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I cannot tell you what an unalloyed pleasure SOLO is. Reading it, I felt like hugging myself, it was that good. Boyd really gets the Fleming idiom.
This is the best Bond continuation novel since Kingsley Amis's COLONEL SUN; Sebastian Faulks, you felt, wasn't taking the enterprise seriously, while Jeffrey Deaver's CARTE BLANCHE, although as intricately plotted as any of his other books, somehow had the life sucked out of it.
My one caveat is that Bond's vocabulary is a lot bigger than Fleming wou ...more
This is the best Bond continuation novel since Kingsley Amis's COLONEL SUN; Sebastian Faulks, you felt, wasn't taking the enterprise seriously, while Jeffrey Deaver's CARTE BLANCHE, although as intricately plotted as any of his other books, somehow had the life sucked out of it.
My one caveat is that Bond's vocabulary is a lot bigger than Fleming wou ...more
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