1970), Kingsley Amis revisits the literary character, and explains why he accepted the commission of writing Colonel Sun (1968), discusses the challenge of impersonating the writer Ian Fleming, and explores the stylistic and world-view differences among the spy novels of Ian Fleming, John le Carré, and Len Deighton.[19] Moreover, under the pseudonym ‘Lt.-Col. William “Bill” Tanner’ — M.’s CoS and 007’s best friend in SIS — Amis wrote his second Bond book, The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007 (1965), a tongue-in-cheek, how-to-manual to help the everyman find his own inner secret agent.
Other studies of the James Bond phenomenon include: Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964), by O. F. Snelling (revised, re-titled, and re-published on-line, in 2007, as Double-O Seven: James Bond Under the Microscope [2006]), an analysis of Bond's literary predecessors, his image, women, adversaries, and future; Ian Fleming: The Spy Who Came In with the Gold (1965), by Henry A. Zeiger, a biography of Fleming as a commercial writer; The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming’s Novels to the Big Screen (2001), by historian Jeremy Black, an analysis of the cultural politics of the Bond books and films; James Bond and Philosophy: Questions Are Forever (2006), edited by James B. South and Jacob M. Held, a collection of essays which discuss ethical and moral issues arising out of the Bond stories; and Simon Winder's The Man Who Saved Britain: A Personal Journey into the Disturbing World of James Bond (2006), a discussion of how post–Second World War England is represented in the novels and films.
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]


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4.^ Jump up to: a b Jacobs, Eric Kingsley Amis: A Biography St. Martin’s Press, 1995, p.267.
5.Jump up ^ Jacobs, Eric Kingsley Amis: A Biography St. Martin’s Press, 1995, pp.267, 270.
6.^ Jump up to: a b Jacobs, Eric Kingsley Amis: A Biography St. Martin’s Press, 1995, p.269.
7.Jump up ^ ibid
8.^ Jump up to: a b Leader, Zachary The Life of Kingsley Amis Pantheon Books, 2007, p.542
9.Jump up ^ Lycett, Andrew Ian Fleming Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995, p.445.
10.Jump up ^ ibid
11.Jump up ^ Amis, Kingsley What Became of Jane Austen? And Other Questions Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. New York:1970, pp.73–4
12.Jump up ^ Amis, Kingsley The James Bond Dossier Joanathan Cape, 1965, p. 10
13.Jump up ^ Jacobs, Eric Kingsley Amis: A Biography St. Martin’s Press, 1995, p. 270.
14.Jump up ^ Jacobs, Eric Kingsley Amis: A Biography St. Martin’s Press, 1995, p.271.
15.Jump up ^ Jacobs, Eric Kingsley Amis: A Biography St. Martin’s Press, 1995, p. 270
16.Jump up ^ Jacobs, Eric Kingsley Amis: A Biography St. Martin’s Press, 1995, p. 269.
17.Jump up ^ Amis, Kingsley, The James Bond Dossier Jonathan Cape, 1965, p.21
18.Jump up ^ Amis, Kingsley, The James Bond Dossier Jonathan Cape, 1965, p. 11
19.Jump up ^ Amis, Kingsley What Became of Jane Austen? And Other Questions Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. New York:1970, pp.65–77


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In the 1950s and 1960s, Ian Fleming, creator of the fictional secret agent, James Bond, wrote a number of short stories featuring his creation that appeared in the collections For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy and The Living Daylights. Since 1997, several more short stories featuring Bond or set within the official James Bond universe have been published by authors who continued chronicling the world of Fleming's creation. The majority of these stories have, as of 2008, never been collected in book form, unlike the Fleming works. There are five exceptions: "Blast from the Past", "Midsummer Night's Doom" & "Live at Five" by Raymond Benson, "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" by Phillip and Robert King, and "Bond Strikes Camp" by Cyril Connolly which are discussed below.


Contents  [hide]
1 Raymond Benson short stories 1.1 "Blast from the Past"
1.2 "Midsummer Night's Doom"
1.3 "Live at Five"
1.4 "The Heart of Erzulie" (unpublished)
2 Samantha Weinberg/Kate Westbrook short stories 2.1 "For Your Eyes Only, James"
2.2 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond"
3 Charlie Higson short story 3.1 "A Hard Man to Kill"
4 Unauthorised works 4.1 "Some Are Born Great"
4.2 "Bond Strikes Camp"
4.3 "Holmes Meets 007"
4.4 "Toadstool"
4.5 "License to Hug"
4.6 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond"
5 See also
6 Footnotes

Raymond Benson short stories[edit]
In the late 1990s, Raymond Benson, who at the time was the official novelist of the James Bond literary franchise, became the first author since Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, to write officially sanctioned short stories featuring the superspy.
Just before his sudden departure from writing Bond novels at the start of 2003, Benson had indicated his intention to write more short pieces and publish a short story collection along the lines of Fleming's For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy and The Living Daylights. This, however, has yet to occur as of 2008.
To date these three stories remain the only pieces of James Bond literature that have never officially been published in Great Britain. Additionally, between 2001 and 2002, Benson wrote a fourth short story he planned to title "The Heart of Erzulie", however, it was never published.
"Blast from the Past"[edit]
First publication: Playboy, January 1997 issue. In publication order, this follows COLD and precedes Zero Minus Ten. Benson has stated that Playboy cut a third of the story for space reasons.
The first Bond story published by Benson, "Blast from the Past" is a direct sequel to Fleming's You Only Live Twice and appears to exist outside the timeline of either Benson's or John Gardner's other Bond stories.
Bond receives a message, apparently from his son James Suzuki (Suzuki's mother is Kissy Suzuki from You Only Live Twice, now dead from ovarian cancer) asking him to come to New York City on an urgent matter. When Bond arrives, he finds his son murdered. With the aid of an SIS agent, he learns that James was killed in revenge by Irma Bunt for the murder of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and a woman whom Bond assumed had died alongside Blofeld (again in You Only Live Twice). James Suzuki's death was by way of being force fed fugu syrup, akin to a murder in You Only Live Twice. Bond's victory over Bunt is hollow, due to him having to come to grips with his absentee fathering and not spending time with the his only remaining blood relative.
The name of Bond's son, James Suzuki, is taken from the John Pearson faux biography, James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007.
Blast from the Past is included in the 2008 omnibus release, The Union Trilogy, which includes three additional Benson Bond novels. This makes "Blast from the Past" the first non-Fleming short story to be published in book form.[1]
"Midsummer Night's Doom"[edit]
First publication: Playboy, January 1999 issue. In publication order, this follows The Facts of Death and precedes High Time to Kill.
"Midsummer Night's Doom" is a special story commissioned to help celebrate Playboy's 45th anniversary. By Benson's own admission, the short story is a joke piece.[2]
In the story, Bond is assigned to attend a party at Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills, California where Ministry of Defence secrets are expected to be sold to a representative of the Russian Mafia.
While there, Bond meets Hefner who is aware of his mission and who actually provides Bond with several gadgets a la Q. Bond also has time to enjoy a quick romance with real-life Playmate Lisa Dergan, flirt with other Playmates including Victoria Zdrok, and rub elbows with the likes of actor Robert Culp and singer Mel Tormé.
Dergan has the distinction of being, to date, the only real person ever to be awarded the status of Bond Girl. (Several other Playmates are referenced by name in this story, but Dergan is clearly Bond's girl of choice on this adventure.)
Some sources give this story the erroneous title "A Midsummer Night's Doom", since the title is a play on William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Midsummer's Night's Doom is included in the 2010 omnibus release, Choice of Weapons, which includes three additional Benson Bond novels.[3]
"Live at Five"[edit]
First publication: TV Guide (American edition), 13–19 November 1999. In publication order, this follows the novelization of The World is Not Enough and precedes Doubleshot.
Published the week The World Is Not Enough arrived in cinemas in America, "Live at Five" is the shortest of all James Bond stories, even shorter than Fleming's previous record-holder "007 in New York". Running only a couple of thousand words, if that, it is a brief episode that sees Bond, en route to a date with a female TV news reporter, recalling how he once helped a Russian figure skating champion defect in full view of TV cameras. The reporter, Janet Davies, becomes the second real person to be a Bond girl, seen daily on Chicago's local ABC station Channel 7 WLS.
However, Live at Five was finally reprinted in the 2010 omnibus release, Choice of Weapons, which includes three additional Benson Bond novels.[3]
"The Heart of Erzulie" (unpublished)[edit]
A fourth short story, titled "The Heart of Erzulie", was written by Raymond Benson in-between Never Dream of Dying and The Man with the Red Tattoo, however, it was never published because Ian Fleming Publications felt it was "too much of a Fleming pastiche." Benson, himself, acknowledges that it was little more than a time-killer in the interim between the two book projects.[4]
Samantha Weinberg/Kate Westbrook short stories[edit]
Main article: The Moneypenny Diaries
In 2006, two additional short stories were written and published by Samantha Weinberg under the pseudonym "Kate Westbrook". These stories are part of The Moneypenny Diaries series, an officially licensed spin-off from the Bond novels series focusing on the character of Miss Moneypenny. It has not yet been announced whether these stories are intended for republication in book form. As of 2008 neither story has been published in North America.
"For Your Eyes Only, James"[edit]
First publication: Tatler (November 2006).
Set in September 1956,[5] the story tells of a weekend James Bond and Moneypenny share at Royale-les-Eaux.[6]
"Moneypenny's First Date with Bond"[edit]
First publication: The Spectator, 11 November 2006.
This story, set just after Bond's assignment to the 00 Section[7] and before the events of Casino Royale,[8] tells of Bond and Moneypenny's first meeting.
Charlie Higson short story[edit]
Main article: Young Bond
"A Hard Man to Kill"[edit]
The original Young Bond short story "A Hard Man to Kill" written by Charlie Higson, is included in the companion book, Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier, which was released by Puffin Books on 29 October 2009. An extract from the story appears in the paperback edition of By Royal Command. It is the longest James Bond short story yet written.[9][10]
Unauthorised works[edit]
Several stories published without sanction from Glidrose warrant mention.
"Some Are Born Great"[edit]
First published in the 3 September 1959 issue of Nursery World; later reprinted in the spring 1960 issue of Jonathan Cape's in-house magazine Now & Then; reprinted in 2012 by Cinema Retro's Movie Classics. The credited author - J.M. Harwood - is none other than screenwriter Johanna Harwood who subsequently co-wrote the first two James Bond films.
"Bond Strikes Camp"[edit]
Cyril Connolly's short story Bond Strikes Camp first appeared in the April 1963 issue of The London Magazine. Although a parody, the story clearly mentions Bond by name and code number. An expensive, privately printed edition of only fifty copies was done for the Shenval Press in 1963.[1] Soon after, the story appeared in Connolly's miscellany collection Previous Convictions. Author, critic and Bond author Kingsley Amis compared the story unfavourably to The Harvard Lampoon spoof Bond novel Alligator by claiming that "Parodies have their laughter-value, but the laugh is partly affectionate, and the successful parodist is moved partly by wanting to write like his original by wishing he'd thought of doing so first. Mr Cyril Connolly no doubt doesn't wish this in regard to Mr Fleming; his 'Bond Strikes Camp', in which M orders Bond to dress up as a woman, ostensibly for purposes of espionage, and then tries to get him into bed, is much too far from the original, never catches the note, gets elementary details wrong. E.g. M is made to call Bond 'Bond'. This happened last in 1954 (Live and Let Die, ch. 2). Every Fleming fan knows it's either 'James' or '007'."[11]
"Holmes Meets 007"[edit]
“ Then I noticed the crestfallen figure standing near the window." What should we do with Bond?" I asked. "Bond? Oh, send him back to his little bureaucratic niche, I expect. Really, I couldn't be less concerned." ”

Donald Stanley wrote this short story - under two-thousand words - first published in The San Francisco Examiner on 29 November 1964. The Beaune Press (San Francisco) subsequently published 247 copies of this seven page story in December 1967. There is no copy 222: this is instead numbered 221B. Copies 223 through to 247 are numbered I to XXV and were printed especially for the author's friends.[12]
Dr. John Watson, Sherlock Holmes's amanuensis, narrates the story. M and Bond visit Holmes and Watson at Holmes's Baker Street address. Holmes's deductive abilities impress M who wishes Bond had the same ability. Bond questions if such intuitive talents could hold up against a Smersh assassin. Bond confronts Holmes about the latter's drug addiction and accuses Watson of being the source of Holmes's narcotics supplier. Once Holmes admits it, Bond aims his Walther PPF [sic] at Watson and announces that Watson is an imposter and none other than Bond's arch-enemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld - the man who killed Bond's bride. Holmes throughout the meeting has been fiddling his Stradivarius - much to everyone's annoyance - and brings it crashing down, knocking Bond's gun away. Holmes plunges a needle containing morphine into M's arm, quickly rendering him unconscious. Holmes reveals that M is none other than Professor Moriarty; Bond is nothing more than a "fairly ignorant tool" who had been unaware of his boss's treachery all this time.
"Toadstool"[edit]
The Harvard Lampoon, responsible for the Bond spoof Alligator, published another "J*mes B*nd" story. Toadstool appeared in PL*YB*Y, the 1966 Harvard Lampoon parody of Playboy magazine.
"License to Hug"[edit]
Will Self's story License to Hug appeared in the November 1995 issue of Esquire. Bond goes to Holland to kill an IRA hitman involved in drug smuggling. This story, part thriller, part satire on modern life, also mentions Bond by name and code number. Sorrell Kerbel notes that "Self proves just as adept at skewering by mimicry the stiff upper lip style and macho substance of Ian Fleming's James Bond books as he is at pillorying the brave new world of political correctness (with its very own thought police) in which the 'Therapeutic Hug and Stroke' is the weapon of choice."[13]
"Your Deal, Mr. Bond"[edit]
In 1997 Phillip and Robert King published a collection of bridge-related short stories entitled Your Deal, Mr. Bond was published by B. T. Batsford (ISBN 0-7134-8247-8). The title piece is a short story featuring James Bond, who is assigned by M to defeat a villain named Saladin who is threatening to explode nuclear bombs in several major cities. Bond impersonates real-life bridge expert Zia Mahmood in order to combat Saladin at the bridge table. The short story includes bridge game charts in a similar fashion to that used by Ian Fleming in Moonraker, in which Bond similarly plays a high-stakes game of bridge against that novel's villain. The book, despite being issued by a major publisher and containing undisguised references to the Bond characters, contains no reference to Ian Fleming Publications, suggesting the use of Bond, M and Miss Moneypenny is unofficial, and rendering this story likely apocryphal. Its placement in the Bond canon, therefore, is unknown. The story contains a cultural reference to Star Trek, however, which sets it outside of Fleming's timeline. It should not be confused with the 1987 John Gardner Bond novel, No Deals, Mr. Bond.
The authors also wrote the 1996 pastiche compilation Farewell, My Dummy, which featured bridge novellas, each one parodies a different author in turn: Jeffrey Archer, Jane Austen, Raymond Chandler, Arthur Conan Doyle and Victor Mollo.
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
Footnotes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ The Literary 007: Bonding in 2008 - Jan. 1, 2008, retrieved 6 January 2008.
2.Jump up ^ "The Raymond Benson CBn Interview". commanderbond.net. Retrieved 30 March 2006.
3.^ Jump up to: a b "Raymond Benson’s Choice of Weapons cover art revealed ·". Commanderbond.net. 22 July 2009. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
4.Jump up ^ "The Heart of Erzulie". commanderbond.net. Retrieved 30 March 2006.[dead link]
5.Jump up ^ Posted by Tanner (6 November 2006). "New James Bond Short Story!". Doubleosection.blogspot.com. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
6.Jump up ^ http://www.angelfire.com/movies/settingtherules/fyeojames.html
7.Jump up ^ http://www.angelfire.com/movies/settingtherules/moneypennydate.html
8.Jump up ^ Posted by Tanner (11 November 2006). "Another New Bond/Moneypenny Short Story!". Doubleosection.blogspot.com. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
9.Jump up ^ "New Young Bond short story preview in By Royal Command paperback". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 20 April 2009.
10.Jump up ^ "New Young Bond story is not so short". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 20 April 2009.
11.Jump up ^ Amis, Kingsley (1965). The James Bond Dossier. London: Jonathan Cape. p. 64.
12.Jump up ^ De Waal, Ronald Burt; Vanderburgh, George A. (1994). The Universal Sherlock Holmes 4. p. 1360.
13.Jump up ^ Kerbel, Sorrel (2003). Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. Taylor & Francis. p. 957. ISBN 9781579583132.


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 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


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Solo (2013)
 


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Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
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 Die Another Day (2002)
 


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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

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 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)
 


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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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Per Fine Ounce

Author
Geoffrey Jenkins
Country
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Language
English
Series
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Genre
Spy novel

Publication date
 Unpublished; written c.1966
Media type
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Per Fine Ounce is the title of an unpublished novel by Geoffrey Jenkins featuring Ian Fleming's James Bond. It was completed c.1966 and is considered a "lost" novel by fans of James Bond because it was actually commissioned by Glidrose Productions, the official publishers of James Bond.[1] It was rejected for publication, however, missing the opportunity to become the first continuation James Bond novel. The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½, a novel written by the pseudonymous R. D. Mascott, was later published in 1967 featuring James Bond's nephew; Colonel Sun written by Kingsley Amis under the pseudonym Robert Markham was published in 1968 as the first adult continuation novel following Ian Fleming's The Man with the Golden Gun (1965).


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1 History
2 See also
3 Sources
4 References

History[edit]
Geoffrey Jenkins was given a job in the Foreign Department of Kemsley Newspapers, an organisation owned by the London Sunday Times, by Viscount Kemsley. There he worked with Ian Fleming, who was the Foreign Manager of the department, and the two men became friends. In a letter to John Pearson in 1965 when he was researching his biography on Ian Fleming, The Life of Ian Fleming, Jenkins revealed that in the late 1950s he had discussed the idea of a James Bond novel set in South Africa with Fleming, and even written a synopsis of it, which Fleming had very much liked. Fleming had said he would come to South Africa to research the book, but he died before this happened. Pearson was understandably excited by this revelation, and even more so when he found Jenkins' Bond synopsis in Fleming's papers.
At the same time, Glidrose were considering the idea of asking other authors to continue writing James Bond novels, a notion that Fleming's wife, Ann, was against, but his brother, Peter Fleming, who at the time was Glidrose's director, favoured. In November 1965, Jenkins met with Harry Saltzman, co-producer of the James Bond films between 1962 and 1974, and Charles Tyrell from Glidrose to discuss the possibility of his making his South African synopsis into the first James Bond 'continuation' novel. Negotiations were protracted, but Jenkins was formally granted permission to write the book on May 12, 1966; a contract was drawn up on August 24, 1966, which stated that Jenkins would be entitled to a percentage of profits in any film made from the novel, but not from any related merchandise that might come about.
Not much is known of the plot for Per Fine Ounce. The reference work The Bond Files by Andy Lane and Paul Simpson indicates that it was based upon a story Jenkins claimed he and Fleming had worked on around 1957, and that the storyline was set in South Africa and dealt with diamond smugglers and a spy ring and bore some resemblance to Fleming's Bond novel Diamonds Are Forever as well as his non-Bond work, The Diamond Smugglers. However, in an interview with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang magazine published in 2005, Peter Janson-Smith, Fleming's former literary agent and former chairman of Glidrose, claimed that he believed the story may have been about gold. This makes more sense, as the title derives from the line "per fine Troy ounce" or a variation of. A fine ounce is a Troy ounce of not quite pure gold. Jenkins' synopsis found by John Pearson in Fleming's papers featured gold bicycle chains, baobab tree coffins and the magical Lake Fundudzi - presumably, Jenkins used some or all of these elements in the book itself. Four draft pages of the manuscript were discovered in 2005, in which we learn that the Double-O Section has been closed down and James Bond defies M on a matter of principle, resigning from MI6 to pursue his mission in South Africa alone.
Despite such promising-sounding material, and the fact that Jenkins was a best-selling thriller writer in the Fleming mould, had been a friend and colleague of Fleming's and had apparently had his blessing and input for the project, Glidrose rejected Jenkins' submitted manuscript. Peter Janson-Smith later recalled that he thought it was badly written, although he admitted that Glidrose may have been "stricter in those days."
A copy of the manuscript is rumoured to exist in the archives of Ian Fleming Publications (renamed from Glidrose in 1998) - however, Peter Janson-Smith has said that he doesn't believe Ian Fleming Publications still holds a copy and that the most likely scenario is that the manuscript was returned for legal reasons (so as to not be sued in the future for plagiarism if a book with a similar plot is used). Jenkins' contract with Glidrose gave him a licence to re-use the material in the novel in the event of its rejection, with the proviso that he could not use any of Fleming's characters. Jenkins may have done this: his 1973 novel A Cleft Of Stars, while not containing any rogue British secret agents, is set in almost precisely the same area of South Africa, involves diamonds and gold, and the hero temporarily hides himself in a baobab tree.
In 2005, Titan Books published a reprint of a comic strip based upon Colonel Sun. In the introduction, it is stated that in the mid-1970s Amis lobbied for Eon Productions (producers of the Bond film franchise) to produce a film based upon his book. Reportedly he was told that Saltzman had forbidden that any film be made based on Colonel Sun due to Glidrose refusing to publish Per Fine Ounce a decade earlier.
In 2010, previously unreleased extracts from the "lost" Jenkins manuscript Per Fine Ounce were released exclusively on James Bond website MI6. The extract reveals 007's traditional briefing with "M".[2]
See also[edit]

Portal icon Novels portal
Outline of James Bond
Sources[edit]
Duns, Jeremy. "Gold Dust", Kiss Kiss Bang Bang magazine, Issue 2 (Winter 2005), pp. 39–47
Lane, Andy and Paul Simpson. The Bond Files: An Unofficial Guide to the World's Greatest Secret Agent revised edition. London: Virgin Books, 2000; p. 433.
Page, James. "The Genesis of Colonel Sun" in James Bond 007: Colonel Sun. London: Titan Books, 2005; np.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Britton, Wesley (2010). "Microsoft Word - jenkins review - jenkins_review.pdf". pdf.js. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
2.Jump up ^ "MI6 :: The Home of James Bond :: Per Fine Ounce - Exclusive Extract". MI6 (London). 2010-01-26. Retrieved 2011-03-30.


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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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The Killing Zone
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Not to be confused with Kill zone (disambiguation).
The Killing Zone

Author
Jim Hatfield
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
James Bond (unofficial)
Genre
Spy novel
Publisher
"A Charter Book"

Publication date
 1985
Media type
Print (paperback)
ISBN
NA
The Killing Zone is an unauthorised James Bond novel by Jim Hatfield. It was privately published in paperback in 1985 under the guise that it was officially sanctioned by Glidrose Publications (later Ian Fleming Publications), the company that held the rights to publish James Bond literary works. At the time, the official author of the Bond series was John Gardner who wrote from 1981 to 1996.
It was first published in the United Kingdom as "A Charter Book" but is no longer in print.[1] The text is available on the Internet, however.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 See also
3 Footnotes
4 External links

Plot[edit]
The novel begins with the murder of Bill Tanner by Klaus Doberman, a German-South American drug lord. Enraged by his friend's death, Bond disobeys his official orders to get revenge. According to the cover blurb on the back of the book, "In this new high voltage spy thriller, Secret Agent 007 must "liquidate" ruthless billionaire kingpin Klaus Doberman. But James Bond has his hands full as he battles a luscious lady assassin who offers lethal love Russian style and a slit-eyed Oriental sadist who is an elusive and deadly Ninja. Aided by his confederate Lotta Head and his old CIA buddy Felix Leiter, 007 is pitted against Klaus Doberman in his heavily armed fortress high in the Mexican Sierra Madres ... in the most bloodcurdling death duel in the great Bond saga."
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
Footnotes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "A Ruse By Any Other Name Is Still A Ruse". Retrieved 2006-06-18.
External links[edit]
CommanderBond.net - The Mystery of The Killing Zone
Online text version of The Killing Zone.


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 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
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 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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Take Over (James Bond)
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Take Over is an unpublished 1970 James Bond novel purportedly written by Ian Fleming six years after his death. Spy author Donald McCormick believes this "remarkable story" is perhaps Ian Fleming's strangest legacy.[1] In 1970 a retired bank officer and his daughter who have never been identified claimed to have transcribed works from the "great beyond" by deceased authors. None of the works has ever been published.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 History
3 Tales of Mystery and Imagination
4 W. Somerset Maugham ghost novel
5 See also
6 References
7 Bibliography

Plot[edit]
Few details are known other than the plot involves "a poisonous gas which will enable its users to dominate the world."[1] Peter Fleming conceded that this was "the sort of preposterous, cosmic story-line which might have occurred to Ian."[2] Traditional Bond elements such as M, Miss Moneypenny and Universal Exports also appear, though the story contains no sex, unlike other Bond novels.[2]
History[edit]
Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, died on 12 August 1964 of a heart attack. His brother Peter Fleming, himself also an author and occasional novelist, was a director of Glidrose Publications, the corporate entity Ian Fleming had established to administer the Bond copyright.[3] Donald McCormick describes Peter Fleming as "level-headed" and "down-to-earth."[1]

An obelisk marking the site of the Fleming family grave

 Ian Fleming's grave and memorial at Sevenhampton
In October 1970[4] a retired 73 year-old bank officer - only identified as "Mr. A." - wrote to Peter Fleming cryptically offering some "unusual" and "very pleasurable" news about Peter's late brother Ian. Mr. A. asked to meet Peter Fleming at the latter's Oxfordshire estate. Peter Fleming reluctantly agreed and so a meeting was set for the following Sunday.[2]
Mr. A. traveled from Hertfordshire with his middle-aged daughter Vera. With them was a 60,000 word manuscript entitled Take Over: A James Bond Thriller.[2]
Mr. A.'s wife - Vera's mother - had died in 1967. In December 1969, when Vera was recovering from an illness, she glanced at her mother's framed photograph on the piano and wished they could still talk. With pen in hand Vera found herself writing - with difficulty - on the writing pad in front of her, "I love you Vera."[2]
Further extrasensory communication ensued. The automatic writing gradually became easier and the handwriting became that of her mother's. According to Vera and her father, Vera's handwriting "had always been rounded, loopy and backward-sloping." Vera had struggled to correct this having been repeatedly told at school that such penmanship was "a sign of bad character". But no matter how often school masters implored her, she could not remedy matters. But whilst transmitting messages from her mother, her own handwriting became sharp, pointed and italic, sloping "steeply forwards" like her mother's.[2]



Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930).


H. G. Wells (1866-1946).


Edgar Wallace (1875–1932).


George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950).
At first the deceased Mrs. A. began describing life after death to her daughter. Eventually Mrs. A. began dictating new works of fiction by deceased authors who would not let death hamper their literary ambitions. Also in this spiritual consortium were Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Edgar Wallace, Ruby M. Ayres and W. Somerset Maugham. When Ayres "dropped out" George Bernard Shaw replaced her. Vera transcribed these communications in longhand.[2]
Peter Fleming's biographer Duff Hart-Davis could not imagine anybody "harder-headed than Peter" in such matters, yet Peter Fleming readily agreed to read the manuscript.[3]
Peter Fleming quickly grew sceptical having read only several pages. The prose and execution were nothing like Ian's. For example, the authors "described a room in a private house as a lounge," something Peter Fleming believed his brother Ian would never do no matter how "villainous the occupants." Mr. A. urged Peter Fleming to read what he considered to be one of the novel's "most exciting chapters." Peter Fleming told his guests that despite strenuous effort, he could not recognize his brother's prose. Vera, who sat with pad on knee, quickly wrote in her mother's handwriting that Ian "realizes the book is not his style but hopes to be able eventually to get this over correctly, although it may take time."[2]
Peter Fleming had not intended to communicate with the spirit world, but needed to scrutinise his visitor's bona-fides. He asked Vera several questions about Ian: Ian's middle name, Ian's son Caspar's second name, Ian's house-colours at Eton, the name of the boy who broke Ian's nose at Eton, and the Russian for "yes". Vera correctly answered the first two questions. Anybody who'd read John Pearson's The Life of Ian Fleming could answer these and Mr. A. admitted that he'd eagerly read and re-read the Pearson work. But the three final questions stumped her and she gave uncertain, incorrect answers. The spirit - if it were indeed that - could not remember how many children Peter Fleming had, nor their names nor their gender.[2]
Against his better judgment, Peter Fleming found the site of Vera transcribing messages fascinating. Throughout the meeting she "sat quietly, her pen poised, waiting for a message" from the spirit world. "Her hand, after a period of stillness, would gradually begin to twitch."[3]
After this meeting - the first of three - ended. Sceptical as he was, Peter Fleming was intrigued. So excited was he by the visitation that he drove straightaway to animatedly tell a nearby neighbour immediately after Mr. A. and Vera had left.[3]
Privately Peter Fleming thought the novel unusually incompetent, the story "implausible and silly," the style "a tasteless pastiche of the original", and the novel utterly and suspiciously devoid of sex.[2] Yet the matter intrigued him. No matter how Peter Fleming looked at the matter, "a lot of energy was at work here."[5] Vera allegedly had "no literary background" nor did she apparently show any "inclination" to write fiction. Further, she worked full-time, had a house to run and an ailing husband to care for. Peter Fleming believed that under normal circumstances it would have been remarkable enough for someone like herself and in her position to write over one hundred thousand words in eight months. Duff Hart-Davis, himself also a novelist, notes that "the sheer energy needed to put 100,000 words on paper is enormous," and could not discern where Vera's "momentum could have emanated."[3]
Hart-Davis believes that Peter Fleming failed to consider the possibility that Mr. A. had unknowingly transmitted the communications "telepathically and subconsciously" to Vera. Certainly the "slushy" prose in Take Over and the other manuscripts were the sort a man like Mr. A. with his background would perpetrate. The manuscripts frequently used the adjective "pleasurable" as did Mr. A. in conversation; even Mr. A.'s initial letter to Peter Fleming promised "very pleasurable news concerning your late brother Ian."[3] A communication purportedly from Maugham claimed that the deceased authors wished for those still alive to believe life continues after death and that "life goes on and very pleasurably I can assure you.".[6]
Despite this, Hart-Davis admits that this theory suffers by not explaining how Vera could so readily write in her mother's hand.[3]
According to the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners, persons wishing to disguise their handwriting often "changed their slant, or used backhand as a disguise element."[7]
No matter, this incident "greatly enlivened"[3] Peter Fleming's final winter - he died of a heart attack in August 1971 - and "in the spring of 1971" wrote an article which he submitted to The Sunday Times who accepted it offering GB£500 for the "first British serial rights" and made it the weekly main feature[3] publishing it in their 18 July 1971 issue.[5]
As for Take Over, Peter Fleming rejected the novel but permitted Mr. A. to submit the work to Jonathan Cape, the firm that had published Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. In November 1970 Mr A. submitted Take Over to Cape's who "not surprisingly rejected it."[3]
Tales of Mystery and Imagination[edit]
In November 1970 - soon after meeting Peter Fleming - Vera began transcribing a 30,000 word anthology entitled Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Within two months Edgar Wallace had written five stories, H. G. Wells and Ian Fleming two each, Arthur Conan Doyle and W. Somerset Maugham one each.[3][6]
Peter Fleming read this manuscript and dismissed the stories as "tosh." According to author Duff Hart-Davis, the works were "crude, devoid of literary merit, and all almost exactly the same" despite purportedly being the work of different authors with distinct prose styles.[3]
W. Somerset Maugham ghost novel[edit]



W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965). Maugham photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1934.
In early 1971, after finishing Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Vera began transcribing a full-length novel by Maugham.
“ Hope and fear continuously cantered in and out of my uncertain mind as I gazed from the opened latticed window upon the scurrying, fluttering, eddying autumn leaves caught and twirled hither and thither by the wind. ”
—an excerpt from a purported 1971 ghost work by the deceased W. Somerset Maugham, [2]

This too Peter Fleming read but remarked that "the highly regarded author's style has changed sharply since his death in 1965."[2]
Having written several thousand words, Vera ceased transcribing the work when her husband - who had been ailing for some time - died in February 1971. Journalist Ron Speer believes the death of Vera's husband is "perhaps fortunate from a literary standpoint".[6] Thereafter she exclusively devoted her automatic writing to corresponding with her deceased husband.

See also[edit]
list of modern channelled texts
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c McCormick 1993, p. 182-183.
2.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l Fleming, Peter (18 July 1971). "Take Over: the strange affair of the James Bond novel Ian Fleming "wrote" six years after his death". The Sunday Times (London).
3.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l Hart-Davis 1974, p. 388-393.
4.Jump up ^ Druce 1992, p. 76.
5.^ Jump up to: a b Ruthven 1979, p. 63-64, and footnote #55 on p.216.
6.^ Jump up to: a b c Speer, Ron (2 August 1971). "Hereafter Raises Literary Talents". St. Petersburg Times. p. 1D, 4D.
7.Jump up ^ Harris, John J. (January–February 1953). "Disguised Handwriting". Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology and Police Science (43): 685–9.
Bibliography[edit]
Druce, Robert (1988). This Day Our Daily Fictions: A Comparative Study of the Writings of Enid Blyton and Ian Fleming. Eburon.
Griswold, John (June 2006). Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations And Chronologies for Ian Fleming's Bond Stories. AuthorHouse. ISBN 978-1-4259-3100-1.
Hart-Davis, Duff (1974). Peter Fleming: A Biography. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0-224-01028-X.
McCormick, Donald (1993). 17F: The Life of Ian Fleming. Peter Owen Publishers. ISBN 9780720608885.
Ruthven, K.K. (1979). Critical Assumptions. CUP Archive. ISBN 9780521222570.


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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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The Moneypenny Diaries: Final Fling
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The Moneypenny Diaries: Final Fling

Author
Samantha Weinberg
 as "Kate Westbrook"
Illustrator
Unknown
Cover artist
Stina Perrson
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy novel
Publisher
John Murray

Publication date
 1 May 2008
Media type
Unknown
Pages
Unknown
ISBN
978-0-7195-6780-3
OCLC
191243512
Preceded by
Secret Servant: The Moneypenny Diaries
The Moneypenny Diaries: Final Fling [1] is the third in a trilogy of novels chronicling the life of Miss Moneypenny, M's personal secretary in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. The diaries are penned by Samantha Weinberg under the pseudonym Kate Westbrook, who is depicted as the book's "editor". The novel was published by John Murray publishers on May 1, 2008 in the UK in hardcover followed by the paperback on October 30, 2008.[2] As with the second volume, no North American release has been announced as of May 2009.


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

Plot introduction[edit]
From saving spies to private passions, this book covers the secret adventures of James Bond's right-hand woman. Jane Moneypenny may project a cool, calm and collected image but her secret diaries reveal a rather different story. Kate Westbrook is trying to publish Miss Moneypenny's diaries, but everyone she speaks to about them is trying to stop her. Whilst in consultation with Tanner it is hinted to Westbrook that her aunt was murdered because she was searching too hard for the MI6 mole.[3]
Locations for this final adventure include Jamaica, the Outer Hebrides, Cambridge, and London. The storyline is almost evenly divided between the adventures of Miss Moneypenny and the modern adventures of author “Kate Westbrook.”[4]
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Moneypenny takes a ‘Final Fling’". The Literary 007. Retrieved May 23, 2007.[dead link]
2.Jump up ^ "'The Moneypenny Diaries' Vol. 3 Release Dates". The Moneypenny Diaries: Book 3 Release date. Retrieved May 22, 2007.
3.Jump up ^ "MI6.co.uk - Samantha Weinberg Interview". The Moneypenny Diaries: Plot Summary. Retrieved March 15, 2007.
4.Jump up ^ "More details of Moneypenny’s 'Final Fling'". The Literary 007. Retrieved September 3, 2007.[dead link]
External links[edit]
Ian Fleming Publications official website
Samantha Weinberg Secret Servant interview - MI6.co.uk
The Samantha Weinberg CBn Interview


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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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Secret Servant: The Moneypenny Diaries
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The Moneypenny Diaries: Secret Servant
Secret Servant.jpg
First edition UK hardback

Author
Samantha Weinberg
 as "Kate Westbrook"
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy novel
Publisher
John Murray

Publication date
 2 November 2006
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
320 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-7195-6767-X (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
69484530
Preceded by
The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel
Followed by
The Moneypenny Diaries: Final Fling
Secret Servant: The Moneypenny Diaries is the second in a trilogy of novels chronicling the life of Miss Moneypenny, M's personal secretary in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. The diaries are penned by Samantha Weinberg under the pseudonym Kate Westbrook, who is depicted as the book's "editor." Published by John Murray publishers, Secret Servant was released on November 2, 2006 in the UK[1] following the first instalment, subtitled Guardian Angel that was released in 2005. No North American release has been announced as of October 2008.


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

Plot introduction[edit]
From saving spies to private passions, this book covers the secret adventures of James Bond's right-hand woman. Jane Moneypenny may project a cool, calm and collected image but her secret diaries reveal a rather different story. In the grip of an uncertain love affair and haunted by a dark family secret, the last thing she needs is a crisis at work. But the Secret Intelligence Service is in chaos. One senior officer is on trial for treason, another has defected to Moscow and her beloved James Bond has been brainwashed by the KGB. Only a woman's touch can save them. Moneypenny soon finds herself embroiled in a highly charged adventure infused with the glamour of the Cold War espionage game. Alone on a dangerous Russian mission she turns, with breathless intimacy, to writing a truly explosive private diary.
Production[edit]
In order to write the book Weinberg met up with ex Secret Service agents and even traveled to Moscow to meet Kim Philby's widow.[2]
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Secret Servant information". Secret Servant: The Moneypenny Diaries Coming In November. Retrieved May 13, 2006.[dead link]
2.Jump up ^ "MI6 Samantha Weinberg Interview". Retrieved 9 May 2011.
External links[edit]
Ian Fleming Publications official website
Secret Servant review - The Young Bond Dossier
Samantha Weinberg Secret Servant interview - MI6
The Samantha Weinberg CBn Interview


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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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The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel
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The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel
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First edition UK hardback

Author
Samantha Weinberg
 as "Kate Westbrook"
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
James Bond
Genre
Spy novel
Publisher
John Murray

Publication date
 2005 (UK)
 2008 (US)
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN
0-7195-6868-4
Followed by
Secret Servant: The Moneypenny Diaries
The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel is the first in a planned trilogy of novels chronicling the life of Miss Moneypenny, M's personal secretary in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. The diaries were authored by Samantha Weinberg under the pseudonym Kate Westbrook, who is depicted as the book's editor. The first instalment, subtitled Guardian Angel was released in the United Kingdom on October 10, 2005 by John Murray publishers. A United States edition was published by Thomas Dunne Books on May 13, 2008,[1] although this edition has no subtitle.
The second volume of the series, Secret Servant: The Moneypenny Diaries was published on November 2, 2006 in the UK.[2]
Weinberg is the first woman to write an officially licensed James Bond-related novel.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot introduction
2 An authorised book?
3 Publication history
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Plot introduction[edit]
The first diary fills in the gaps between a number of agent 007's missions including the period between On Her Majesty's Secret Service and You Only Live Twice, but also includes an entire backstory for Moneypenny. For the first time since Fleming introduced the character alongside Bond in Casino Royale, Moneypenny is given a first name: Jane.
An authorised book?[edit]
Although it has since been announced as an official book from Ian Fleming Publications, the holder of the literary rights to James Bond, there was some confusion and even deception prior to release as to whether the book was actually authorised by them.
The trilogy had originally been touted as the secret journal of a "real" Miss Moneypenny and that James Bond was a possible pseudonym for a genuine intelligence officer, the idea of which was perhaps influenced similarly to John Pearson's 1973 authorised biography of James Bond. James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007 was based on the obituary in Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice in which Fleming hints that Bond is perhaps a real man.
An investigation by The Sunday Times into whether or not The Moneypenny Diaries were in some way real forced John Murray publishers to admit that the novel was in fact a "spoof".[3] Prior to the admission, Kate Westbrook was said to be niece of the "real" Jane Moneypenny and that the diaries were discovered after her death in 1990. It was also claimed that Westbrook was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, however, the college replied stating no such person was in employment there. In an interview, Weinberg revealed that the 'Kate Westbrook' subterfuge stretched as far as her wearing a wig and coloured contact lenses for media interviews and at the launch party.[4]
The novel was officially recognized as an authorised book from Ian Fleming Publications on the day of the book's publication in the UK, October 10, 2005. A side-effect of the deception resulted in a delay in this book finding an American publisher.
Publication history[edit]
UK first hardback edition: October 10, 2005 John Murray
UK first paperback edition: May 8, 2006 John Murray
US first hardback edition: May 13, 2008 Thomas Dunne Books
See also[edit]
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "The Moneypenny Diaries Released in the U.S.". Moneypenny Finally Lands Stateside. Retrieved May 13, 2008.
2.Jump up ^ "Secret Servant information". Secret Servant: The Moneypenny Diaries Coming In November. Retrieved May 13, 2006.[dead link]
3.Jump up ^ Brooks, Richard (August 28, 2005). "Moneypenny Diaries investigation". Moneypenny,these diaries can't be true (London). Retrieved October 28, 2005.
4.Jump up ^ "Samantha Weinberg interview". The Samantha Weinberg CBn Interview. Retrieved October 28, 2005.
External links[edit]
Ian Fleming Publications official website
The Samantha Weinberg CBn Interview


[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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The Moneypenny Diaries
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The Moneypenny Diaries is a series of novels and short stories chronicling the life of Miss Moneypenny, M's personal secretary in Ian Fleming's James Bond series; it is considered an official spin-off of the Bond books. The diaries are penned by Samantha Weinberg under the pseudonym Kate Westbrook, who is depicted as the book's "editor." The series is planned to be a trilogy, although in 2006, Weinberg also published two short stories: "For Your Eyes Only, James" and "Moneypenny's First Date With Bond", both of which appeared in UK magazines.
Stories in the series[edit]
The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel (2005): The first diary fills in the gaps between a number of agent 007's missions including the period between On Her Majesty's Secret Service and You Only Live Twice, but also includes an entire backstory for Moneypenny. For the first time since Fleming introduced the character alongside Bond in Casino Royale, Moneypenny is given a first name: Jane.
"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006 short story): Published in the November issue of Tatler, the short story tells the tale of a weekend shared between Bond and Moneypenny at Royale-les-Eaux (see Casino Royale) in 1956.
Secret Servant: The Moneypenny Diaries (2006): Taking place around the time of The Man with the Golden Gun, the secret service is in chaos with one senior official on trial for treason, another having defected to Moscow, and agent 007 brainwashed by the Soviets.
"Moneypenny's First Date With Bond" (2006 short story): Published in the November 11, 2006 issue of The Spectator, the short story tells the tale of Moneypenny's and James Bond's first meeting.
The Moneypenny Diaries: Final Fling (2008):
See also[edit]

Portal icon Novels portal
James Bond uncollected short stories
External links[edit]
Ian Fleming Publications official website


[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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Fictional diaries
Novels by Samantha Weinberg


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