Double or Die: A James Bond Adventure by Charlie Higson - Wow, 13 year-old James Bond is back in this great book that packs one heck of a punch!!!!! This adventure starts with the kidnapping of one of Professor Fairburn, who teaches at Eton, where James goes to school. The kidnappers are two cutthroat brothers; one rather normal looking guy named Wolfgang, the other Ludwig, who looks like a skeleton with rotting teeth. They are employed by a mysterious man whose identity when revealed will shock the reader. It seems that this professor and another colleague where/are working on something that could quite literally change the world overnight. After Professor Fairburn's disappearance, one of James' friends at Eton receives a letter that gives clues as to what has happened to him, what he was working on, and where he is now located. The clock is ticking and James must figure out what is going on quickly or very bad things will happen. One thing I really liked was the reappearance of Red Kelly (if you have read the first Young Bond Book Silverfin, you will be familiar with this roguish friend of James). Bond is back and better than ever!!!!!!!I hardly ever need an excuse to put something about Bond on the blog and since we just talked about "Double or Die," check out this alligator stunt from the Bond flick "Live and Let Die."
Pretty Cool, right???!!!!!!!
By: Venetia Butterfield,
on 1/4/2007
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Well folks, it's Double or Die.
At 11am yesterday Charlie Higson ripped open a heavily embargoed box of Young Bond books to reveal the title of the latest instalment. I was somewhere towards the back of a mob of several hundred eager fans and parents at Waterstone's Piccadilly shameless gnawing my fingernails in nervous anticipation of the morning's proceedings. You see, I only got back to work the day before, and so I had to scramble to make sure all was in order and set-up for the massively anticipated launch. Barring a few small kinks — I barely got a TV monitor working in time to display the cool secret cameras that were shown off by our guest partner Spy Shop Ltd and our MC had trouble saying Charlie's name correctly just about every time he had to say it (why I don't know) — the launch went off incredibly well. We are all pleased! Videos of the event can be found at Youngbond.com and Youngbonddossier.com and I threw together some of our digital picks on flickr here.
From what I gather, the books are flying off the shelves. Stores are already selling out of the limited edition wrapped series, so I would recommend you go out and grab one fast. These will be collectors' items down the road certainly. In fact on a December 06 episode of Antiques Road Show, Ian's secretary had a complete set of Ian Fleming James Bond First Editions worth somewhere around £20,000 each. At last glance, a signed copy from the event is already going for £35 on Ebay.
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