Double or Nothing: An explosive new 2022 spy thriller novel, blowing the world of James Bond wide open! (Latest official 007)

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La trama principal es muy atractiva, el mundo está en peligro, y algunas secundarias también muy interesantes. Double or Nothing is simply a refreshing read which satisfies the craving for more adventures from this world, while spinning everything up just enough to make it fun and novel again.

This continuation novel shows there is life left in MI6 after Brexit a subject suspiciously avoided in this novel. Ian Fleming mentioned plenty of brand names in his novels, but Sherwood seems to have an odd obsession with wristwatches. And so part of the initial fun of Double or Nothing is seeing where all these new pieces fit on the old game board.with sherwood's double or nothing, this is the first book in a trilogy series spin off from the originals by Ian Fleming featured brand new characters while still in the James Bond 007 universe. We discover 3 new agents: 003, 004 and 009 in conflict with a multi-billionaire who claims to be fighting against climate change but whose plan is much more evil. Indeed there are a lot of characters crammed into this, and it is difficult to care or remember who's who. Sherwood has a Bond connection: she is the granddaughter of the actor George Baker who made a number of appearances in the James Bond films.

Those interweaving narratives are not always as gripping as each other and parts of the conclusion feel hurried. With the famous 007 missing, and plenty of other 00s on the scene - 003, 004, 008, 009 - the amount of characters were hard to keep up with. Tech billionaire Sir Bertram Paradise claims he has developed new cutting-edge technology capable of reversing climate change and saving the planet. This review at The James Bond Dossier gives some background as to why the Ian Fleming estate is looking to diversify its character base, given that the original novels are soon falling into the public domain in every copyright zone, i. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password.The Fleming Estate chose to hand the honour of writing this expansion to Kim Sherwood, with only one novel to her name, and a self-confessed 'feminist and Bond fan. Anyway if you are a pure Bond fan give this a miss, it has action at the begining and end but just rambles on for the main part, with the author filling space with totally uninteresting info about nothing really. Baker most famously playing Sir Hilary Bray in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), appeared as a NASA engineer in You Only Live Twice (1967) and he appeared in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). So we are introduced to another 4 MI6 agents from the "00" team, odd that no 00 seems to go beyond the number 10? Supremely skilled, ruthless, with a license to kill, they will do anything to protect their country.

And they’re all living under the shadow of the day 003 limped back from a mission minus their friend and mentor, the Double O section’s most famous asset, James Bond, the legendary 007. Based on the 422 pages, we're looking at either 1,200 pages to find him or perhaps approximately 800 to find him and another 400 of vengeance with Bond and the team? I can’t help thinking about the film franchise and how there’s constant speculation about who should play Bond next – should they be a POC, should they be female etc. After an interesting start the reader gets bogged down with far too many characters to keep track of.De spanning bestaat uit martelscenes die bij de echte Bond verhalen impliciet waren en hier expliciet getekend worden. It therefore comes across to me as a kind of 'pilot' episode to introduce other '00's' for other future books. I suspect that the next one will be even better now that characters are established and, no real spoiler, Bond is still missing. I didn't know Bond would not turn up and waited patiently page after page, but there are just uninteresting 00s in this book. There are also appropriately grandiose villains lairs that will lend themselves well to any eventual films.

I suppose there time had to come when the 00s had to face the climate change gang, and get woke with the diversity of the characters in the 00s. The occasional tidbits about 007 are fun and are not as overwhelming as the last Brosnan movie vehicle who nearly clubbed you to death with its celebration of 007. After all, no Bond book – original or spin off – would be complete without an absurdly rich, morally challenged, over-the-top antagonist, with a strange taste in household pets.The villain is more recognisable: a Moore-era megalomaniac for the era of climate crisis and disaster capitalism. Self-reflexivity is almost the default for James Bond these days (and he was always a reflective sort – a poet even, as someone here notes), but Sherwood utilises those concerns about the character (his bravado, his loneliness, his position as a champion of a lost empire) in the construction of a real mystery around his disappearance. This is an interesting novel with the whole woke universe as a 00, a woman, a deaf man and a Muslim. The action scenes were really well done, especially the car chases, and I ended up heavily invested in the plot and the characters (particularly the one who shares my surname). Now Ian Fleming Publications Ltd has licensed a series of three books expanding the canon universe of Bond and the Double O section of MI6 and Kim Sherwood has taken on the tasking of brining these operatives to life.