In truth, it is far superior to the last effort to breathe life into a Bond novel by Jeffrey Deaver. Bond drives a Bentley and is considering a Jensen Interceptor. However, film fans be warned: there is not a single Aston Martin.
His pursuit of those responsible takes him, via the bed of a B-movie actress, to Washington DC where he finally confronts the villains in a showdown.īoyd’s pastiche is a faithful one to Fleming’s original creation.īond is a man of great appetites: drink, women, work, more drink and fine dining, and the period is recreated in authentic detail. Sure enough we next find him recovering in a military medical unit in Scotland where M explains how Bond narrowly missed cashing in his chips without even so much as a roulette wheel on the horizon.Īggrieved, Bond ignores M’s advice to take a holiday and recuperate and instead embarks upon a solo mission, from whence the book’s title comes, to extract revenge from those who betrayed and tried to murder him. Only this being the Bond franchise, not to mention only halfway through the novel, there is no doubt our protagonist will survive. The war ends but only in part because of Bond.Īs the rats leave the sinking ship (those who can afford to buy themselves a seat on the last planes departing the doomed state), Bond is suddenly prevented from boarding the final aircraft, betrayed and then shot in seemingly life-ending circumstances. What follows sees Bond ingratiate himself with the leadership of the rebellious Fakassa tribe by demonstrating his Second World War-honed military skills.
Quite precisely why or how is never really explained by M, or Boyd for that matter. It is set in 1969 and opens with Bond celebrating his 45th birthday alone amid the splendour of the Dorchester Hotel.įrom then, Boyd takes him on a safari to the author’s old stomping ground of west Africa where Bond, posing as a journalist, is tasked with ending the civil war in Zanzarim, a former (German, then French) British colony. As a result this was billed as a return to the “classic Bond”.
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