Trigger Mortis
A James Bond Novel
by Anthony Horowitz
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Pub Date 19 May 2016 | Archive Date 19 May 2016
Orion Publishing Group | Orion
Description
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.
Advance Praise
‘Sexy, slick and full of suspense, this new Bond novel is perfect escapism.’ GRAZIA
‘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
‘Horowitz’s brings her [Pussy Galore] back as something like a
three-dimensional woman, giving her an arc that surpasses Bond’s hackneyed
Freudian masculinity… He delivers the tersely precise prose that makes Bond so
compelling, but more than that, he also supplies touches of Fleming’s cruel
poetry.’ - GUARDIAN
‘Horowitz is doing something both clever and
audacious… Setting Bond in a 1950s/1960s period, rather than making him a new
man has been done before but Horowitz is playing several games with readers…
There is a feminist slant here: this is the first book to deal with what
happens to all those Bond girls after the final clinch… a clever and enjoyable
pastiche.’ - INDEPENDENT
‘Bond’s back in the driving seat with sex and
cocktails… This is dark but stylish mid-Cold War Britain’ - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
‘The tension-filled opening sequence is there, the threat to world peace, the race to prevent central Manhattan being blown to smithereens, beautiful women and dodgy gangsters, but, somehow, Bond is more likeable. Daniel Craig would be hard pushed to describe this one as sexist and misogynistic. Mr Horowitz has introduced us to a more rounded hero, but one who won't disappoint the traditionalists.’ - COUNTRY LIFE
‘Horowitz has an amazing facility for narrating action, and the set-pieces are terrific… the final 50 pages pass in a breathless rush of excitement.’ - SUNDAY TIMES‘A humdinger of a Bond story, so cunningly crafted and thrillingly paced that 007’s creator would have been happy to have owned it… 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
‘Almost too good’ - EVENING STANDARD
‘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
‘Trigger Mortis is cool and restrained... Fleming's best work was possessed of a rather insouciant tone; a wry, weary, mid-century tone that Horowitz captures exactly.’ - NEW STATESMAN
‘The heart of any good thriller is the plot, and…Horowitz doesn’t disappoint. The action moves with high velocity…. Also stays true to the Bond of Fleming’s books.’ - NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
‘As Bond-villain plots go, this is a clever one…. There are more than enough pleasures for even the strictest Bond aficionado in Trigger Mortis… The book barely puts a foot wrong...’ - WALL STREET JOURNAL
‘Anthony Horowitz produced as good an ersatz James Bond novel as one could hope for in TRIGGER MORTIS’ - DAILY TELEGRAPH Books of the Year
'All elements are in place. We have the fast cars, the dead-eyed villain with a penchant for playing cards, a mysterious woman and an intricate plot involving rockets.' - RTE GUIDE
‘Bond and his creator have been under siege from the second-rate and politically censorious for decades. It has taken 50 years for one author, Anthony Horowitz, to finally deliver the respectful and tender homage both have long deserved. It is a cause for celebration.’ - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781409159148 |
| PRICE | £7.99 (GBP) |
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