WITH A MIND TO KILL by Anthony Horowitz (May 2022)

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  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    Dragonpol wrote: »

    I wonder if it could lead into Colonel Sun, possibly. AH said he greatly admires the book, to the point that he wonders why EON never filmed it.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Interesting read @Dragonpol I'm looking forward to getting this book in my Hands
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    A title reveal can’t be too far away.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    MaxCasino wrote: »
    Dragonpol wrote: »

    I wonder if it could lead into Colonel Sun, possibly. AH said he greatly admires the book, to the point that he wonders why EON never filmed it.

    Yes, it could be. It would be nice to dovetail Horowitz's Bond novels with Amis's Colonel Sun. I agree with him that it's a real shame it was never filmed by Eon albeit parts of it have been used in the films, after a fashion.

    Birdleson wrote: »
    So there is no indication that this is based on any Fleming treatment, I gather.

    Not thus far, no, though an unseen Fleming character is going to be the villain. I believe that's the first time a continuation novel has used a previous Fleming villain, albeit an unseen one. It's always been an original character dreamed up by the Bond continuation author of the day. So that's an interesting twist in itself. Some are speculating that it could be Colonel Boris but I think he was only in one Bond novel (TMWTGG) and not two. I could be wrong though. Hopefully Horowitz has been able to incorporate another unused Fleming treatment into his third Bond novel as that it these novels unique selling point, complete with the Fleming treatment attached at the end in a special edition. One can but hope...
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Sounds good fun; for some reason the Book Bond page seems to have gone, but here's the release from Harper Collins:

    "Iconic spy 007 must pose as a double agent to infiltrate a secret Soviet intelligence organization planning an attack on the West—and face off against a man who could be the most diabolical enemy he’s ever encountered—in internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s third James Bond novel.

    "The Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH may be defeated, but a new organization, Stalnaya Ruska, has arisen from its ashes. Under Moscow’s direction, the group is planning a major act of terrorism which, if successful, will destabilize relations between East and West.

    "Returning from Jamaica and his encounter with Scaramanga (The Man with the Golden Gun), James Bond ponders his future. He is aware of a world that is changing all too rapidly around him. The old certainties of the early postwar years are gone. Disdain for the establishment is rising, and the intelligence services are no longer trusted. Bond is beginning to wonder if his “license to kill” is still valid.

    "But the threat to the free world remains all too real, and now 007 has a new assignment: discover what Stalnaya Ruska is planning and prevent it from happening. To succeed, Bond will have to make the Russians believe he’s a double agent and travel behind the Iron Curtain.

    "First though, he will have to convince Sonya Dragunova, the Soviet psychiatric analyst as brilliant—and as dangerous—as she is beautiful. Sonya knows more of what’s happening in Bond’s mind than he does himself. She’s also hiding secrets of her own. It’s a love affair that is also a treacherous game.

    "Sonya’s boss is a man who has previously played his part to bring Bond and the West down behind the scenes in two previous Bond novels—but who has never yet appeared, until now. A Fleming creation, the evil genius responsible for Stalnaya Ruka just may be Bond’s most dangerous enemy yet."

  • edited September 2021 Posts: 157
    mtm wrote: »
    Sounds good fun; for some reason the Book Bond page seems to have gone, but here's the release from Harper Collins:

    "Iconic spy 007 must pose as a double agent to infiltrate a secret Soviet intelligence organization planning an attack on the West—and face off against a man who could be the most diabolical enemy he’s ever encountered—in internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s third James Bond novel.

    "The Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH may be defeated, but a new organization, Stalnaya Ruska, has arisen from its ashes. Under Moscow’s direction, the group is planning a major act of terrorism which, if successful, will destabilize relations between East and West.

    "Returning from Jamaica and his encounter with Scaramanga (The Man with the Golden Gun), James Bond ponders his future. He is aware of a world that is changing all too rapidly around him. The old certainties of the early postwar years are gone. Disdain for the establishment is rising, and the intelligence services are no longer trusted. Bond is beginning to wonder if his “license to kill” is still valid.

    "But the threat to the free world remains all too real, and now 007 has a new assignment: discover what Stalnaya Ruska is planning and prevent it from happening. To succeed, Bond will have to make the Russians believe he’s a double agent and travel behind the Iron Curtain.

    "First though, he will have to convince Sonya Dragunova, the Soviet psychiatric analyst as brilliant—and as dangerous—as she is beautiful. Sonya knows more of what’s happening in Bond’s mind than he does himself. She’s also hiding secrets of her own. It’s a love affair that is also a treacherous game.

    "Sonya’s boss is a man who has previously played his part to bring Bond and the West down behind the scenes in two previous Bond novels—but who has never yet appeared, until now. A Fleming creation, the evil genius responsible for Stalnaya Ruka just may be Bond’s most dangerous enemy yet."

    So the villain is
    General Grubozaboyschikov...
    What a name, isn't it?
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    " Wow, Now there's a Mouthful " ;)
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited September 2021 Posts: 16,498
    Rossi wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    Sounds good fun; for some reason the Book Bond page seems to have gone, but here's the release from Harper Collins:

    "Iconic spy 007 must pose as a double agent to infiltrate a secret Soviet intelligence organization planning an attack on the West—and face off against a man who could be the most diabolical enemy he’s ever encountered—in internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s third James Bond novel.

    "The Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH may be defeated, but a new organization, Stalnaya Ruska, has arisen from its ashes. Under Moscow’s direction, the group is planning a major act of terrorism which, if successful, will destabilize relations between East and West.

    "Returning from Jamaica and his encounter with Scaramanga (The Man with the Golden Gun), James Bond ponders his future. He is aware of a world that is changing all too rapidly around him. The old certainties of the early postwar years are gone. Disdain for the establishment is rising, and the intelligence services are no longer trusted. Bond is beginning to wonder if his “license to kill” is still valid.

    "But the threat to the free world remains all too real, and now 007 has a new assignment: discover what Stalnaya Ruska is planning and prevent it from happening. To succeed, Bond will have to make the Russians believe he’s a double agent and travel behind the Iron Curtain.

    "First though, he will have to convince Sonya Dragunova, the Soviet psychiatric analyst as brilliant—and as dangerous—as she is beautiful. Sonya knows more of what’s happening in Bond’s mind than he does himself. She’s also hiding secrets of her own. It’s a love affair that is also a treacherous game.

    "Sonya’s boss is a man who has previously played his part to bring Bond and the West down behind the scenes in two previous Bond novels—but who has never yet appeared, until now. A Fleming creation, the evil genius responsible for Stalnaya Ruka just may be Bond’s most dangerous enemy yet."

    So the villain is
    General Grubozaboyschikov...
    What a name, isn't it?

    Is it not
    Colonel Boris
    ?
    You're probably right though, I think he got a mention in Trigger Mortis.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    Maybe it’s
    Alec Trevelyan.

    Only joking, it is apparently a foe from Bond’s past.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    Might frame it. ;) Cannot wait for his new novel.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    My Twitter pride and joy:
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    Might frame it. ;) Cannot wait for his new novel.

    Haha! Marvellous! :D

    Stop getting Bond wrong, Horowitz! ;) :P
  • Posts: 1,634
    Rossi wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    Sounds good fun; for some reason the Book Bond page seems to have gone, but here's the release from Harper Collins:

    "Iconic spy 007 must pose as a double agent to infiltrate a secret Soviet intelligence organization planning an attack on the West—and face off against a man who could be the most diabolical enemy he’s ever encountered—in internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s third James Bond novel.

    "The Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH may be defeated, but a new organization, Stalnaya Ruska, has arisen from its ashes. Under Moscow’s direction, the group is planning a major act of terrorism which, if successful, will destabilize relations between East and West.

    "Returning from Jamaica and his encounter with Scaramanga (The Man with the Golden Gun), James Bond ponders his future. He is aware of a world that is changing all too rapidly around him. The old certainties of the early postwar years are gone. Disdain for the establishment is rising, and the intelligence services are no longer trusted. Bond is beginning to wonder if his “license to kill” is still valid.

    "But the threat to the free world remains all too real, and now 007 has a new assignment: discover what Stalnaya Ruska is planning and prevent it from happening. To succeed, Bond will have to make the Russians believe he’s a double agent and travel behind the Iron Curtain.

    "First though, he will have to convince Sonya Dragunova, the Soviet psychiatric analyst as brilliant—and as dangerous—as she is beautiful. Sonya knows more of what’s happening in Bond’s mind than he does himself. She’s also hiding secrets of her own. It’s a love affair that is also a treacherous game.

    "Sonya’s boss is a man who has previously played his part to bring Bond and the West down behind the scenes in two previous Bond novels—but who has never yet appeared, until now. A Fleming creation, the evil genius responsible for Stalnaya Ruka just may be Bond’s most dangerous enemy yet."

    So the villain is
    General Grubozaboyschikov...
    What a name, isn't it?

    To make it easier, just "SIr" to his close friends (if any), family (if any) and colleagues.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Since62 wrote: »
    Rossi wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    Sounds good fun; for some reason the Book Bond page seems to have gone, but here's the release from Harper Collins:

    "Iconic spy 007 must pose as a double agent to infiltrate a secret Soviet intelligence organization planning an attack on the West—and face off against a man who could be the most diabolical enemy he’s ever encountered—in internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s third James Bond novel.

    "The Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH may be defeated, but a new organization, Stalnaya Ruska, has arisen from its ashes. Under Moscow’s direction, the group is planning a major act of terrorism which, if successful, will destabilize relations between East and West.

    "Returning from Jamaica and his encounter with Scaramanga (The Man with the Golden Gun), James Bond ponders his future. He is aware of a world that is changing all too rapidly around him. The old certainties of the early postwar years are gone. Disdain for the establishment is rising, and the intelligence services are no longer trusted. Bond is beginning to wonder if his “license to kill” is still valid.

    "But the threat to the free world remains all too real, and now 007 has a new assignment: discover what Stalnaya Ruska is planning and prevent it from happening. To succeed, Bond will have to make the Russians believe he’s a double agent and travel behind the Iron Curtain.

    "First though, he will have to convince Sonya Dragunova, the Soviet psychiatric analyst as brilliant—and as dangerous—as she is beautiful. Sonya knows more of what’s happening in Bond’s mind than he does himself. She’s also hiding secrets of her own. It’s a love affair that is also a treacherous game.

    "Sonya’s boss is a man who has previously played his part to bring Bond and the West down behind the scenes in two previous Bond novels—but who has never yet appeared, until now. A Fleming creation, the evil genius responsible for Stalnaya Ruka just may be Bond’s most dangerous enemy yet."

    So the villain is
    General Grubozaboyschikov...
    What a name, isn't it?

    To make it easier, just "SIr" to his close friends (if any), family (if any) and colleagues.
    Could go with
    GG.

    Or through encryption: Grubozaboyschikov, General = Gogal (sic), for short.

  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited September 2021 Posts: 16,498
    I thought it was indeed shortened to
    'G', in the same way Messervy was shortened to M
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    For the next James Bond novel, a continuous pattern needs to be broken. Stop using stop doing drugs or a doomsday machine as the villain’(s) scheme. Ever since Devil May Care, the villain’(s) plots have alternated between the two. DMC-Drugs. CB-Doomsday Machine. Solo-Drugs. TM-Doomsday Machine. FAAD-Drugs. It’s getting as old as Bond quitting or resigning from the average Purvis and Wade script.
  • Posts: 1,634
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    For the next James Bond novel, a continuous pattern needs to be broken. Stop using stop doing drugs or a doomsday machine as the villain’(s) scheme. Ever since Devil May Care, the villain’(s) plots have alternated between the two. DMC-Drugs. CB-Doomsday Machine. Solo-Drugs. TM-Doomsday Machine. FAAD-Drugs. It’s getting as old as Bond quitting or resigning from the average Purvis and Wade script.

    Agreed ! And let's please avoid another tedious, worn out gimmick - the one that doomed T Dalton's second film to TV-drug-cop-movie-of-the-week territory: "This time, it's Personal !" Ugh.
  • Posts: 9,849
    as cliche a title I think the novel will be titled

    Death to Spies
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    What if the villain is
    like The Rise of Skywalker, someone who we thought was dead, but they faked it, like Blofeld?
  • MaxCasino wrote: »
    What if the villain is
    like The Rise of Skywalker, someone who we thought was dead, but they faked it, like Blofeld?

    The plot description was speaking about a villain who was "behind the scenes in two previous Bond novels—but who has never yet appeared", so it can't really be someone
    who clearly appeared before and faked his death.

    Colonel Boris, foreshadowed in YLTW and introduced as nothing more but a silhouette in TMWTGG, seems the most probable option in my opinion.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    I think as Rossi wrote above, General Grubozaboyschikov (or 'G') looks favourite, but Boris is certainly a good bet. And maybe they can get some 'Boris is the new Bond villain' headlines out of it :)
  • ImpertinentGoonImpertinentGoon Everybody needs a hobby.
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    mtm wrote: »
    I think as Rossi wrote above, General Grubozaboyschikov (or 'G') looks favourite, but Boris is certainly a good bet. And maybe they can get some 'Boris is the new Bond villain' headlines out of it :)

    But G gets a whole chapter to himself at the beginning of FRWL, doesn't he. He certainly isn't someone who "has never yet appeared, until now". I would love it if it where him. Eventhough it is a bit gimmicky, I always liked the idea of the KGB or SMERSH or whomever being an evil mirror of MI6 with their own M and their own top assassin and maybe even their evil versions of Moneypenny and Q...
  • Also, did G appear in a novel other than FRWL? The plot description is speaking about a mastermind between two novels. Unless G is retconned to be also behind Bond's brainwash in TMWTGG...
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    https://squaremile.com/features/james-bond-books-anthony-horowitz/

    A long read, but enjoyable and insightful from someone who’s a true writer who understands James Bond. EON, take notes.
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    Out of the loop regarding the new novels as of late. All I want to know is wether or not Bond and Blofeld are foster brothers in the world of the novels.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    delfloria wrote: »
    Out of the loop regarding the new novels as of late. All I want to know is wether or not Bond and Blofeld are foster brothers in the world of the novels.

    No, they are not. That was Michael G. Wilson’s idea, I guess.
  • Posts: 2,599
    November 11 - Armistice Day. According to John Pearson, Bond was supposed to have been born today in 1920. That would make him 101! Happy Birthday James!
  • Posts: 1,083
    Nice one, I could do with some 007 positivity. I'm hoping Waterstones will do their usual special edition, signed with a bit of extra Fleming in the back.
  • Posts: 3,327
    mtm wrote: »

    Looking forward to this. I wonder if it will have some unused Fleming bits again like the previous 2 had.
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    Death to spies I am calling it now


    Watch as I am wrong
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