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October 4th: Horowitz back for another Bond
October 5th: Daniel Craig also back for another Bond
Must give it another read soon.
Aside from a couple of erroneous period details, 'Trigger Mortis' was pretty much pitch perfect and certainly the best since 'Colonel Sun'.
It will be interesting to see if it is set directly after TM which I guess would make it 1960
and just before Operation Thunderball.
At some point, I'd love to see Horowitz cover Bond's war (or part of it) but I guess if he is obliged to include original Fleming from the TV scripts this will preclude that.
It's also great that Jonathan Cape are publishing the new one - perhaps we'll get some good cover art?
Suzanne Dean did a good job with 'SOLO' albeit, that was the only thing that was good about it. She was obviously quite influenced by the late great Raymond Hawkey.
Maybe we'll get something truly great this time. Personally, I love Gerry Wadsworth's Bond art and would love to see him have a crack at it.
Why thank you, kind sir. I try my best to illuminate things in a neglected field of Bondology.
Sad to think the original version of Bond is considered a neglected field.
That and the continuation are neglected in my opinion. Sad but true. Only my opinion of course.
Yeah, I mean, look at how good Gardner's, Benson's and Deaver's efforts were.
Seriously, why are so many people against a period piece? Trigger Mortis was a period piece and it was the best James Bond novel since Colonel Sun. Granted, it was not just the time setting that made it beautiful, but still.
If IFP hadn't have asked Horowitz to return I would have been genuinely confused.
Happy James Bond week!
... not since Benson? if i am correct - and i don't really count his novelization of DAD, so that would mean TMWTRT? (and i am talking about adult Bond cannon, not the Higson young Bond.)..
i have yet to read or even own Trigger Mortis, will get around to it eventually.....
the last Bond novel i was reading but never finished was Carte Blanche... For a 21st century approach to Bond, I was liking it - there were some awesomely tense moments in there, and the part with Bond having to escape a building rigged to be demolished was great (and it kind of makes me wonder if they purged that bit for the end of SP with the ruined MI6 building)... but i remember leaving off around the part where the villain thinks he's trapped Bond in a lie - and Bond goes through this elaborate ruse of a faux office to convince him otherwise.. that seemed a little silly to me - but everything up to then i liked..
i got to give Solo another try.. the whole beginning with the woman just didn't interest me - it was a lot of build up that ultimately went nowhere, and i kind of lost track of reading it further after that.
Seems like it: "Once again Horowitz's book will be based in the 1960s and will feature previously unpublished material by Ian Fleming."
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/literary-anthony-horowitz-second-james-bond-novel?id=04159
Pity that we have to wait until 2018, but still, I'd much rather wait longer for an author who has proven himself in the literary world of Bond than to wait for a shorter time for another gamble.
Unless I'm mistaken, there's been no official mention of worldwide sales figures for Trigger Mortis.
He couldn't give me much info on the new Bond book but he list off the locations that the book will be set it (I can't remember many of them now but they were all rather classic exotic Bond locations). He also said that there are four Fleming TV treatments remaining but none are as strong as Murder on Wheels so he may need to get creative with it.
The biggest news of all however was that the book will be a prequel to Casino Royale!
That also said, the Dynamite comics are also working on prequel stories set prior to the events of CR. A period piece.
Thanks for the intel! A prequel to the great CR! Great stuff if this eventuates. A more inexperienced Bond in the golden days of espionage will make for fascinating reading. Can you remember any of the locations he mentioned? I wonder if any of Fleming's threatments are based before CR. Too bad we have to wait until 2018 but it'll be worth it, I'm sure. This is a much better option than getting a book sooner but by another author who may mess it up.
@clarkdevlin I knew Dynamite were doing a CR adaptation but I didn't know that they were doing a prequel too. If I had known at the time I would have mentioned it to him. I doubt he keeps up to speed with the world of Bond comics so it will be interesting to see what happens.
Horowitz also mentioned that he is working on an Alex Rider book at the moment and some short stories so he hasn't sat down to focus his attention properly on Bond. That won't happen until next year but he's very excited and eager to jump into that world again. His knowledge of Fleming's books was very impressive and his love for those books really shone through as I was chatting to him.
Which book shall I read? There are so many?
I have no clue and need help.
Let us know how you find those two books and we can recommend some of the novels in between (which can be a mixed bag)
My personal favorite is Colonel Sun. I think partly because the copy I read was an old copy from the library. A real book ...hardcover, aged pages... not a paperback or some digital version.
But beyond that I have a fondness for that book and for Fleming's Moonraker.
Never finished Carte Blanche nor Solo... just didn't take to either of those.