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Trigger Mortis: A James Bond Novel Paperback – 26 July 2016

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Literary legend James Bond returns to his 1950s heyday in this exhilarating thriller by Sunday Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.

It's 1957 and James Bond (agent 007) has only just survived his showdown with Auric Goldfinger at Fort Knox. By his side is Pussy Galore, who was with him at the end. Unknown to either of them, the USSR and the West are in a deadly struggle for technological superiority. And SMERSH is back.

The Soviet counter-intelligence agency plans to sabotage a Grand Prix race at the most dangerous track in Europe. But it's Bond who finds himself in the driving seat and events take an unexpected turn when he observes a suspicious meeting between SMERSH's driver and a sinister Korean millionaire, Jai Seong Sin.

Soon Bond is pitched into an entirely different race uncovering a plan that could bring the West to its knees.

Welcoming back familiar faces, including M and Miss Moneypenny, international bestselling author Anthony Horowitz ticks all the boxes: speed, danger, strong women and fiendish villains, to reinvent the golden age of Bond in this brilliantly gripping adventure. Trigger Mortis is also the first James Bond novel to feature previously unseen Ian Fleming material.

This is James Bond as Fleming imagined him.

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ISBN-10 : 1409159140
ISBN-13 : 978-1409159148
Paperback : 320 pages
Dimensions : 14.5 x 2.5 x 19.8 cm
Publisher : Orion; 1st edition (26 July 2016)
Language: : English

Best Sellers Rank: 121,556 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A humdinger of a Bond story, so cunningly crafted and thrillingly placed that OO7's creator would have been happy to own it.... The book is the best Bond movie you'll ever see without actually having to see the movie. -- Simon Schama, FINANCIAL TIMES

TRIGGER MORTIS is a blast. Set two weeks after the end of the novel Goldfinger in 1957, it has a superb plot based around the early space race and features the return of the best Bond girl of them all, Pussy Galore., MAIL ON SUNDAY

Fleming fans certainly won't be disappointed. Trigger Mortis contains all the adrenaline you'd expect from a Bond novel with bags of humour, international jet-setting and a compelling cast of inventively named characters. It is, one suspects, a novel Fleming would be proud to have in the 007 canon., SUNDAY EXPRESS

Almost too good, EVENING STANDARD

Horowitz is doing something both clever and audacious...a clever and enjoyable pastiche, which manages to press many of the buttons that were the purview of 007's creator., INDEPENDENT

There is a delicate line separating imitation from parody and Horowitz stays on the right side of it to perfection., DAILY EXPRESS

'Sexy, slick and full of suspense, this new Bond novel is perfect escapism.', GRAZIA

Anthony Horowitz knows exactly what ingredients are required to satisfy even the most gluttonous James Bond fan and serves them up with the confidence of the self-confessed aficionado that he is... In Trigger Mortis the reader finds set pieces expertly handled and genuinely exciting... it all makes for an energetic and satisfying read., INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

'This supremely well-crafted thriller is an expertly shaken martini of authentic flavours, right down to several heart-pounding set pieces that surely belong on the big screen. Women... are in the driving seat in more senses than one, while Bond is an alluring mix of emotional detachment and death-defying heroics. Pure Pleasure.', METRO

'Ultimately, Horowitz seems to me to have captured the spirit of Fleming more successfully than his recent illustrious predecessors in the Bond-sequel game.' -- Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph

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James Bond returns in this thrilling new adventure from Anthony Horowitz - with original material by Ian Fleming.

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Trigger Mortis returns to the Golden Age of Bond

Reviewed in Australia on 1 June 2019

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Trigger Mortis returns us to 1957 and a follow up to Ian Fleming's Goldfinger. Horowitz does a pretty decent job capturing Fleming's spirit. Not the best spy novel I have read but It is still a pretty good read if you are a James Bond fan, more so of the classic era of Bond.

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Yug

Fun but silly

Reviewed in Australia on 6 October 2015

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I did manage to finish the book, but it was so over the top that in the end I found it to be rather silly. Escaping from being buried alive is just one example of the over the top nature of the book. I'm sure it will be made into a film, which will be watched by multitudes. The next Bond book needs to be toned down a bit more in keeping with the current realities.

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tony Ross-McNair

I was really quite bored. It felt like colour-the-numbers Bond

Reviewed in Australia on 28 September 2015

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It's always going to be difficult for any writer to do one of these. But, for the first time in a Bond novel, I was really quite bored. It felt like colour-the-numbers Bond. Nothing stood out for me. The scenarios weren't particularly interesting, the whole plot was difficult to care about. And even the writing was bland.

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Christopher Mead

Tidy work Mr Bond

Reviewed in Australia on 20 December 2015

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Gripping stuff, but the real joy was the period authenticity and the thoughtful details. And a particular joy: no CGI! In this novel it's all Bond, better plotted and written than a Fleming, but with all the niceties and smarts intact, and no computer cheats or action shortcuts. No trickery. No pomposity, just good old fashioned intrigue and thrills. Recommended.

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Tim

A very capable Bond

Reviewed in Australia on 30 January 2020

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A good 9 tenths of a Fleming - which is at least 20% more than anyone else has so far managed.

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Charline Myrdycz

Three Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 1 November 2015

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Did enjoy this Bond book -Anthony Horowitz carried the character forward OK

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robyn ann hill newman

A swave 007 James Bond confronts SMERSH again with some ...

Reviewed in Australia on 23 October 2015

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A swave 007 James Bond confronts SMERSH again with some familiar friends along the way. Lots of action, fast cars, attractive women and life threatening moments.

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Dunks

Brilliant.

Reviewed in Australia on 30 December 2016

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Anthony Horowitz has brought back the Bond Fleming gave us.
Brilliant.

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James Bond in a blah adventure with Doctor Meh

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 November 2018

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I like a good pastiche, so it's a shame this isn't one.
On a surface level it's not badly written. It wouldn't put me off buying more at a daily deal price. It just doesn't fire me up to race through the writer's back catalogue at top dollar.
For me the real problem, as with the Holmes pastiche, is understanding that there's a joke but not quite getting it.
The writing is about on par with the imitation of Conan Doyle in the writer's Holmes books. It's not amazing, and it's easy to find other writers who have done the same trick as well or better. It's loaded with Ian Fleming's trademark brand snobbery and the one clever trick is presenting the original writer's casual, out of date attitude to women through Bond's internal monologue.
As with the Holmes books there are a couple of modern day elements the writer can't resist folding in, that end up splitting the mixture. The more empowered female sidekick comes with the times. There's also a bolt on appearance of an arbitrary gay character that isn't much more than a fourth wall break to criticise the bad old days.
The heavy clunkers come at the end.
There's a difference between knowing about the trope of the villain's monologue, and applying it with the right light touch of nod and wink. Two chapters of reported speech info dumping his life story and plan isn't it.
There's also a valiant attempt to describing a very extended Speed style movie set piece that's a worked example of how they don't really work on the page.
I'm not saying avoid this. There's a whole nineties catalogue of far worse Bond novels. Just pitch your expectations at the right level.

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Graham Mummery

One of the bigger successes of attempts to write new Bond

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 October 2018

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I bought this book on Kindle for holiday reading. The Bond books of Ian Fleming are amongst my favourite "comfort" reading having a pace and freshness that I find less in other writers of the same genre.

The legacy of Fleming and Bond continues in the films. The fact that Fleming's heirs have commissioned a large number of books, by various writers, does attest to something that remains. There is a thirst for "things Bond," attesting to the fact that there is something mythic about the character. Of the books written by other authors, none for me quite captures exactly the flavour and style of the originals. But equally none to my mind lets it down, as is the case here.

In reading this novel there is some material from Fleming that the author, Anthony Horrowitz, has had access to, as he explains in an afterword. This turns out to be a plot Fleming made a draft of for a TV series about Bond which never surfaced. It thus is of interest in this novel to see it used. It also adds a degree of continuity between these sequels and the originals. This is also added as the author has placed the action in the nineteen fifties when the original novels were written. It also takes place soon after the events described in Fleming's Goldfinger. There are a few follow ups from that adventure, not least the appearance of the character Pussy Galore. We are offered a possible example of how Bond's relationships with women ends- a subject by and large not touched upon by Fleming.

It is here where perhaps I see the follow up working less well. Horrowitz is successful in the characters of Bond, M, the main villain and others, but less successful with Pussy. There is an attempt to make Bond's attitude to women slightly more in tune with contemporary values. But again some of this lack's Fleming's insouciance even if some nowadays find it less acceptable (and it wasn't necessarily the norm in the fifties either), and I'm not sure this is completely successful.

These quibbles may just be because Horrowitz is writing in another author's shoes. There are many successes here also. "Trigger Mortis" is a pacy read with a convincing villain and plenty of the fast paced action of the originals, and a convincing plot in Bondian terms (though it does have some echoes of the villain's plans in "Moonraker" and "Dr No"). This is one of the bigger successes of attempts to write new Bond. Bond lovers will surely enjoy this.

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John

Post Goldfinger hangover cure

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 May 2018

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An interesting addition to the Bond universe that is set between two of the original books. Horowitz's writing is pretty solid, and his attempt to follow Fleming's style is not too bad, if not quite the real thing. Using some of the original Fleming material doubtless helped stylistically, but it seems a tiny bit too forced.
Coming hot on the heals of Goldfinger, Bond is living with Pussy Galore in London, working 9-5 (or thereabouts). However, he is soon thrust into a new case involving SMERSH, and it involves car racing. Having learned to drive an F1 car in a staggeringly short time, Bond heads of to race a Russian agent and foil another poorly conceived plot for world domination.
Not a terrible book, but not up their with the real Bond classics

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spaceodds

First, Holmes and now 007. Horowitz scores again

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 September 2015

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After the dissappointing Devil May Care, and the flawed but brave and worthwhile effort of Solo, Bond is back, and this time he is on a mission that is written with such thrills and a pace that zooms through like the Mazaratti Bond drives.

When I heard that Horowitz was the next in line to write another Bond pastiche, I could not have been more happier. If he could give a well written dark adventure for Holmes in The House of Silk, what could he do for 007? Well not only has he given 007 a rip roaring adventure yarn, but he has given him the cynicism that Fleming so lovingly wrote. Unlike Faulks, and Boyd, who set their novels post Man With The Golden Gun, Horowitz's novel takes place straight after Goldfinger and is squarely set during the litereal Bond's heyday of the mid to late 1950s. The energy that Bond displays is perfectly balanced between his edge and his self-doubt and gives a glimpse to a fracturing psyche that will take its toll twelve years later in Boyd's Solo.

Overall Trigger Mortis is a great Fleming pastiche that would've made the great man so proud that he would have never think of killing him off.

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Gary M. Dobbs

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 November 2015

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As far as James Bond continuation novels go this is one of the most faithful in both characterisation of Bond and that flow which Kingsley Amis termed, The Fleming Sweep - Author Anthony Horowitz was aided in his task of bringing James Bond back by Ian Fleming himself - Horowitz explains in his afterword that prior to writing the novel he was given access to many of Ian Fleming's papers. Amongst these papers were several outlines, written by Fleming, for episodes of a proposed 007 TV series. One of these outlines saw Bond placed in the extremely dangerous world of Grand Prix.

'I was quite surprised that although Bond had memorably played bridge in Moonraker, golf in Goldfinger and baccarat in Casino Royale, he had never, in any of the novels, taken part in the much more lethal world of Grand Prix. Better still - and this was really exciting for me - Fleming's outline contained a scene with Bond meeting Bill Tanner and M at the Secret Service HQ.' Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz was able to use parts of the scene in the second chapter of his novel, which means of course that a small part of this new Bond was written by Fleming himself. Horowitz of course has already taken on iconic characters such as Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty to great success, and now he tackles James Bond. Of course it could be argued that his Alex Ryder series is basically teenage James Bond but that's an argument for another time.

In Trigger Mortis (dreadful title, that) we find Bond still shacked up with Pussy Galore following the events told in Fleming's Goldfinger. Indeed this new novel is set just two weeks after Goldinger's plans to rob Fort Knox of all that lovely gold.

The Bond of this latest book is classic Bond - chauvinistic, heavy smoking, hard drinking. Horowitz certainly has a good grip on the character and the book carefully follows the blueprint set out over several Bond novels by Fleming himself- we even get the classic style, though ridiculous , scene where the bad guy, this time a Korean named Sin Jai-Seong but known by his Americanised name of Jason Sin tells Bond what he intends to do, the full details of his diabolical plan are laid out to a seemingly doomed 007. Big mistake there Mr Megalomaniac because we know that Bond is going to somehow escape from this latest brush with almost certain death and be able to thwart your dastardly schemes.

'I wonder? Am I acting out of vanity. Am I, perhaps a little too pleased with myself? I do not know - but I suppose I must be as there can be no other reason to explain everything to you. Even so I must be brief.'

Pussy Galore though only plays a small part in this book and the main Bond girl is an American secret service agent with the wonderfully Flemingish name of Jeopardy Lane. But Pussy Galore does have a satisfying arc - in Goldfinger she was a lesbian who was turned by Bond, (never having met a real man, you see) but in this book she finds that her attachment to Bond is only fleeting and she soon leaves him, going off with another woman.

An excellent Bond novel then that feels a lot like Fleming. In fact the only thing I didn't like is the title, Trigger Mortis (which refers to the fail safe device on a USA Vanguard rocket). It's just my opinion but I think Mr Sin would have been a far more Bondian title. I asked Anthony Horowitz about this and he did consider titling the book, Mr Sin, but in the end he went with the actual title. He didn't say why - perhaps Mr Sin would sound too similar to Colonel Sun.

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