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Anthony Horowitz
lifts lid on title of new 007 novel and announces "Pussy Galore is
back!"
Anthony Horowitz reveals today, on what would have been James Bond
creator Ian Fleming's 107th birthday, that his forthcoming official
007 adventure is to be titled TRIGGER MORTIS. In a move that will whet
the appetite of fans worldwide and is unprecedented among recent Bond
novels the contents have always been shrouded in mystery until
publication Horowitz divulges that the secret agent's new adventure
begins in 1957, two weeks after the events of Fleming's GOLDFINGER.
Horowitz places Bond in the middle of the Soviet-American Space Race
as the United States prepares for a critical rocket launch, and brings
back the most famous Bond Girl of all: Pussy Galore!
Horowitz is the latest contemporary novelist to tackle literature's
greatest action hero, and the first to place his work directly within
Fleming's original canon. As well as Pussy Galore, the book features:
brand new Bond Girl Jeopardy Lane; Jai Seung Sin, a sadistic, scheming
Korean adversary hell-bent on vengeance; and breathless,
globe-trotting adventure. Uniquely among latter-day Bond authors,
Horowitz has included original Ian Fleming material: a treatment for
Murder on Wheels, an episode of a television series that was
never made. Fleming's text sees Bond in the high-octane world of motor
racing and it is his never-used plot that kicks off the action of
TRIGGER MORTIS. |
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Anthony Horowitz
said: "It was always my intention to go back to the true Bond, which
is to say, the Bond that Fleming created and it was a fantastic bonus
having some original, unseen material from the master to launch my
story. I was so glad that I was allowed to set the book two weeks
after my favourite Bond novel, GOLDFINGER, and I'm delighted that
Pussy Galore is back! It was great fun revisiting the most famous Bond
Girl of all - although she is by no means the only dangerous lady in
TRIGGER MORTIS. I hope fans enjoy it. My aim was to make this the most
authentic James Bond novel anyone could have written."
Like previous new James Bond adventures, TRIGGER MORTIS was
commissioned and authorised by Ian Fleming Publications and the Ian
Fleming Estate. Lucy Fleming, the niece of Ian Fleming, said: "What a
brilliant birthday present for Ian Anthony has written a James Bond
book with a nail-biting adventure that could have come from Ian's own
typewriter. Anthony has cleverly incorporated Ian's original ideas in
to his own plot to produce a Bond book to remember."
Jon Wood, Orion Publisher, said: "Anthony has delivered a stunning
novel: non-stop action, a deadly, deranged opponent, and not one but
two fantastic Bond women. His genius is to brilliantly capture the
essence of a Fleming original and give it a 21st century edge. James
Bond fans, and Anthony Horowitz fans, will absolutely love TRIGGER
MORTIS."
One of the country's most successful writers, the prolific Anthony
Horowitz has over 40 books to his name. He has written two official
Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk and Moriarty,
to both critical acclaim and commercial success, and his bestselling
teen spy series, Alex Rider, has sold over 19 million copies. As a TV
screenwriter he created both Midsomer Murders and the
BAFTA-winning Foyles War. His play, Dinner with Saddam,
opens at the Menier Chocolate Factory in September.
TRIGGER MORTIS will be published on 8th September by Orion Publishing. |
