In size alone, he dominates any place, any room. In Scipio, Horowitz has created a proper Bond villain. That comes with his first double-zero assignment: track down and eliminate Jean-Paul Scipio, head of the Corsican syndicate, major heroin supplier, and alleged killer of the previous 007. Though he has the number, he has yet to earn the unfettered license to kill along with his three-digit identity. At age 30, he earns his double-zero status with his second kill, a sloppy stabbing in Stockholm. James Bond.”īond has already proven his invincible capabilities with his first kill, a Japanese cipher man referenced in Casino Royale. Bond sees no reason to hide behind a number so uses his real name. We’ll come back the same and as strong as ever.” The first 007 used his number to cover his identity. He wants to send a message that taking out one 007 “changes nothing. He knew his forerunner and wants to keep his memory alive. Offered his own number, Bond chooses 007 for two reasons. On the recommendation of Bill Tanner of Counter Intelligence, M.
His predecessor was found floating face down in the basin of La Joliette in Marseilles in a bespoke Savile Row suit. There were three others (008, 009, 0011) before him. James Bond is not the first double-zero agent. He also justifies cold-blooded murder in the performance of duty to stop crime and save democracy. The requisite staccato sentences, the larger-than-life characters, the vivid details of geography, and the action-packed chase episodes. It illuminates how “eath was now his business.”įorever and a Day pushes all the Bond buttons. His own mystery novels include the distinctively original Magpie Murders (2017) and the recent The Word Is Murder (2018).īuilding from the Fleming franchise, Horowitz details the beginning of Bond’s signature martini recipe, the source for the gold-banded cigarettes, his love of casinos, his loathing of opera, the history of other double zeroes, and the missions to succeed at any cost. No stranger to working with legendary characters created by other writers, he wrote two Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk (2011) and Moriarity (2014). He created the Midsomer Murders series and the BAFTA-winning Foyle’s War. Horowitz comes with an acknowledged pedigree. Trigger Mortis was post- Goldfinger Forever and a Day is pre– Casino Royale, circa 1950.
This time, with the fast-paced Forever and a Day, Horowitz creates a Bond backstory. His first spinoff, Trigger Mortis (2015), took the secret agent from the race course at Nürburgring to the space race between the United States and Russia in the late 1950s. With the cooperation of the Fleming estate, British novelist and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz has written two new Bond novels. That’s the past and the future of Ian Fleming’s iconic spy with a license to kill.
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