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. He follows in the footsteps of William Boyd and Solo in 2013, the American thriller writer Jeffery Deaver, with Carte Blanche in 2011, and Sebastian Faulks, whose Devil May Care was published to mark Ian Fleming’s centenary in 2008.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. The collaboration began in 2015 with the Sunday Times bestseller Trigger Mortis, followed by Forever and a Day in 2018 – also a Sunday Times bestseller. But not even he knows what has happened to the man he used to be.Īnthony Horowitz is the only author in recent years to have been invited by Ian Fleming Publications to write successive, official James Bond novels. In a mission where treachery is all around and one false move means death, Bond must grapple with the darkest questions about himself. Bond is smuggled into the lion’s den – but whose orders is he following, and will he obey them when the moment of truth arrives?
One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M’s murder – James Bond.īehind the Iron Curtain, a group of former Smersh agents want to use the British spy in an operation that will change the balance of world power. With a Mind to Kill opens with M’s funeral. Signed copies are available to pre-order from today from high street and independent retailers. Jonathan Cape, Vintage, and Ian Fleming Publications are delighted to reveal the title and front cover of award-winning novelist and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz’s third official James Bond novel. With a Mind to Kill coming from Jonathan Cape
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