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I'm sure it will be a-maze-ing.
I wonder if we'll get character bits like this again.
Double or Nothing: A Double
O Novel Kindle Edition
by Kim Sherwood (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Double-Nothing-Novel-Kim-Sherwood-ebook/dp/B0B6JNG7BW/ref=sr_1_37?crid=XLFU5K8N8WF0&keywords=kindle+"james+bond"&qid=1704846854&sprefix=kindle+james+bond+,aps,84&sr=8-37
Yes, thank you.
I feel you. As a traditionalist, I much prefer adult Bond continuation novels where Bond actually features in them. Fancy that?
let me get this right. . . James Bond is missing and the story's about three other 00 agents. One is an action-woman who is an expert fighter, another is a Muslim who says "may Allah bless your family" on missions, and the third is a bloke who just happens to be black, gay and disabled.
Okay . . . .
Looks like the book is cheaply trying to follow certain trends. I doubt many fans will enjoy it. I don't have time to read many Bond novels beyond Fleming's golden works anyway, so I'll take a pass, especially reading what @ColonelAdamski just posted.
I'm being a little bit unfair, because it's well-written and I'm enjoying it. But the whole diversity thing does come across a bit jarring. They've just been to Q branch, and the new characters working there are called Aisha and Ibrahim.
At the risk of coming across as a steaming, mouth foaming racist . . . it all seems a bit forced.
No, you nailed it, @ColonelAdamski. Diversity is a thing, and it makes sense that not all characters are lily-white, heterosexual, and male. But it happens that things feel forced, and then I'm taken out of the story of a film or a book. I like characters, no matter how diverse, that play in a story where the arrows are pointed at the story, not at the diversity of the characters (unless that is the story, of course.) Diversity, sadly, can easily be politicised. Obviously, I don't know if Sherwood or the book's publishers were pushing an agenda. Most likely not.
There's even a bit where Bond is told
MI6 have received a vital clue telling them James Bond – missing for over a year – is alive. Meanwhile, a bomb has detonated in BBC Broadcasting House, London. 003, 004 and 000 must smash a smuggling network funding terror. As they move through the world of diamond dealing and art and antiquities looting, from Venice to Crete, Australia to Dubai, they find themselves unexpectedly inching ever closer to Bond, James Bond…
Six days. Three agents. One chance to find James Bond.
As if one could imagine James Bond disappearing FOR A YEAR.
I could if he was on Octopussy's island.
Or making love to Honey Ryder on the boat, at least for a day or two.
How long was he gone in Skyfall? And he vanishes off the face of the earth in YOLT, the novel. He's in a risky job!
Even Craig David managed longer than that. To say nothing of Sting...
There's also his extendwd imprisonment in DAD @Agent_99.
I was more kidding about the gaps between films to be honest.
Oh, duh, that went over my head!
I wonder how long he was actually missing in DAD and how long MI6 knew where he was but just left him to stew?
It's open to debate of course but it was long enough for the world to have changed (9/11) while he was away.
M more or less said she knew where he was. She also seemingly forgot that Bond had recently helped her. He saved from her poor job choices with Elektra King. Then, after almost all of DAD, she claims that she always trusted him. I don’t think Kim Sherwood/Moneypenny (who is M here) will make the same EON writing mistake/trademark. If Bond is found, of course. Also, Kim said she basically has book 3 done, just making some edits. We should see the marketing for ASLM start up soon. I like the idea of diamond smuggling again.
Same here. Like you, I'm a literary Bond continuation traditionalist at heart.
I know we all want a modern day literary Bond book. But Bond has great characters that deserve some time to shine. At least this is modern day, and Bond is around.