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Following a treacherous rescue mission high in the freezing Alps, James Bond is preparing for life back at Eton. But James is under surveillance; his every move is being watched. He alone holds the clue to a sinister plot that will bring bloodshed and carnage to his school – and his country. Forced to flee from Eton to Austria, James must leave behind everything he knows, with only a beautiful – and dangerous – girl by his side. Soon he is trapped in a deadly war of secrets and lies, as a nightmare reunion with a bitter enemy plunges him once more into the face of death. Life for James Bond will never be the same again.

Reviews:

This is a really excellent novel. Not only is the action superb, but the whole ‘coming of age’ angle that Higson creates is so touching. As an adult there was hardly a moment I felt I was reading a children’s book. The emotional element, the sense of loss not just of youth but of family and friends old and new, was genuinely moving. And it’s not often that when someone says it was a book you just couldn’t put down they are telling the literal truth. But I read this over a twenty-four period, and it was only having to work and other distractions that made me have to put it down. Higson also rounds off his series perfectly through nods at previous characters and events from his previous Bond novels, and the fact that Bond is now on the verge of manhood, no longer to remain a school boy at Eton. Yet as Bond leaves Eton, it is Eton which is the backbone of the story and, for me, the strongest Flemingesque element to all his books. Eton grounds the story with a sense of time and place and sheer reality, making excursions into Austria and wild train journeys across France all the more memorable. Well worth a read by all ages, and SO much superior in style and pure narrative drive to anything Sebastian Faulkes could drum up in The Devil May Care. Well done, Charlie. I’m going to miss young Bond. Guess I’ll have to move on to re-read all my Fleming novels again.

• ‘Charlie Higson’s Young Bond books get an A*’ – GQ

• ‘Would have made Ian Fleming proud’ – Daily Telegraph

• ‘More action, more demented crime and more flesh-crawling deaths than ever before’ – Observe

The Author: Several authors were approached by Ian Fleming Publications to write the Young Bond series. They were gathered in a secret mountain hideaway and sat around a huge marble-topped table. Charlie Higson pulled a lever and the other authors disappeared into a shark-infested tank. So Charlie got the job and the Young Bond series is a phenomenal No. 1 bestselling success. Charlie Higson is also a well-known writer of screenplays and novels, as well as a performer and co-creator of The Fast Show.