Mark’s Comments (group member since Aug 03, 2014)

Mark’s comments from the Espionage Aficionados group.

One of the Fleming novels Goldfinger.

Jeez Gideon, the question asked for an golden oldie response to matters concerning spies in movie and television.

I did actually know what the answer was.

Gideon wrote: "What is a Spy Coin?"

He could tell you but then he would have to kill you to preserve the secrecy.

I found the Leslie Charteris, Peter Cheyney, Ian Fleming & Eric Ambler books in my dads bookcase, he has yet to get them back. With Leslie Charteris and Fleming both I bought from my allowance the missing books.

I read the Fleming novels before I discovered the movie series, continued to enjoy them both but see them as two very different entities.

More from the BBC on Fleming's story idea.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment...

"Set at the Nurburgring in Germany, Murder on Wheels would have seen 007 thwart a Russian plot to cause racing legend Stirling Moss to crash.
The treatment saw Moss appear as a character, with Bond's superior M and M's secretary Miss Moneypenny also featuring.

Horowitz, who resurrected Sherlock Holmes in his 2011 novel The House of Silk, is the latest in a series of high-profile authors to have penned new Bond novels.

Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver and William Boyd have also written "official" Bond novels, while Charlie Higson has penned a series of 'Young Bond' books about the character's teenage exploits.

While promoting his Sherlock Holmes novel The House of Silk in 2011, Horowitz suggested to the BBC News website he would be prepared to take on the task.

"I can't think of any other character in literature - except maybe James Bond - who would have tempted me," he said of Holmes, who will return later this year in his second Holmes novel, Moriarty."

Feliks wrote: "Thanks. Frankly, I've never heard of him. And also...I yearn for that movie series to die. Its beyond embarrassing now; with a blonde Bond who is a pantywaist in real life; can't swim; is afraid of..."

Daniel Craig is the best thing about the last three movies, where the last two ones were more about style than story or logic.

This is about the amount of new Bond novels written since Flemings demise before 007 really took of in cinema.

Horowitz did a great Sherlock Holmes novel House of Silk and the next one Moriarty is on the horizon.

After the celebrity triligy of Faulks, Deaver & Byd we get another great author to write a 007 novel will he fare better than the rest?

I do like the Flemings and some of the Gardners and most certainly the two novelisations of Christopher wood. Most of the other 007 offspring is entertaining but no more.

The Moneypenny Diaries are however the best post Fleming novels IMHO and are closest to Flemings hero.

Is there really still a need for a literary 007 as the movies are doing alright on their own, even if I consider them going downhill since CR?

Ian Fleming Publications Ltd. and the Ian Fleming Estate are delighted to announce that bestselling and award-winning author Anthony Horowitz has been invited to write the next James Bond novel, due for worldwide release on 8th September 2015.

Horowitz is one of the UK’s most successful authors and has over forty books to his name including his recent Sherlock Holmes novel, The House of Silk, and his enormously successful teen spy series featuring Alex Rider. As a TV screenwriter he created both Midsomer Murders and the BAFTA-winning Foyle’s War, and is looking forward to taking on his next project:

‘It’s no secret that Ian Fleming’s extraordinary character has had a profound influence on my life, so when the Estate approached me to write a new James Bond novel how could I possibly refuse? It’s a huge challenge but having original, unpublished material by Fleming has been an inspiration. This is a book I had to write.’

Set in the 1950s, Horowitz’s story will be unique among the modern James Bond novels, in that a section will contain previously unseen material written by Ian Fleming. Fleming’s great niece, Jessie Grimond explains:

‘In the 1950s Ian Fleming wrote several episode treatments for a James Bond television series. But it never came to be made and he ended up turning most of the plots into the short stories that are now in the collections For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy and The Living Daylights. However, there are a few plot outlines which he never used and which, till now, have never been published, or aired. Given that Anthony is as brilliant a screenwriter as he is a novelist, we thought it would be exciting to see what he would do with one of them.’

The treatment which will act as a starting point for Anthony Horowitz’s Bond novel is titled Murder on Wheels, and follows Bond on a mission in the world of motor racing. Set at the Nurburgring in Germany, Murder on Wheels would have seen 007 thwart a Russian plot to cause racing legend Stirling Moss to crash.

The novel will be published in the UK and Commonwealth by Orion Publishing Group and simultaneously by HarperCollins Publishers in USA & Canada.

http://www.ianfleming.com/anthony-hor...

The Butchers Theater was an insightful novel by Kellerman and looked at the the conflict of Israel with the rest of the world through the eyes of an Israeli cop. Really good book.

Black Sunday was a great thriller but a better movie with Marthe Keller & Robert Shaw.