To be clear, Horowitz is in no way the first author anointed by the Fleming estate to continue the adventures of James Bond in book form. These books are Trigger Mortis (2015), Forever and Day (2018), and the last of the Horowitz trio, With a Mind to Kill, which was published in May 2022. That’s right: in order to get the best book-Bond fix available right now, the curious reader may actually want to start their print 007 adventure with three wonderful books all written by Anthony Horowitz. If you’re looking for official James Bond books that are actually, legitimately great and not as problematic as their literary forebears, three much newer novels-all published between 20-are damn near perfect. To really enjoy yourself and feel good about the world at the same time, you really have to cherry-pick your vintage Bond books pretty carefully. While a case can be made for individual novels (again, Moonraker and Thunderball are great, as is On Her Majesty’s Secret Service), others, like Live and Let Die (1954) and The Spy Who Loved Me (1962), can only be read with a bag over your head. So the question is: if you’ve skipped the Bond books, should you read them? Maybe not! Although Fleming was a pioneer of espionage literature who essentially revolutionized the page-turner, it’s very hard to make a strong case that a contemporary reader (or casual Bond fan) will love reading the Fleming-Bond for one simple reason: many of the books are dated to the point of (sometimes) being offensive.
What James Bond Really Drank in the Books.
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