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Carte Blanche

Thousands will die. It is not known where, or how, or who is behind the threat. 007 is given carte blanche to do anything necessary to protect his country, but there is no blank slate when innocent lives are at stake. The only suspects are career killers with no care for civilian victims. Bond must find out who is paying them, what they plan, and stop them. And he has five days to do it.

Solo

It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided by a beautiful accomplice and hindered by the local militia, he undergoes a scarring experience which compels him to ignore M’s orders in pursuit of his own brand of justice.

Bond’s renegade action leads him to Washington DC, where he discovers a web of geopolitical intrigue and witnesses fresh horrors. Even if Bond succeeds in exacting his revenge, a man with two faces will come to stalk his every waking moment.

Trigger Mortis

James Bond returns in this exhilarating thriller by bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.

It’s 1957 and 007 has only just survived his showdown with Auric Goldfinger at Fort Knox. By his side is Pussy Galore, who was with him at the end. Unknown to either of them, the USSR and the West are in a deadly struggle for technological superiority. And SMERSH is back.

The Soviet counter-intelligence agency plans to sabotage a Grand Prix race at the most dangerous track in Europe. But it’s Bond who finds himself in the driving seat and events take an unexpected turn when he observes a suspicious meeting between SMERSH’s driver and a sinister Korean millionaire, Jai Seong Sin.

Soon Bond is pitched into an entirely different race with implications that could change the world. Thrown together with American agent, Jeopardy Lane, Bond uncovers a plan that will bring the West to its knees in a heart-stopping climax.

Welcoming back familiar faces, including M and Miss Moneypenny, international bestselling author Anthony Horowitz ticks all the boxes: speed, danger, strong women and fiendish villains, to reinvent the golden age of Bond in this brilliantly gripping adventure. Trigger Mortis is also the first James Bond novel to feature previously unseen Ian Fleming material.

This is James Bond as Fleming imagined him.

Ian Fleming: The Complete Man

Winner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger for non-fiction and The Times, Financial Times, Economist, Spectator, Daily Express and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year.

A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond and his enduring impact, written by award-winning biographer Nicolas Shakespeare. Crafted with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers, the author uncovers new material that casts fresh light on his subject, resulting in a masterful, definitive biography.

Ian Fleming’s greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture, but Fleming’s life was more mysterious than anything he wrote.

Ian’s childhood with his gifted brother and extraordinary mother established his ambition to be ‘the complete man’. Only a writer for his last twelve years, his dramatic personal experiences and career in Naval Intelligence put him at the heart of critical moments in world history, while also providing rich inspiration for his fiction.

The Man with the Golden Typewriter

On 16 August 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, ‘My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold’. He had bought the gold-plated typewriter as a present to himself for finishing his first novel, Casino Royale. It marked in glamorous style the arrival of James Bond, agent 007, and the start of a career that saw Fleming become one of the world’s most celebrated thriller writers.

And he did write golden words. Before his death in 1964 he produced fourteen bestselling Bond books, two works of non-fiction and the children’s story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Fleming’s output was matched by an equally energetic flow of letters. He wrote constantly, to his wife, publisher, editors, fans, friends and critics, charting 007’s progress with correspondence that ranged from badgering Jonathan Cape about his quota of free copies ­– a coin was tossed; Fleming lost – to apologising for having mistaken a certain brand of perfume and for equipping Bond with the wrong kind of gun. His letters also reflect his friendships with contemporaries such as Raymond Chandler, Noël Coward and Somerset Maugham.

Before the world-famous films came the world-famous novels. This book tells the story of the man who wrote them and how he created spy fiction’s most compelling hero.

Octopussy and The Living Daylights: Illustrated Collector’s Edition

Octopussy and The Living Daylights brings James Bond’s literary journey to a close with a collection of four taut, masterful stories. In ‘Octopussy’, wartime secrets resurface with deadly consequences, while ‘The Living Daylights’ captures the nerve-shredding tension of a mission where one wrong move spells catastrophe. This final volume in The Folio Society’s acclaimed Bond series is illustrated by Fay Dalton.

Bound in blocked cloth and presented in a striking pictorial slipcase, with four exquisite colour illustrations – including a fold-out double-page spread – this is a stylish tribute to Ian Fleming’s enduring creation and a fitting conclusion to a definitive collection.

Forever and a Day

A spy is dead. A legend is born.

The sea keeps its secrets. But not this time. One body. Three bullets. 007 floats in the waters of Marseille, killed by an unknown hand. It’s time for a new agent to step up. It’s time for Bond to earn his licence to kill.

Determined to uncover the truth, James Bond enters a world of fast cars, grand casinos and luxury yachts. But beneath the glamour, he soon encounters a dangerous network of organised crime. He must unravel their devastating plan before he becomes their next victim…

This is the story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera.

With a Mind to Kill

It’s M’s funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M’s murder – James Bond. Behind the Iron Curtain, a group of former Smersh agents want to use the British spy in an operation that will change the balance of world power. Bond is smuggled into the lion’s den – but whose orders is he following, and will he obey them when the moment of truth arrives?

In a mission where treachery is all around and one false move means death, James Bond must grapple with the darkest questions about himself. But not even he knows what has happened to the man he used to be.

James Bond: The Raymond Benson Years

For the first time ever, all six of Raymond Benson’s original James Bond novels are available together in one omnibus eBook edition. These classic tales show Benson at his finest, and 007 at his most heroic.

James Bond: The Raymond Benson Years collects together Zero Minus Ten, The Facts of Death, High Time to Kill, DoubleShot, Never Dream of Dying and The Man with the Red Tattoo.

A Spy Like Me

Six days. Three agents. One chance to find James Bond.

A bomb goes off at the BBC. The country is in chaos, but this is just the start. A global terrorist organisation is plotting a series of deadly attacks. MI6 has just six days’ warning for when the next one will strike.

With James Bond missing, three of MI6’s toughest Double O agents race across the world to stop the attacks. From Venice to Australia to Dubai, they soon uncover a vast network of terror. As the Double Os close in, they find themselves unexpectedly inching closer to 007. Now the race is on to stop the terrorists – and save Britain’s finest spy.