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WITH A MIND TO KILL by Anthony Horowitz (May 2022)
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United Kingdom
We'll find out tomorrow: I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a third Horowitz.
EDIT: (28/5/21)
According to the Bookseller:
Anthony Horowitz will write his third official James Bond novel, to be published by Jonathan Cape in 2022.
Publishing director Michal Shavit acquired UK and Commonwealth, EU and audio rights to the currently untitled new Bond novel from Jonny Geller of Curtis Brown, on behalf of Ian Fleming Publications.
...Horowitz said: "I am very excited to have started my third Bond novel with the continuing support of the Ian Fleming estate. Forever and a Day looked at Bond’s first assignment. Trigger Mortis was mid-career. The new book begins with the death of Scaramanga and Bond’s return from Jamaica to confront an old enemy."
Corinne Turner, managing director of Ian Fleming Publications, added: "We're delighted and excited that Anthony has started his third Bond novel. From the nuggets we’ve seen so far, we are confident it will be another bestselling episode in the adventures of 007."
Shavit commented: "We are incredibly excited to be announcing the news on Ian Fleming’s birthday that we have a new James Bond novel by Anthony to look forward to next year. We can’t wait to share more details with readers of the iconic spy’s latest adventure under Anthony’s masterful tenure."
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Yes I thought he himself had even made a very slight hint in an interview or something that he would do another. Busy guy though.
It would fun if they could announce it close to publication date though if it is finished.
It could be something less substantial though, like a graphic novel adaptation or new Young Bond author or something. We can't set our hopes up way too high! :)
EDIT: I've just seen folks talking about a tweet from Horowitz which he seems to have deleted... I think it's looking good...
(sorry, I meant to edit my previous post and managed to quote it instead)
I know :D
:))
so I'm excited to get my hands on a new novel ( Hoping that's what's being announced )
Dynamite’s Moonraker adaptation.
New Dynamite Comics Storyline.
Anthony Horowitz and IFP have teamed up with 101 Interactive for Project 007.
A new possible author.
Anthony Horowitz and EON working on a screenplay together.
Or most likely:
A third Anthony Horowitz novel.
All of the above? Let’s see what happens!
But you want the new unseen Fleming content, yes?
Could be, yes! Any of those, good thinking!
The book of the film!
"You've never seen the film. Now read the book!"
Okay, that's funny. =))
Anthony Horowitz will write his third official James Bond novel, to be published by Jonathan Cape in 2022.
Publishing director Michal Shavit acquired UK and Commonwealth, EU and audio rights to the currently untitled new Bond novel from Jonny Geller of Curtis Brown, on behalf of Ian Fleming Publications.
...Horowitz said: "I am very excited to have started my third Bond novel with the continuing support of the Ian Fleming estate. Forever and a Day looked at Bond’s first assignment. Trigger Mortis was mid-career. The new book begins with the death of Scaramanga and Bond’s return from Jamaica to confront an old enemy."
Corinne Turner, managing director of Ian Fleming Publications, added: "We're delighted and excited that Anthony has started his third Bond novel. From the nuggets we’ve seen so far, we are confident it will be another bestselling episode in the adventures of 007."
Shavit commented: "We are incredibly excited to be announcing the news on Ian Fleming’s birthday that we have a new James Bond novel by Anthony to look forward to next year. We can’t wait to share more details with readers of the iconic spy’s latest adventure under Anthony’s masterful tenure."
Very cool, thanks @Revelator
I wonder if the old enemy is someone we've seen before. I'm trying to think who survived in Fleming's books! :)
SMERSH? Perhaps they were involved in Bond's brainwashing in Russia.
Yeah, I guess Klebb's death is a bit vague and 'offscreen': she might turn out to be alive?
I cannot remember if Irma Bunt survived at the end of YOLT.
Also, if this story takes place after TMWTGG, does that mean it wipes out the timeline set by Amis and Colonel Sun, which was also supposed to have happened just after TMWTGG?
That's a good call. Maybe it's the Bunt/Klebb team-up we've all been hoping for! :D
I'm actually re-reading that at the moment and I haven't spotted anything which ties it in too closely to the end of TMWTGG.
Yes, I'd heard a rumour that the new Bond novel from Horowitz picked up where Fleming left off with The Man with the Golden Gun. It seems it was true then. As a primarily traditionalist Bond continuation fan (Amis/Gardner/Benson) I do prefer the novels to be set after Fleming's novels and timeline as I consider his novels sacrosanct and I don't really like them messing about with the original timeline.
According to Fleming in Thunderball (1961) SMERSH were disbanded in 1958 so it couldn't be them. However, it could still be one of the Soviet alphabet soup of intelligence organs that followed it such as how John Gardner brought what was effectively SMERSH back under different names. He could just use the KGB too with the old enemy just being the Soviets in general. In fact I think the KGB were behind is brainwashing between You Only Live Twice and The Man with the Golden Gun so that fits.
The Man with the Golden Gun is actually mentioned on the very first page of Colonel Sun when Bond is playing golf with Bill Tanner on the Sunningdale golf course:
"[Bond] had managed to clear two hundred and fifty yards straight down the middle, a shot that had demanded every ounce of effort without (blessed relief) the slightest complaint from the area where, last summer, Scaramanga's Derringer slug had torn through his abdomen."
Exactly: plenty of room for this new book to slot in.
I remember it mentioning the climactic events at the Japanese Castle of Death later on as well although of course that was earlier again in the Fleming Bond timeline.
I suppose the only conceivable issue with setting the new Horowitz novel after Fleming's The Man with the Golden Gun is the fact that Colonel Sun is set directly after that novel as well. The Man with the Golden Gun was set in 1964 and the internal evidence points to Colonel Sun having been set in 1965 even though it was written in 1967 and published in 1968. Glidrose of course had to wait until 1966 and the last Fleming novel and short story collection were published posthumously before they could embark on the idea of an official Continuation Bond novel. Of course continuity between the post-Fleming Bond continuation authors has never exactly been set in stone. The brief from Glidrose/IFP appears to have been that the new Bond author could keep or discard that which their predecessor in the role had done as the mood took them. The bedrock of Fleming was obviously viewed as sacrosanct though everything else was not considered the Gospel. Just as no UK parliament can bind its successors no Bond continuation author can tie the hands of his successors if they want to do something else creatively with the character, plot or dialogue.
Well there's the firm evidence on the first page of Colonel Sun with that line about Bond being shot by Scaramanga's Derringer as occurring "last summer" so I take that to mean the year before. The year before was 1964 when TMWTGG took place so that means Colonel Sun is set some time in 1965. It obviously wasn't written then and was published three years after it was set, real world time having moved on as I explained in my post above. The Bond Files (2000) mentions that internal evidence such as this points to Colonel Sun being set in 1965 and I can only agree with that. It follows the Fleming timeline with having one big mission for Bond every year and the next year after TMWTGG was 1965. It seems clear enough to me. In later years Faulks's Devil May Care (2008) would be set in 1967 and Boyd's Solo (2013) would be set in 1969. So neither of them negated Colonel Sun occurring directly after TMWTGG in the same way as this new Horowitz Bond novel might. Only time will tell of course in how it will be handled by Horowitz.