Carte blanche : the new James Bond novel
Deaver, Jeffery
Carte blanche : the new James Bond novel / Jeffery Deaver - 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed - New York : Simon & Schuster , 2011. - 414 p. ; 24 cm.
Deaver deftly sketches in Bond's background: a veteran of the Royal Naval Reserve who had served in Afghanistan, he was languishing in naval intelligence until recruited by a new, super-secret team whose mandate is to "protect the Realm. by any means necessary," hence the "carte blanche" of the title. Most of the action takes place in South Africa, and the plot is predictable in a purely Bond-ian way (credibly incredible), but also intricate and inventive, surprising and satisfying-a testament to Deaver's skill as a storyteller. The plot and setting may be up to the minute, but Bonds aficionados will be comforted by the usual Bond tropes: his love of fast cars, fine drink, and gorgeous women (two of whom sport the traditionally clever and ridiculous names: Ophelia Maidenstone and Felicity Willing); his colleagues M, Moneypenny, and Q (who creates the world's most powerful iPhone-dubbed the iQPhone); and an appropriately perverse villain, Severan Hydt, a self-made tycoon with a fetish for decay and death, complete with suitably evil henchman.
9781451620696
2011004183
Bond, James (Fictitious character)----Fiction
Dubai (United Arab Emirates)----Fiction
Spy stories
PS3554.E1755 / C37 2011
FIC DEA
Carte blanche : the new James Bond novel / Jeffery Deaver - 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed - New York : Simon & Schuster , 2011. - 414 p. ; 24 cm.
Deaver deftly sketches in Bond's background: a veteran of the Royal Naval Reserve who had served in Afghanistan, he was languishing in naval intelligence until recruited by a new, super-secret team whose mandate is to "protect the Realm. by any means necessary," hence the "carte blanche" of the title. Most of the action takes place in South Africa, and the plot is predictable in a purely Bond-ian way (credibly incredible), but also intricate and inventive, surprising and satisfying-a testament to Deaver's skill as a storyteller. The plot and setting may be up to the minute, but Bonds aficionados will be comforted by the usual Bond tropes: his love of fast cars, fine drink, and gorgeous women (two of whom sport the traditionally clever and ridiculous names: Ophelia Maidenstone and Felicity Willing); his colleagues M, Moneypenny, and Q (who creates the world's most powerful iPhone-dubbed the iQPhone); and an appropriately perverse villain, Severan Hydt, a self-made tycoon with a fetish for decay and death, complete with suitably evil henchman.
9781451620696
2011004183
Bond, James (Fictitious character)----Fiction
Dubai (United Arab Emirates)----Fiction
Spy stories
PS3554.E1755 / C37 2011
FIC DEA
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