A Late-Career Addition to 007’s Saga

Since I very much enjoyed this British screenwriter-author’s first couple of Agent 007 adventures, Trigger Mortis (2015) and Forever and a Day (2018), this is terrific news to begin my Friday: “A third James Bond continuation novel by Anthony Horowitz is scheduled to be published next year ...,” managing editor Bill Koenig writes in The Spy Command. “The story picks up after the events of The Man with the Golden Gun [1965], Bond creator Ian Fleming’s final 007 novel.”

Horowitz tells The Bookseller, "I am very excited to have started my third Bond novel with the continuing support of the Ian Fleming estate. Forever and a Day looked at Bond’s first assignment. Trigger Mortis was mid-career. The new book begins with the death of Scaramanga and Bond’s return from Jamaica to confront an old enemy.”

This author’s next Bond yarn will follow the publication of A Line to Kill, Horowitz’s third Daniel Hawthorne novel. It’s set to debut in the UK this coming August, and in the States in October.

Koenig adds that “Today’s announcement comes on the 113th anniversary of the birth of Bond’s creator.”