Richard's Review:
If you’d told me as a schoolboy that when I was in my 60s it’d still be thrilling to read James Bond stories – brand new ones, mind you – I’d have thought you were mad. ‘Go on then,’ I’d have said. ‘Tell us about one of these James Bond stories of the future.’
I think you’d have enjoyed that.
Anthony Horowitz’s excellent With a Mind to Kill picks up where Bond creator Ian Fleming left off: remember where that was? Yup, it was with The Man with the Golden Gun, and now we are at M’s funeral: the secret service chief was shot by… James Bond. Not when 007 was entirely in his right mind, of course. Because he’s been brainwashed by Smersh not only to carry out the hit on their dastardly behalf, but to carry their evil plans still further forward.
OR HAS HE?