“British author Jeffrey Archer supplied recommendations for ‘The Best Heist and Con Artist Books’ novels over on Five Books named Goldfinger as the best heist novel . I find this interesting because, while the film version is wildly popular, I thought the novel was weaker. (Speaking of Jeffrey…”
“ Reading Maps visually plots the geographic travels of various novels. As you can imagine, the James Bond novels are pretty active, in terms of globe-hopping. Here’s the entry for Casino Royale (the movie). ”
“I was previously unaware of The Moneypenny Diaries which is a short book series that tells James Bond adventures from the perspective of Miss Moneypenny (did anyone know her first name is apparently ‘Jane’?). It doesn’t seem like the series got too far, but there some short stories published in…”
“ I read the James Bond novel Seafire while on a business trip. This is from 1994, which is late in the John Gardner era — he only wrote one more original Bond novel after this one. It was…okay. I’ve never loved Gardner’s work. Here’s my review . ”