James Bond, 007, finally comes face to face with his most cunning nemesis-the enigmatic blind criminal mastermind behind the sinister organization known only as the Union.
"Benson's 007 is a chip off the old block." (Kirkus Reviews)
"Benson imbues his Bond with enough honor, sexual prowess and action-hero skills to please the purist and enthrall the novice." (Publishers Weekly)
"A perfect read." (Chicago Tribune)
Amazon.com Review
Raymond Benson continues his string of bracing, true-to-tradition James Bond adventures with Never Dream of Dying. As in his last two outings (High Time to Kill and Doubleshot), Bond is up against the Union, a supersecret international cartel of arms dealers and assassins headed by a satisfyingly diabolical mastermind. All the ingredients are there: solo forays into enemy territory, exotic European locales, brushes with death, high-tech gadgetry, a gorgeous femme fatale, and a hair-raising conclusion featuring plenty of explosions and a deadly race against the clock. Benson, a scholar of the original Ian Fleming series who has written four other original Bond thrillers as well as the novelizations of several Bond movies, gets the tone just right. Bond fans won't be disappointed. --Nicholas H. Allison
From Publishers Weekly
Bond. James Bond. Those words still propel the reader into a dangerous, glamorous world, a world where only Agent 007 can save the day again and again and again. In this rehashing of the legend, Bond joins his aging friend Rene Mathis to observe a raid by French police on a ramshackle film studio in the Cote d'Azur owned by shady French film producer/director Leon Essinger. Tipped to the raid, the Union, a league of terrorists with laser-tattoo brands on their eyeballs, show up and wreak havoc until Bond foils them by igniting some handy petrol barrels. In the aftermath Mathis is suspended but hunts the Union on his own, following a trail of stolen super explosives to wealthy blind gambler Pierre Rodiac. He tracks Rodiac's yacht from the casinos of Monaco back to Corsica and a remote mansion fortress, and promptly disappears. Meanwhile, Bond meets and falls in love with Essinger's estranged wife, movie star/supermodel Tylyn Mignonne, as his search links Essinger to Rodiac and word of a major terrorist act in the works. His hunt for Mathis and the Union mastermind causes him to cross paths with the old Mafia Corse, Corsican witches, murderous stuntmen and a fiendish eye doctor who tortures Bond when the intrepid agent is captured. Bensen does Fleming credit; his Bond a worthy replica of the original. M (for some time now Ms. M) and Miss Moneypenny hold down the fort while Bond discards million-pound gadgets like used Kleenex to frustrate Major Boothroyd, who has replaced the inimitable Q now that the much loved actor who played Q in the Bond films has died yet another sign that the Bond book/movie business has achieved true synergy.
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