Although I’m not fond of
continuation novels featuring the characters of authors who passed on, I’ll probably read Anthony Horowitz’s upcoming
James Bond continuation novel.
The British writer knows a
good bit about Ian Fleming and his iconic character James Bond (portrayed to perfection by actor Sean Connery in Dr No and later films).
I also like
Horowitz’s TV series Foyle’s War.
Stewart Paterson at the Daily
Mail offers a piece on Anthony Horowitz and the upcoming Bond novel.
A prequel for the first ever
James Bond novel based on material left behind by Bond creator Ian Fleming is
in the works.
Novelist Anthony Horowitz is
working on a Forever and a Day, which has been authorised by the Fleming
Estate.
The story will find Horowitz,
62, 'exploring what might have been Bond's first missions and imagining some of
the forces that might have turned him into the iconic figure that the whole
world knows'.
The novel will begin with the
discovery of the previous 007's body, which is found floating in the sea off
Marseille and 'killed by an unknown hand', according to publisher Jonathan
Cape.
Anthony Horowitz said he
'couldn't have been happier' to have been invited to write Forever and a Day
The new novel, which will be
published in May, centres on how James Bond becomes 007 following the death of
his predecessor, who is killed by an 'unknown hand'.
Horowitz writes: 'M laid down
his pipe and stared at it tetchily. "We have no choice. We're just going
to bring forward this other chap you've been preparing. But you didn't tell me
his name". "It's Bond, sir," the Chief of Staff replied.
"James Bond."'
Horowitz previous wrote the
Bond novel Trigger Mortis in 2015, using Fleming's treatment for an unmade TV
series in which the Secret Service agent becomes involved with a Formula One
race.
You can read the rest of the
piece via the below link:
Note: The top photo is of
Sean Connery as James Bond in Dr No. The middle photo is of Anthony Horowitz
and the bottom photo is of Sean Connery and Ian Fleming on the set of Dr No.
