What I really like about this series, is that although Mr Bond may be missing, we are given the rest of the 00's and what they are dealing with whilst still looking for James. The story is action packed with some familiar characters but the author has brought the idea into the 21st century. Plenty going on to keep you page turning while trying to second guess who are the good guys and who are the baddies. I think this would easily transfer over to a film if they were given the chance. Look forward to what the next book brings especially with such a climatic finish !!

Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC to review

Another fast paced and thrilling book from Kim Sherwood. Double or Nothing was a great read but A Spy Like Me is even better! With excellent characterisation and high levels of suspense this is another unputdownable book.

I was caught up in the story straightaway. I enjoyed meeting characters from the previous book but this could also be read as a standalone novel. There is plenty of intrigue and suspicion about double agents at the highest level which kept my interest throughout.

This is another superb book from a writer who has managed to build on the work of Ian Fleming whilst stamping her own style on the series.
I gasped aloud at the ending - be prepared for a thunderbolt!!

I sincerely hope that there will be more of these to come - I am eagerly awaiting the next instalment.

A pacy thriller with almost too many incidents and characters for its own good. I was just getting caught up in the plot when I came across several paragraphs of diversion into a Greek myth, presumably added in order to explain the design of a specific building. This seems to be patronising the reader; I expect that those few readers who do not already know the myth would anyway understand the connotations attached to the building’s name. It spoiled the flow of the book, interrupting a critical plot development, and is in a very different prose style from the rest, as if it had been cut and pasted into place. Otherwise, this was a quite enjoyable, exciting read.

Wow! What a fantastic, gripping read this was. Pure Bond from start to finish. I’m blown away by how good this book was!

This is the second book in the double o series, but it works well as a standalone. I don’t normally like books featuring characters that originated with a different author, but I have enjoyed this outing. It’s very much in the spirit of anything Bond like. Utterly preposterous, fast paced, action packed and filled with colourful characters straight off the film screen. There’s a slightly plausible thread to the plot, but it’s not too important as this is pure escapist fiction. Nothing too cerebral to get you wondering or worried, just a typical Bond thriller . I was looking for something light after a few more challenging books and this hit the spot. It’s well written and some excellent dialogue and overall it hangs together well. I enjoyed it.

This is a story about double O agents as James Bond 007 is missing and when the BBC is bombed they have to try and find out who is behind the bomb.
A gripping story but for me too many characters and plots which I found at times hard to follow but enjoyable if you like spy stories
Thanks to NetGalley and especially to HarperCollins for a ARC.

The second instalment in the Double-O series which creates a parallel storyline amongst the secret service team while James Bond is missing, presumed dead. The BBC is bombed and the agents work out that a terrorist group is planning a series of attacks and they need to interrupt and terminate their line of funding. All the glamorous locations and lifestyle you would expect from a Bond base tale. A more modern take on the Fleming style which is an interesting approach. A good read

I’ve been reading some really dense (in a good way) non-fiction lately so Kim Sherwood’s latest Bond story, A Spy Like Me, came at just the right time. While you couldn’t exactly describe something dealing with national security, terrorism and agents with a licence to kill as ‘light’, it is fun and exciting to escape once more into the world of Moneypenny, M, Q and the Double Os. I read the previous book, Double or Nothing, about 18 months ago so I couldn’t remember all its twists and turns but there are just enough mentions of prior events here to jog the memory or make this follow-up worthwhile reading for someone who hasn’t read it. What I do remember is some of the characters: Johanna Harwood, formerly a surgeon and now 003, is just about functioning, grieving for one man dead and another missing in action; Joe Dryden, ex-forces and with direct comms to SIS inside his head, has also lost someone.
Kim Sherwood writes with a screenwriter’s eye; if you’ve seen a Bond film you can imagine the glamorous locations, powerful people and the notion that no one is telling the whole truth about who they are and what they’re doing. With more than one Double O in play, the action is even more heightened – with one hanging on for dear life in one part of the world and another dealing with equally bad baddies in another. It’s a non-stop whirl of espionage and great fun, with a killer cliffhanger ending.

This book was a brilliant second instalment of the Double 0 series. It was action packed from the very first page to the very last page. So many twists and turns, betrayals etc it just kept me wanting to read more and more. Also, that ending! I can’t wait for the third book!

This is a great Bond alike story. It has lots of adventure, action and several twists and turns. It took me a chapter or so to get into but once I did, I flew through the book. Nothing like the 00 experience to carry you through the weekend.

When you find a new series of books and think the next one can't possibly be just as good, but it's even better.
Enjoy the company of the 00's on their new mission. But there is a traitor.
Who would possibly betray and kill their own?
Follow the international team as they try to stop the next catastrophic event and bring down the terrorists.
Enjoy I did and looking forward to the next book already

A follow on that expands the story line from the first book as 00’s try to track and trace both nefarious villains and Bond himself. Further complicated by another a traitor in their midst it’s a race against both time and an ever changing landscape. Not to sure about slipping various Bond titles into the actual narrative but guess thats like a martini - personal preference. The ending leaves you compelled to read the next book which is never a bad thing.

Superb.

This is the second 00 story by Sherwood and was immensely enjoyable, a real joy to read and difficult to put down. Themes follow on from the first double 0 novel - Double or Nothing (also by Sherwood and also brilliant) with Moneypenny, M and Q together with the other double agents & some new faces.

The other 00 agents on this story can be found at various times in the UK, France, Russia, Italy and Afghanistan & elsewhere. There are brilliant set pieces that read cinematically in crystal clear focus.

Where is 007, who knows, someone must know, read this and you may find out, or will you?

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

If you want a thriller for summer pick this, you can thank me later 5/5.

Kim Sherwood launched a new James Bond series with Double Or Nothing in 2022. The twist being that Bond is missing, perhaps killed. Into the fray step some new 00 recruits, assigned to solve the mystery and stop new threats to world security.

A Spy Like Me continues their story. It is a fast-faced, globe-trotting adventure, featuring cameos from all those you expect. Being the second in a trilogy, the stakes are higher, the characters have now has time to settle which allow us the reader to engage with them even more. Being the middle part of a trilogy it is not a spoiler to say somethings are left hanging, but those things make me very keen to see how it all resolves in the final book.

In summary, if you liked Double Or Nothing, you're in for a treat here.

This was the second '00' novel in the series and I enjoyed this one even more than the first.

With characters new, as well as some familiar faces, this story moves between a number of different locations and certainly keeps the readers turning the pages again and again

As a long time fan of James Bond, I was delighted to be invited to read this book, the second in the "00" trilogy (or will there be more?!)

I enjoyed reading this - the book features several familiar characters from the original franchise, plus some new 00 agents, and a raft of supporting characters, including at least one double agent...

Despite frequent references to the most familiar character of all - James Bond 007 - he is absent from most of the action - being presumed missing or dead since the last book! Is he alive? Well, you''ll just have to red this and find out for yourself!

In typical "Bond" fashion, the plot moves between several different exotic locations (including the Himalayas!), and there is plenty of action and suspense.

The book ends on a cliffhanger! So I can't wait to find out what happens next! Looking forward to reading more in this series, and hoping for more than a trilogy...

My thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for an ARC. All opinions my own.

Having had a spell of reading a whole stack of historical fiction, this book came as a welcome change. I've always loved the double O films but not actually read a lot of this genre. I must admit that the pictures this book conjured up were biased by my having viewed James Bond films so often. Having read this one I feel now that I must go back and read the first in the series and ....perhaps there is a third on the way?

A fabulously written gripping story that was a pleasure to read. I would absolutely recommend this book, it was brilliant

When I was a teenager I read the original Fleming books. I had grown up with the gadget laden mayhem of the films. I found the original books had a totally different style. Less gadgets, more suave sophistication. Kim Sherwood’s addition to ‘Bond and Double 0s’ is found in this latter expression of the murky world of espionage and corruption the Double 00’s work in. Here sent forth by an excellently portrayed Moneypenny, as the story is pulled from interwoven threads from around the world. James Bond plays but a minor role. A third in these books must be on the way, and a bigger part for him I think! There are

Although it’s book two, I’m still not sure how I feel about all the 00’s!
James Bond is alive, 003 goes on an unsanctioned mission to find him, a bomb has detonated in London with more attacks eminent… money laundering schemes … diamonds.,, black market antiquities…. human trafficking. It ticks all the right boxes and it's undoubtably it’s an action packed read, I do miss James and human Q though - a me issue not really a book/ author issue.