![]() ![]() ![]() Still, Horowitz manages a wide variety of tone, from jokes about how Bond doesn’t judge the Russians’ “drab” appearances because “he had seen much the same at Waterloo Station during the rush hour”, to elegiac regrets that the streets of Moscow are empty.īond star denies shutting down film with 'diva antics' as she cites Alec Baldwin shooting 30 January, 2023 Latest odds on the new actor replacing Daniel Craig in the 007 films 05 October, 2022 Love and Let Die by John Higgs is a striking study of the link between Bond and the Beatles 02 September, 2022 Despite his phenomenal success with Bond, Fleming’s final years were ones of declining health and depression. It is affecting, and very much in line with Fleming’s mood when he wrote his final Bond adventure – The Man with the Golden Gun, which was published in 1965 after his death the year before at the age of 56, and to which the new book is a direct sequel. ![]() James Bond has an awareness of aging in the book, of a younger generation moving up, of himself losing the sense of what he is doing. It is a joyous hat-tip to the thrillers of the earlier era, where this linguistic tic was widespread. Horowitz does brave work capturing the style of the originals – the opinionated use of brand names, the informative technical info, just enough to make you feel you now know a lot about the subject – and you suspect the author enjoyed himself hugely.įor example in the first part of the book, no character ever simply “says” anything – they explain, or mutter, or remark, or cut in. ![]()
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