A Spy Like Me by Kim Sherwood
My ranking: 4 of 5 stars
A Spy Like Me is guide two within the Double O trilogy of motion adventures set in a brand new prolonged world of James Bond.
The story opens with a bomb in London’s BBC buildings which has crew chief Ms Moneypenny and her double Os scrambling for solutions and making guesses. There’s additionally a leak in MI6 which wants plugging and no-one is aware of if lacking OO7 remains to be alive.
The story clips alongside at a quick tempo with double O spies being despatched internationally as they comply with Moneypenny’s speculation a couple of triple-headed operation to channel funds into terrorism. Die-hard followers of the unique Bond tales and movies might shake their heads; Q is now a pc, M is semi-retired, add within the point out of characters and incidents from Fleming’s tales and I can perceive that this received’t be suited to everybody.
I preferred the story for its unfastened familiarity with the Bond themes and its try to proceed the struggle towards evil within the twenty first century. The storyline was entertaining and I preferred the world-tour, particularly the scenes set in Venice. Nonetheless, because of the amount of characters and enormous variety of scene modifications it was typically exhausting to maintain all of them mounted in my thoughts. This may seemingly be a marmite guide, one both liked or hated; good in case you have loved the Bond character and situation previously, however aren’t essentially big followers, however disliked by Bond devotees.
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An elite crew of MI6 brokers should go undercover to unravel a smuggling community funding violent terror within the second thrilling journey within the acclaimed Double O sequence by Kim Sherwood.
James Bond is alive.
Or at the least, he was when he left a clue on the black web site the place the insidious non-public army firm Rattenfänger held him captive. MI6 can not spare any extra lives making an attempt to trace down one lacking agent—no exceptions, even for Bond. However Johanna Harwood, 003, has her personal agenda. Sidelined by her superiors whereas she grieves the lack of a liked one, Harwood goes on an unsanctioned mission: to seek out 007. In the meantime, MI6 has one other drawback…
A bomb has been detonated in London.
Double O brokers on the path of the terrorists accountable acted shortly to stop mass destruction and save lives. However MI6 didn’t neutralize the nation’s enemies earlier than they may strike, and considered one of their very own was critically injured within the blast.
They received’t fail once more.
Assigned to root out the supply of the terrorists’ funding, Joseph Dryden, 004, and Conrad Harthrop-Vane, 000, enter the sector. Tracing clues from Sotheby’s public sale home to Crete to Venice, they uncover a cash laundering scheme involving diamonds, black market antiquities, and human trafficking. As soon as a significant sale is made, a six-day countdown to the subsequent terror assault begins. Because the Double O’s comply with the twisting path, they discover themselves unexpectedly inching nearer to Bond…
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