The super spy is back, with a fresh injection from novelist and screenwriter extraordinaire, Anthony Horowitz. The expert in suspense takes us back to the beginning of James Bonds story the story rips along with plenty of familiar Bond staples: evil villains, fast cars and women falling for young Bonds charms. Ian Fleming would be proud. * Guardian * Daring, exciting, and also superbly plotted, it shows Bond questioning his loyalties at the end of his career. It marks a fitting end to a trilogy from Horowitz that Fleming would surely have approved of -- Jon Coates * Sunday Express * In many ways, Horowitz has now surpassed Fleming and the final book in his Bond trilogy is a masterpiece. It's a literary thriller writing at its page-turning finest.' * Daily Express * Horowitz is a worthy successor to Ian Fleming, putting 007 back in his true domain This New Bond is up there with the better Old Bonds The denouement is a very fine piece of action writing Horowitz has done splendidly. * Scotsman * Horowitz is a worthy successor to Ian Fleming, putting 007 back in his true domain This New Bond is up there with the better Old Bonds The denouement is a very fine piece of action writing Horowitz has done splendidly. * Scotsman * A novel that feels very like a film fast-paced, skilfully written leaves you wanting more, and for serious Bond junkies [ it] is the next fix in a long tale of addiction. * The Times * A novel that feels very like a film fast-paced, skilfully written leaves you wanting more, and for serious Bond junkies [ it] is the next fix in a long tale of addiction. * The Times * Even better than Trigger Mortis it is tremendous fun. Anthony Horowitz has the discipline and skill of a first-class action writer. * Sunday Express * Anthony Horowitz's second James Bond book will keep 007 obsessives happy with martinis, beautiful women and an enormously fat Corsican gangster. * The Times *Best New Novels* * Exciting high drama Horowitz stays loyal to the fabulous Fleming formula. And for that he surely deserves another mission guiding the fortunes of the worlds favourite superspy. * Daily Express *