007 is dead, so a new 007--named James Bond--sets out to avenge his predecessor's death, and subsequently prevent an attack on America, in Anthony Horowitz's Forever and a Day.
This is Horowitz's second Bond novel, after Trigger Mortis, and like its predecessor this novel sits very comfortably in the Ian Fleming timeline and written in that classic style. His last Bond novel took place immediately after Goldfinger, and this one slots in just before Casino Royale.
Thus we have a rookie Bond, being helped along by an older, enigmatic freelance agent called Madame Sixtine. Horowitz has fun staging the origins of a lot of Bond's interests and habits shown in later novels. And of course, adds a couple of oversized villains orchestrating a Byzantine plot.
For fans of the classic Bond, Horowitz hits all of the right notes.
I listened to a good audiobook reading of this novel on loan from the New Castle-Henry County Public Library in New Castle, Indiana.
This is Horowitz's second Bond novel, after Trigger Mortis, and like its predecessor this novel sits very comfortably in the Ian Fleming timeline and written in that classic style. His last Bond novel took place immediately after Goldfinger, and this one slots in just before Casino Royale.
Thus we have a rookie Bond, being helped along by an older, enigmatic freelance agent called Madame Sixtine. Horowitz has fun staging the origins of a lot of Bond's interests and habits shown in later novels. And of course, adds a couple of oversized villains orchestrating a Byzantine plot.
For fans of the classic Bond, Horowitz hits all of the right notes.
I listened to a good audiobook reading of this novel on loan from the New Castle-Henry County Public Library in New Castle, Indiana.
