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I've no axe to grind here, or point to prove. I'm a collector and have ordered both. I'm genuinely interested in how you think they've faked the signatures in the waterstones shop you visited.
Is it a printed signature, or has someone used a stamp?
Or something else?
I think the obvious urgency to kill a Japanese on US soil, when at the same time the same US are your most important provider of whatever it takes to fight a war speaks for itself.
Thanks anyway.
PussyNoMore is delighted that his Lordship is taking instruction.
Just to be clear I like and respect you immensely old chap (as a literary Bond fan of some vintage) but I'll have to draw the line at this thing about Fleming being the first continuation author. That is just utter madness to me! Anyway, if that is all we disagree on... :)
I wonder if the case of the Norwegian happened in a pre-DDR Germany, and that he answered to people in the Soviet occupation zone? Take it that 1949 or later (when DDR was established) would be too late…?
Or did Fleming skew the timeframe of those events to fit his own narrative, by just not mentioning the war? Would be interesting to hear Horowitz's thoughts about this, actually.
The thing is why would Bond be sent to kill those two men who were working for two of the Axis Powers (Germany and Japan) after WWII was over. That makes zero sense to me. The only way that it does make sense is if the two assassinations occurred during the said war.
That's how I've always understood it but perhaps Mr Horowitz will enlighten us better on this issue in his forthcoming Bond prequel novel?
PussyNoMore would respectfully direct his Lordship to the appropriate thread on this matter.
It is the great Saunders he is in violent disagreement with.
He set the protocol and Pussy thinks it’s ownly good manners to follow it but to each his own.
Regarding FA&D, PussyNoMore is polishing his Bentley and testing his Amherst Villiers Supercharger in preparation for the launch.
Indeed, if there is a launch event, PussyNoMore will ask him and the point about the occupation zone is more than relevant.
Reading the books, Pussy had always assumed it was late forties and this stuff about it being during the war is news to him but who knows?
Well, certainly, Pussy. You were only following the set form. I can live with that and I like @saunders too of course, though sadly he's not been around of late.
Sorry if I came across as pedantic about the whole continuation Bond thing but as you know it is an area of special interest to me within the realms of Bondology. Apologies for any offence caused. :)
And it took place in Sweden, which is where Norwegians fled during the war. Part of the resistance operated from there, as it wasn t occupied by Germany.
True, there is no saying that the ‘two murders rule’ has to be confined to a specific time frame albeit it is a stretch to imagine him rushing over prior to Pear Harbour to assassinate a Japanese Cypher Clerk at the tender age of 21 and in the case of the Norwegian it could easily have been a mopping up exercise.This is why PussyNoMore prefers Torgeirtrap’s original hypothesis.
Not to confuse fact with fiction but it was long assumed that Alexander Litvinenko was murdered by order of the Kremlin because he was a KGB/FSB defector. It now transpires that his specialist subject was ‘Organised Crime’ and that, at the time of his death,he was active for both Mi6 and and the Spanish CNI in specifically helping them with their war on the Russian Mafia. Thus giving rise to speculation that it could have been a Mafia hit. That said, many would argue that Putin’s Kremlin and the Mafia are one and the same.
PussyNoMore mentions this to illustrate that in the murky world of intelligence one doesn’t have to have a clear answer for anything and Pussy is quite sure Horowitz will interpret Fleming’s skeletal outline of Bond’s past to suit his own narrative and so he should.
The important thing is that he arrives in his Bentley Blower with his Berreta .25 snugly tucked away in its chamois leather holster, his Moreland specials packed into his gunmetal case and his oxidised Ronson at the ready. Then we can all look forward to some sex and violence set in the most glamorous locations and with none of this #notme3 nonsense or worse still, calls for a gender neutral 007 !
- Signed & Numbered
- Limited Edition
- Sprayed Edges
- Hardcover
- UK First Edition, First Printing
Look at the front cover of the book they are advertising. It clearly states “ With Original Content By Ian Fleming “
Last time it was only the Waterstone’s edition - this time it’s in the Goldsboro - but for all Pussy knows, it could be in all.
PussyNoMore thinks this is relatively clear. N’est-ce-pas ?
PussyNoMore is quite sure that even in the 'fire, steady, aim' world of publishing that they must have it tied down by now - the venue and Horowitz must surely be booked.
Doubtless some n'er-do-well at Cape is just sitting on the thing while they file his or her nails.
The Pussy is prepared to move most things around for Bond but if this lackadaisical attitude towards enthusiasts persists, The Pussy may have to boycott the event !
There, that's them told.
News about the event should be released in the coming weeks, so I wouldn't worry yet. But they should at least have the event announced a month before.
Yes, depending on the type of event the price is often redeemable against purchase of the book - then you can have it signed and dedicated at the end.
TM was in Waterstones Piccadilly and Solo was at The Royal Festival Hall.