The novel opens two weeks after the action of Fleming’s Goldfinger (1959), a book which ended with Bond triumphantly overcoming the lesbian predilections of the trapeze artist-cum-cat burglar Pussy Galore. In Trigger Mortis Horowitz has had the ingenious idea of showing us Bond in the act of doing something which we know he does a lot, but Fleming would never have dreamed of writing: all the “It’s not you, it’s me” business of dumping his conquests. Fleming’s estate has made a canny choice in Horowitz, who proved in his Conan Doyle pastiche The House of Silk – which saw Sherlock Holmes battling a VIP paedophile ring – that he can convincingly replicate another author’s world without sticking too slavishly to his template. For James Bond the phrase “You Only Live Twice” has proved a serious underestimate: Anthony Horowitz is the eighth authorto have resuscitated 007 since Ian Fleming’s death.
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