With a Mind to Kill: A James Bond Novel

by Anthony Horowitz

Overview

Internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s third James Bond novel, after Forever and a Day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780063242203
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	05/24/2022
Series:	James Bond Series
Edition description:	Large Print
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

Anthony Horowitz is one of the UK’s most prolific and successful writers, unique in being active in both adult and YA fiction, TV, theater, and journalism. Several of his previous novels were instant New York Times bestsellers. His bestselling Alex Rider series for young adults has sold more than nineteen million copies worldwide and has become a hugely successful show on Amazon Prime Video. His breakthrough Magpie Murders mystery series has been adapted into miniseries for PBS. He lives in London and was recently awarded the CBE for services to literature.

 

Editorial Reviews

"It’s almost uncanny how well Mr. Horowitz summons Bond’s mindset . . . Yet this Bond also feels the winds of change: 'He had his licence to kill. But was it possible that in this new, more questioning age, that licence might have expired?' A drop of retro pleasures, a pinch of things to come; shaken, not stirred." — Wall Street Journal

"I'll tell you who's an absolutey wonderful writer, Anthony Horowitz. So many brilliant books, lincluding his new Bond novel With A Mind to Kill. — Richard Osman

"Horowitz uses his own brand of fast-paced dialogue and gripping storytelling to revitalize the Bond franchise while working within the confines of Ian Fleming’s original world." — BookTrib

From the Publisher

2022-04-12
Horowitz completes his James Bond trilogy—begun in Trigger Mortis (2015) and Forever and a Day (2018)—by providing what would be the nonpareil British spy’s final adventure if only all those other earlier scribes hadn’t preceded him at the feast.

Brought back home in 1964 after executing Francisco Scaramanga in Jamaica in order to fake the assassination of M, his longtime superior in the Secret Intelligence Service, Bond performs so well that everyone who knows the actual position of Adm. Sir Miles Messervy—perhaps 50 people all told—is fooled into thinking that he’s dead. This fraud only lays the groundwork for Bond’s real job: to continue pretending that he remains indoctrinated by the Soviets aligned with Scaramanga in order to infiltrate the ranks of Stalnaya Ruka, a cabal of officers in the USSR who are clearly up to no good. Accordingly, he lets himself be abducted out from under the English officers who clearly hate him for killing Sir Miles, though this deception is trickier than it looks. Whisked off to Leningrad, he’s drugged and interrogated by his old nemesis Col. Boris, who’s far from convinced that Bond has set queen and country aside for the Soviet Union. The colonel assigns clinical psychiatrist Katya Leonova to stick close to Bond, becoming his friend, his confidante, and, if necessary, his lover. From this point on the plot proceeds in a much straighter line, though Horowitz can’t resist several additional twists, the most notable of them the identity of the target Bond’s new masters send him to East Berlin to eliminate.

Not nearly as ingenious as Horowitz’s meta-whodunits but well above average among post–Ian Fleming Bonds.

Kirkus Reviews