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Ah, I see. I sadly expected as much. I had hoped that the Exclusive edition would have had something at the back to make it worthwhile. Waterstones Exclusive editions usually always do have some extras at the back. I know there's not meant to be any new Fleming material but I expected more than that such as, say, an interview with Horowitz on the writing process.
Hence, I will wait for the paperback.
Well, if this is supposedly his first assignment post-TMWTGGG, that would do it.
I don’t know, but Horowitz has openly said that he thinks CS is better than some of the non Fleming books. Even to the point of questioning why EON never filmed it.
There’s a paperback?
Amazon has the details: https://www.amazon.de/Mind-Kill-Anthony-Horowitz/dp/1787333493/ref=monarch_sidesheet
269 pages
Size: 15.3 x 2.1 x 23.4 cm (Hardcover is marginally larger: 16.2 x 2.8 x 24.0)
I don't tend to get too hung up on continuity between continuation Bond novels any more, especially since the Fleming-Amis-Gardner-Benson continuity ended twenty years ago. There's no longer any attempt at keeping everything within the same continuity and linking all of the books together as Gardner and especially Benson did. These new post-2008 Bond authors seem to work to their own continuity either set just after Fleming or before or during his run. Devil May Care was set in 1967 and said to be Bond's first mission since the one reported in TMWTGG too as I recall. I think like the films there is very much a rolling continuity when it comes to the literary Bond now, but even more so. Whatever happens Colonel Sun will always be canon to me as it came first, was actually written in the 1960s and feels more authentic than many of the newer Bond novels do. For me it's still the best Bond continuation novel of the lot. I imagine it's unassailable at this point as time has moved on and short of hopping into a time machine the 1960s and its style and attitudes have long since passed into history.
The exclusive content does actually feature some original Fleming content (a short section of quoted dialogue, followed by a synopsis of 'Bond Goes To Jail'), but that's part of an essay on why Horowitz found that the Fleming story he wanted to feature wouldn't fit into his book as he planned. I haven't read the essay as I think it would spoil what happens in the book if I did :)
Cheers, @zebrafish
That's enough for me to go ahead and get it. Could you please post the link so I am sure to get the correct edition?
Yes, that's the one I ordered myself yesterday.
And having read it I don’t see anything in it that negates Colonel Sun personally.
That's the edition I received. The Fleming content is brief.
Could anybody share it, please? You can PM me, of course... ;)
For what it's worth I received the US hardcover and it has dark blue boards, no image or design inlaid.
This is a good weekend for a good read.
Oh that’s good to know, thanks!
Sorry, I preordered it so long ago and my email confirmation doesn’t seem to link to the sales page. It’s just listed as ‘signed edition’.
https://markoconnell.co.uk/catching-the-cold-bullet-reviewing-anthony-horowitzs-new-bond-novel-with-a-mind-to-kill/
https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2022/05/25/a-sampling-of-with-a-mind-to-kill-reviews/
I think Anthony Horowitz is a rarity among Bond people: he’s going out on a high note.
That's good to hear. Has it been announced this is his last one?