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Trigger Mortis

November 28, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Shortly after the events of Goldfinger, James Bond is back in London (with Pussy Galore still in tow) – but not for long. He’s quickly dispatched to the Nürburgring to keep an eye on an English racer who is being targeted by the Russians, only to discover a larger plot in the works between the Russians and a Korean scientist to sabotage a rocket test. With an intrepid Secret Service agent by his side, Bond must stop a disaster […]

Categories: Fiction, Spy • Tags: Anthony Horowitz, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Ian Fleming, James Bond, review, Reviews, Spy, Thriller, Trigger Mortis

Roundup, September 2016

September 30, 2016 by Drew

James Bond: Vargr by Warren Ellis and Jason Masters 4 out of 5 The Short Version: After a revenge mission in Helsinki, Bond returns to London and is handed a case from his fallen comrade’s workload. A new drug has hit English shores and his job is to break up the trafficking operation – but what should be a simple in and out job turns out to be anything but. The Review: The idea of Warren Ellis taking on James […]

Categories: Fiction, Roundup • Tags: 007, A Chooseable Path Adventure, Action, Choose Your Own Adventure, Classics, Family, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Hamlet, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Iain Reed, Ian Fleming, James Bond, Jason Masters, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Literature, Niels Lyhne, Philosophy, Ramona Ausubel, Riverhead, Ryan North, Shakespeare, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, Spy, Thriller, Tiina Nunnally, To Be or Not to Be, Transhumanism, Translation, Vargr, Warren Ellis, William Shakespeare

License Renewed

September 18, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: Bond is back – only it’s now the 1980s and things have changed. Not everything, of course: there’s still an M and a Q and Bond is still Bond and a crazy person has an idea for how to wreak havoc around the world, this time involving nuclear power stations. And only Bond has a chance at stopping him… The Review: Those old Fleming Bond novels are strangely compelling. Not all of them were terrifically well-written (although […]

Categories: Fiction, Spy • Tags: Adventure, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, England, Fiction, Ian Fleming, James Bond, John Gardner, License Renewed, MI-6, Reviews, Spy

Carte Blanche

June 16, 2012 by Drew

The Short Version: After a mission in Serbia leaves unanswered questions, James Bond is tasked to discover the reality behind an intended mass-destruction mission that will “adversely affect British interests.” His trail leads him to Severan Hydt, a recycling magnate with a strange set of perversions, and sets him off around the globe. The clock is ticking and the deck stacked against him, but Bond has carte blanche and will stop at nothing to ensure the safety of British interests […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Carte Blanche, Fiction, Ian Fleming, James Bond, Jeffery Deaver, Spy

Colonel Sun

July 19, 2010 by Drew

I read the Ian Fleming Bond books when I was in high school. They weren’t at all what I expected, actually – I guess because I’d grown up on the movies. The books were more violent, sometimes a lot drier, and often more taut. The story goes that when Ian Fleming died, they approached Kingsley Amis to take up the reins of the series – but, for whatever reason, he only got one novel out before the kibosh was brought […]

Categories: Fiction, Spy • Tags: Colonel Sun, Fiction, James Bond, Robert Markham, Spy

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Trigger Mortis

Roundup, September 2016

License Renewed

Carte Blanche

Colonel Sun