Raymond Benson Books In Order

Black Stiletto Books In Publication Order

  1. The Black Stiletto: The First Diary (2011)
  2. Black & White (2012)
  3. Stars & Stripes (2013)
  4. Secrets & Lies (2014)
  5. Endings & Beginnings (2014)

Gabriel Hunt Books In Publication Order

  1. Hunt Through Napoleon’s Web (2010)

Hitman Books In Publication Order

  1. Enemy Within (By:William C. Dietz) (2007)
  2. Damnation (2012)

James Bond Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The James Bond Dossier (By:Kingsley Amis) (1965)
  2. The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984)

Metal Gear Solid Books In Publication Order

  1. Metal Gear Solid (2008)
  2. Sons of Liberty (2011)
  3. Metal Gear Solid 2 (2011)

Spike Berenger Books In Publication Order

  1. A Hard Day’s Death (2008)
  2. Dark Side of the Morgue (2009)
  3. On the Threshold of a Death (2009)

Tom Clancy’s EndWar Books In Publication Order

  1. EndWar (As:David Michaels) (2008)
  2. The Hunted (As:David Michaels) (2011)
  3. The Missing (By:Peter Telep) (2013)

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Books In Publication Order

  1. Ghost Recon (As:David Michaels) (2008)
  2. Combat Ops (As:David Michaels) (2011)
  3. Choke Point (By:Peter Telep) (2012)
  4. Dark Waters (By:Richard Dansky) (2017)

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Books In Publication Order

  1. Splinter Cell (As:David Michaels) (2004)
  2. Operation Barracuda (As:David Michaels) (2005)
  3. Checkmate (As:David Michaels) (2006)
  4. Fallout (As:David Michaels) (2007)
  5. Conviction (As:David Michaels) (2009)
  6. Endgame (As:David Michaels) (2009)
  7. Aftermath (By:Peter Telep) (2013)
  8. Firewall (By:James Swallow) (2022)

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Books In Publication Order

  1. Splinter Cell (2004)
  2. Operation Barracuda (2005)
  3. Checkmate (2006)
  4. Fallout (2007)
  5. Endgame (2009)
  6. Conviction (2009)
  7. Blacklist Aftermath (2013)

James Bond (Extended) Books In Publication Order

  1. Colonel Sun (By:Kingsley Amis) (1968)
  2. License Renewed (By:John Gardner) (1981)
  3. For Special Services (By:John Gardner) (1982)
  4. Icebreaker (By:John Gardner) (1983)
  5. Role of Honor (By:John Gardner) (1984)
  6. Nobody Lives Forever (By:John Gardner) (1986)
  7. No Deals, Mr. Bond (By:John Gardner) (1987)
  8. Scorpius (By:John Gardner) (1988)
  9. Licence to Kill (By:John Gardner) (1989)
  10. Win, Lose or Die (By:John Gardner) (1989)
  11. Brokenclaw (By:John Gardner) (1990)
  12. The Man from Barbarossa (By:John Gardner) (1991)
  13. Death Is Forever (By:John Gardner) (1992)
  14. Never Send Flowers (By:John Gardner) (1993)
  15. SeaFire (By:John Gardner) (1994)
  16. GoldenEye (By:John Gardner) (1995)
  17. Cold Fall (By:John Gardner) (1996)
  18. Zero Minus Ten (1997)
  19. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
  20. The Facts of Death (1998)
  21. The World is Not Enough (1999)
  22. High Time to Kill (1999)
  23. Doubleshot (2000)
  24. Never Dream of Dying (2001)
  25. The Man With the Red Tattoo (2002)
  26. Die Another Day (2002)
  27. Devil May Care (By:Sebastian Faulks) (2008)
  28. Carte Blanche (By:Jeffery Deaver) (2011)
  29. Solo (By:William Boyd) (2013)
  30. Trigger Mortis (By:Anthony Horowitz) (2015)
  31. Forever and a Day (By:Anthony Horowitz) (2018)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Evil Hours (2001)
  2. Face Blind (2003)
  3. Sweetie’s Diamonds (2006)
  4. H.A.W.X. (2009)
  5. Torment (2010)
  6. The Plagiarist (2010)
  7. Homefront: The Voice of Freedom (With: John Milius) (2011)
  8. Artifact of Evil (2011)
  9. Dying Light: Nightmare Row (2015)
  10. The Secrets on Chicory Lane (2017)
  11. In the Hush of the Night (2018)
  12. Blues in the Dark (2019)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. 12 + 1 (2015)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Thumbs Down (2010)
  2. The MacGuffin (2017)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Jethro Tull (2002)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold (2014)
  2. Corruption at the Crossroad (2017)

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Raymond Benson Books Overview

Black & White

It’s 1959, and Judy Cooper, the Black Stiletto, sets out to confront a dangerous gangster known as the hero*in king of Harlem when the teenage daughter of her beloved martial arts instructor ends up a prisoner in an uptown narcotics den. The Stiletto has troubles of her own a shady filmmaker is threatening to reveal her identity to the world a close friend of her landlord and substitute father may be in cahoots with the Harlem criminals she’s fighting for racial equality and she has fallen in love again. this time with an FBI agent who has standing orders to arrest her. Meanwhile the Stiletto’s son faces his own blackmail crisis when he finds out that there is a second copy of an 8mm film he found in his mother’s strongbox showing the Black Stiletto unmasked in a film studio dressing room. As he tries to stop the filmmaker’s son’s extortion plot, he learns that his daughter, Gina, has been brutally assaulted in New York City. The past and the present meet.

Enemy Within (By:William C. Dietz)

The clone assassin has been played long enough now it’s more than a game. Bred to kill, Agent 47 is The Agency s most valuable assassin. So when a competing murder for hire organization decides to destroy The Agency, the first person they target for elimination is Agent 47. Tasking someone to off the best hitman in the business is one thing; getting the job done is another. When the attempt falls short, Agent 47 is ordered to track down and kill the culprit who is feeding vital information about The Agency to its enemies. Agent 47 must follow a bloody trail halfway around the world, fight his way through the streets of Fez, Morocco, and battle slavers deep inside Chad. Then he will discover a shattering truth: If he fails at his mission, the price he ll pay will be far greater than his own life…
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The James Bond Bedside Companion

An encyclopedic celebration of 007, the world’s most popular secret agent, The James Bond Bedside Companion is the most comprehensive single volume guide to the James Bond phenomenon available. In addition to an intimate portrait of Ian Fleming as remembered by his friends and colleagues and a detailed analysis of every one of Fleming’s James Bond titles, this indispensable collection includes: An in depth character study of James Bond, including a sketch of his background and early life, detailed descriptions of his trademarked clothing and other personal habits, including his preferences in food and drink, and a portrait of his famous or infamous attitudes toward women and marriage; Information about the many by products of Bondmania and the merchandising of 007, such as Bond’s line of toiletries, board games, trading cards, Oddjob Action Dolls, and t shirts; Contact information for the many James Bond fan clubs around the world; A critical look at the 007 film series that includes a cornucopia of trivia and essential information on the films’ producers, screenplays, directors, actors, soundtracks and special effects; Over 100 seldom seen photographs; And enough facts, figures, and miscellanea to satisfy even the most ardent fan. Out of print for over a decade, this collector’s item is a PublishingOnline exclusive.

Metal Gear Solid

This explosive Metal Gear Solid novel ventures beyond the thrilling videogame and delves into the dark heart of Solid Snake’s world!Highly skilled former FOXHOUND agent Solid Snake is called out of retirement to do what he does best neutralize a crisis of epic proportions. A deadly team of renegade FOXHOUND operatives has taken over the nuclear disposal facility on Shadow Moses Island in the icy Aleutians. If their demands aren t met, a powerful, top secret weapon will be unleashed upon the world. Solid Snake s mission is to breach the heavily fortified base to rescue hostages and to destroy the superweapon. His only obstacles are brainwashed commandos, DNA enhanced troops, and six first rate killers with extraordinary abilities. All alone in hostile territory, armed with nothing but his wits, Snake has only a snowball s chance in hell of taking out his target and keeping nuclear nightfall from descending on the earth. But nothing is as it seems. Somebody is hiding something. Somebody has a hidden agenda. And somebody wants Snake to learn secrets about his dark past secrets that would shake any man to his core.

Sons of Liberty

METAL GEAR SOLID: THE BEAST IS BACK. WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?In a torrential downpour, former FOXHOUND agent Solid Snake stands on the George Washington Bridge ready to launch himself onto the deck of the U.S.S. Discovery as it pas*ses below. Inside Discovery is a new generation of Metal Gear. But in the next hour, Snake’s world explodes. Two years later, a young, unproven agent code named Raiden must penetrate the mystery of what went so insanely wrong that night. In a labyrinthine superstructure in New York Harbor known as the Big Shell, enemies, allies, secret agents, and double dealers converge: Russian commandos, a cyber Vamp, a long legged, leather clad, rifle bearing beauty named Fortune, a deformed, finely manicured bomber called Fatman, and a mysterious Mister X. Somewhere in the maze, as well, is the president himself his biometrics coded to a bomb that can take out Manhattan, his loyalties unknown. Now the rookie Raiden is fighting his way to one discovery after another, including the rebirth of Solid Snake himself and a nightmare organization with a history, a plan, and a terrifying superweapon hidden in plain sight.

Metal Gear Solid 2

This explosive Metal Gear Solid novel ventures beyond the thrilling videogame and delves into the dark heart of Solid Snake’s world!Highly skilled former FOXHOUND agent Solid Snake is called out of retirement to do what he does best neutralize a crisis of epic proportions. A deadly team of renegade FOXHOUND operatives has taken over the nuclear disposal facility on Shadow Moses Island in the icy Aleutians. If their demands aren t met, a powerful, top secret weapon will be unleashed upon the world. Solid Snake s mission is to breach the heavily fortified base to rescue hostages and to destroy the superweapon. His only obstacles are brainwashed commandos, DNA enhanced troops, and six first rate killers with extraordinary abilities. All alone in hostile territory, armed with nothing but his wits, Snake has only a snowball s chance in hell of taking out his target and keeping nuclear nightfall from descending on the earth. But nothing is as it seems. Somebody is hiding something. Somebody has a hidden agenda. And somebody wants Snake to learn secrets about his dark past secrets that would shake any man to his core.

A Hard Day’s Death

A frantic dash through the world of rock and roll. Thrillsa plenty and backstage pas*ses to the magical mystery musicaltwilight zone. Ian Anderson of JETHRO TULL A sizzling story full of classic thriller twists, humor, and adead on look at the music business. Jeffery Deaver, author of THE SLEEPING DOLLFrom Raymond Benson, author of sixteen novels, includingsix James Bond 007 novels, comes this original mystery/thrillerset in the world of rock n roll. Rock star Peter Flame is found dead. It looked like he hangedhimself, but the coroner ruled it a homicide. Now it’s up to SpikeBerenger and Rockin Security to find out who killed Flame andwhy. Was it his ex wife? A former bandmate? A religious cultthat had become Flame s groupies? A member of one of themysterious rock n roll gangs terrorizing New York? Only a musicinsider like Spike can hope to wade through the rumors and thelegends and find the cold hard facts and a cold blooded killer.

Dark Side of the Morgue

Shamus Award Nominee for Best Paperback Original P.I. Novel of 2009 by the Private Eye Writers of America!’Benson is a top class thriller craftsman who knows showbiz and music like the back of his hand. An unbeatable combination.’ Lee Child Spike Berenger is so real that I even tried looking him up in myaddress book in order to give him a call! Best rock read you will ever find! Rick Wakeman of YESFrom Raymond Benson, author of sixteen novels, includingsix James Bond 007 novels, comes this second original mystery/thrillerset in the world of rock n roll. Spike Berenger is back in another Rock n Roll Hit by award winning, internationally best selling author Raymond Benson!Musicians in progressive rock bands in Chicago are being murdered one by one. The local police have no clues, but several of the musicians who fear they re next on the hit list claim that the killer is a ghost from the past a woman who was reported missing and presumed dead for over thirty years! The Rockin Security team is called into action. Spike and his partner, Suzanne, travel to Chicago to investigate the case, only to find that no one wants to talk. As Spikedigs deeper, he begins to unearth a lode of deadly secrets involving sex, psychedelic drugs, and, of course, rock n roll. And it isn t longbefore the private detective becomes a pawn in a very dangerous game. A terrific page turner by one of the best thriller writers in the business! David Morrell, author of FIRST BLOOD

EndWar (As:David Michaels)

A new phenomenon begins. Created by 1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy Based on the bestselling video game, this new series will take readers onto the battlefields of World War III with the technical savvy and explosive action that Clancy fans have come to expect.

The Hunted (As:David Michaels)

She’s known as the Snow Maiden an operative of a secret group dedicated to world domination. To get their hands on her, U.S. Special Forces Captain Alexander Brent and his team will have to outmaneuver a terrorist faction bent on wiping her off the face of the earth.

Ghost Recon (As:David Michaels)

The U.S. Army’s Special Forces are known for their highly specialized training and courage behind enemy lines. But there s a group that s even more stealthy and deadly. It s comprised of the most feared operators on the face of the earth the soldiers of Ghost Recon.

Combat Ops (As:David Michaels)

Based on Ubisoftr’s bestselling game Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recontm: Retribution The first Ghost Recon book charged on to the New York Times bestseller list and now Captain Scott Mitchell and his Ghost Recon team are poised to strike again…

Splinter Cell (As:David Michaels)

It’s not just a game anymore read the explosive new book series based on the video game Splinter Celltm.

In response to the growing use of sophisticated digital encryption to conceal potential threats to the United States, the National Security Agency has ushered forth the new dawn of intelligence gathering techniques. The top secret initiative is dubbed Third Echelon.

Its existence denied by the US government, Third Echelon deploys a lone field operative. He is sharp, invisible, and deadly. He has the right to spy, steal, destroy, and assassinate to protect American freedoms. His name is Sam Fisher. He is a Splinter Celltm. Sam Fisher works alone. But fights for us all.

Operation Barracuda (As:David Michaels)

As part of a top secret initiative called Third Echelon, National Security Agency special operative Sam Fisher has been given license to spy, steal, destroy, and assassinate to protect America. And he does…

Checkmate (As:David Michaels)

All in a day’s work for a Splinter Cell He is Sam Fisher: Third Echelon special operative. And when a cargo freighter loaded down with radioactive material is headed towards the coast of the United States, he has minutes to disable the ship or die trying.

Fallout (As:David Michaels)

A radical Islamic leader who dreams of the past will do anything in his power to ensure that the future is destroyed by hitting the technological world where it hurts: oil.

Conviction (As:David Michaels)

Several disastrous missions have depleted the ranks of the Splinter Cells. Third Echelon is training new recruits when a stunning piece of evidence is uncovered. Evidence that points to the mole who sold out his government…
Sam Fisher, Splinter Cellr operative.

Endgame (As:David Michaels)

Third Echlon operative Same Fisher knows that several disastrous missions have depleted the ranks of the Splinter Cells. What he doesn’t know is that a stunning piece of evidence has been uncovered that points to the mole who sold out his government…

Colonel Sun (By:Kingsley Amis)

The legend continues! Stand by for more adventures with the world’s greatest secret agent, as some of his most thrilling missions are collected for the first time ever! When James Bond’s boss, the enigmatic M, is kidnapped in Greece, Bond must race to his rescue with only some local fishermen to help! But, 007 uncovers a plan to sabotage a USSR summit…
and the evil Colonel Sun is planning to frame the British Secret Service for the crime! This new, never before collected edition, featuring Kingsley Amis’ only James Bond story, also collects ‘The Golden Ghost’! It also includes a new introduction and exclusive features examining the post Fleming comics, and Kingsley Amis’ Bond work!

Icebreaker (By:John Gardner)

Bond reluctantly finds himself recruited into a dangerous mission involving an equally dangerous and treacherous alliance of agents from the CIA, the KGB and Israel’s Mossad. The team dubbed ‘Icebreaker’ waste no time double crossing each other, as they try to root out the leader of the murderous National Socialist Action Army, Count Konrad von Gloda, a one time SS officer, who now perceives himself as the New Adolf Hitler.

Licence to Kill (By:John Gardner)

A sequel to ‘Licence Renewed’ the first in a series of updated James Bond book’s, this novel which has been filmed, features Bond on a path of revenge heedless of the orders of the Secret Service. It is written by the same author as ‘The Garden of Weapons’ and ‘The Nostradamus’.

The Man from Barbarossa (By:John Gardner)

A deadly case of mistaken identities places 007 in direct conflict with a new breed of international terrorist in this Bond thriller.

Death Is Forever (By:John Gardner)

When several CIA and SOS agents meet mysterious deaths soon after the unification of the two Germanys, James Bond must race across Europe in a desperate attempt to save the remaining agents stationed there.

SeaFire (By:John Gardner)

James Bond and his gorgeous partner, Freddie von Gru+a5sse, investigate the disappearance of self-made billionaire Sir Maxwell Lustig and become caught up in a deadly international arms trade and an ecological disaster that threatens the entire globe.

GoldenEye (By:John Gardner)

Janis, a powerful and ambitious Russian gang that no longer cares about ideology, has just acquired Goldeneye, a piece of high tech space technology with the power to destroy or corrupt the West’s financial markets. But Janus has underestimated its most determined enemy James Bond. Based on the original screenplay of the new James Bond film starring Pierce Brosnan.

Cold Fall (By:John Gardner)

A new novel featuring James Bond whose investigation into the blowing up of an airline is also a personal one as a close friend was on board. The investigation soon brings him face to face with an organisation more deadly than any terrorist army. From the author of GOLDENEYE, SEAFIRE, NEVER SEND FLOWERS and DEATH IS FOREVER.

Zero Minus Ten

The clock is ticking for Hong Kong. The British Crown Colony will soon be handed over to the People’s Republic of China. But hopes for a peaceful transition are shattered when a series of terrorist acts threaten the fragile relationship between Britain and China. James Bond is dispatched to Hong Kong to investigate the nefarious Chinese underworld Triad, but the truth he finds is buried even deeper. Now Bond has only ten days to unravel a fiendish plot of revenge with roots that reach back more than a century and a half.

Tomorrow Never Dies

Bond is back again on the big screen in a brilliant new adventure starring Pierce Brosnan. The cars are fast, the women seductive and Bond’s enemy is the most dangerous he has ever encountered. From the snowy Khyber Pass to the sultry South China Sea, ‘Tomorrow Never Dies‘ is a breathtaking all action story that pits Bond and Britain against a power mad global media mogul who is determined to destroy the world’s peace. Only 007 can prevent the outbreak of World War III if he can stay alive long enough.

The Facts of Death

Benson’s 007 is a chip off the old block, said Kirkus Reviews of the classic secret agent depicted in Zero Minus Ten, Raymond Benson’s first James Bond novel. Fast paced, fun summer reading, wrote The Boston Sunday Herald. Bond is still as irresistible as ever. Now Benson takes Bond to the heart of a fanatical cult whose sinister mission is wrapped in the teachings of the great Greek mathematician Pythagoras. His cult is committed to following their brilliant and mad leader on a series of assignments, each one more diabolical and destructive than the last. When Alfred Hutchinson, Great Britain’s Goodwill Ambassador to the World, is murdered by a stranger whose umbrella tip bears a tiny capsule of ricin poison and who leaves behind a scrawled 4, Bond is called upon to halt the escalating body count of the Number Killer. His hunt will take him from the wild backroads of Texas to the crumbling ruins of Greece, a trail that crisscrosses the potentially explosive tinderbox of Cyprus. At every step he must use both cunning and brute force to stay ahead of or even with the grand plan of the Monad, the shadowy mastermind behind the cult. Propelled by an extraordinary Jaguar XK8 coup designed for this mission, challenged by life threatening underwater and aerial attacks, and seduced by a galaxy of beautiful and destructive women, James Bond is once again the archetype action hero this time caught in a final countdown, where each heartbeat could be his last.

The World is Not Enough

Greed, revenge, world domination through the power of oil, high tech terrorism…
Only some of the ingredients of this latest 007 adventure which begins outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, continues with a spectacular high speed boat chase up the Thames and progresses through the highlands of Scotland before Bond faces an avalanche in the Caucasus Mountains and a potential nuclear explosion in Turkey. Sir Robert King, a wealthy oil tycoon, is murdered in an unprecedented bombing at MI6’s London headquarters. M takes the attack personally and sends James Bond to protect King’s beautiful and fiery daughter Elektra in Turkey. For the man responsible for the bombing is ‘Renard’, a cruel and cunning terrorist who once attempted to kidnap Elektra King and hold her to ransom. With nuclear weapons expert Dr. Chrismas Jones at his side, Bond travels to the Caspian Sea and Istanbul where a former enemy becomes a formidable ally before the final dramatic confrontation in the claustrophobic confines of a nuclear submarine beneath the surface of the Bosporus. The World is Not Enough takes James Bond to new levels of danger, intrigue and non stop action.

High Time to Kill

The Union is a criminal organization with tentacles throughout the world, specializing in military espionage, theft, intimidation and murder. After one of its agents assassinates James Bond’s friend, the Union becomes 007’s priority target.

Doubleshot

A gripping new James Bond adventure one of the strangest and most terrifying the agent has ever endured. Is this bizarre warning inside a fortune cookie the catalyst for a series of unsettling events that could push an impaired James Bond close to the edge of madness?The intricately organized criminal conspiracy called the Union has vowed its revenge on the man who thwarted its last coup. Now, the Union’s mysterious leader sets out to destroy James Bond’s reputation and sanity by luring the agent into a dangerous alliance of deceit and treason with a Spanish militant intent on reclaiming Gibraltar. Officially on medical leave, 007 pursues clues that he believes might lead him to the Union’s inner circle. His search takes him from the seedy underbelly of London’s Soho to the souks of Tangier; from a terrorist training camp in Morocco to a bullring in Spain; and from the clutches of a murderous Spanish beauty to a volatile summit conference on the Rock of Gibraltar. Each step brings him closer to the truth about the Union’s elaborate, audacious plot to destroy both SIS and its best agent: James Bond.

Never Dream of Dying

A movie is a perfect hiding place for crime, as Bond finds when he uncovers how a film producer is a front for an international crime conspiracy. The Union already encountered in the latest two Bond adventures High Time to Kill and Doubleshot reveals its connections to the Cannes Film Festival and the Corsican mafia. Before he has finished, Bond will have to save the producer’s exquisite movie star wife, confront Le Gerant, the brains behind the Union and settle a score from many years ago.

The Man With the Red Tattoo

On a quiet late night flight from Tokyo to London, a beautiful young woman, Kioko McMahon, falls ill. Before the plane can reach emergency medical facilities across the Pacific, she succumbs to her inexplicable symptoms. The mystery deepens when police in Japan discover that her family shared her fate. The only survivor is her rebellious sister, Mayumi, who had run off with her gang member boyfriend several years before. Because the late patriarch of the family, Peter McMahon, was the head of one of the world’s most important genetic research companies, and a personal friend of the Prime Minister, James Bond is sent to investigate the deaths. 007’s quest for answers leads to the surviving sister and to a nest of Yakuza gangsters. Along the way, he uncovers a plot of such monstrous proportions that it could only have been hatched in the mind of a madman.

Die Another Day

Based on the screenplay by Neal Purvis and Robert WadeWhen danger becomes a temptation…
when every move brings you closer to the edge…
when you live every day as if it’s your last…
there’s a surprise around every curve. After months of torture in a North Korean prison, secret agent James Bond is released, only to find that M has deactivated him. On his own, Agent 007 follows the trail of a megalomaniac menace through the seedy streets of Shanghai and hideaways of Havana. Finally, in a magnificent crystalline ice palace, Bond encounters two fiery femmes fatales and a master plot to destroy the planet with a demonic weapon of mass destruction. Die Another Day 2002 Danjaq, LLC and United Artists Corporation ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Devil May Care (By:Sebastian Faulks)

200 copies sold out in 2 hoursOnly 100 copies left, available only in USA at RandomHouse. comIt is with the greatest delight that we present the Bentley Special Series edition of Devil May Care. The ultimate in luxury editions this beautifully crafted book represents a unique alliance between two of the world’s most iconic brands: James Bond and Bentley Motors. Cars and James Bond have always had a special association our favourite spy is suitably famed for his fast cars and even faster driving. Whether it s in pursuit of an arch nemesis or a beautiful woman, Bond is always at home behind the wheel of a luxury sports car. Contrary to popular belief however, Bond s preference has historically been firmly with Bentley Motors. In the course of the fourteen original Bond novels, Fleming wrote of Bond owning three Bentleys the last of which was a Bentley R type, which Bond lovingly referred to as the locomotive . These were Bond s personal cars the cars that Fleming thought most epitomized the discernment and style of his hero. In Devil May Care, written by Sebastian Faulks to celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming s birth, it is fitting that Bond is found once again in the driving seat of his favorite motor the Bentley. To mark this momentous occasion, the publishers approached the famous Crewe firm to produce a Bentley edition of the book. This beautifully crafted luxury edition is the result. Bringing together the design and materials that epitomise the quality and craftsmanship of Bentley Motors, this is the perfect celebration of the centenary of Ian Fleming s birth. Only 300 copies of the Special Series edition will be produced worldwide, with only 100 available in the US, costing $1500 each. A HISTORY OF BOND AND BENTLEY In Casino Royale we first hear of Bond s fascination with Bentleys he drives: One of the last of the 4 ? litre Bentleys with the supercharger by Amherst Villiers, he had bought it almost new in 1933 and had kept it in careful storage through the war. It was still serviced every year and, in London, a former Bentley mechanic, who worked in a garage near Bond s Chelsea flat, tended it with jealous care. Bond drove it hard and well and with an almost sensual pleasure. It was a battleship grey convertible coup , which really did convert, and it was capable of touring at ninety with thirty miles an hour in reserve. Bond writes off his first Bentley in Moonraker after which he takes delivery of a Mark VI. The 1953 Mark VI, had an open touring body. It was battleship grey like the old 4 ? litre that had gone to its grave in a Maidstone garage, and the dark blue leather upholstery gave a luxurious hiss as he climbed awkwardly in beside the test driver. The Mark VI however is quickly surpassed by Bond s third and final Bentley the Continental, which Fleming describes as the most selfish car in England. This is the car that Bond drives in Thunderball and subsequently in On Her Majesty s Secret Service. It was a MK V I Continental Bentley that some rich idiot had married to a telegraph pole on the Great West Road. Bond had bought the bits for 1,500 and Rolls had straightened the bend in the chassis and fitted new clockwork the Mark VI engine with 9.5 compression. This is the car that most seems to have captured Fleming s imagination he researched the specification carefully, going into meticulous detail as to the car s modifications. Writing to his friend Whitney Straight he states: In connection with James Bond’s new car, I would like it to be a cross between a Continental Bentley and a Ford Thunderbird i.e. a smallish cockpit with a long bonnet line and a large boot behind. He is thought to have based the car on a custom modified Bentley Continental designed by French coachbuilder Henri Chapron http://www. continental. org. uk/index. htm?http://www. continental. org. uk/bond. htm. Fleming goes on to describe the novel in greater detail in the novels: Bond had gone to Mulliners with 3,000 which was half his total capital, and they had sawn off the old cramped sports saloon body and had fitted a trim, rather square convertible two seater affair, power operated, with only two large armed bucket seats in black leather. The rest of the blunt end was all knife edged rather ugly, trunk Bond clearly shares Fleming s passion for this particular car, so much so that he names it the locomotive It s his personal car the Aston Martin was the pool car of the service and as such his real automotive passion stays with the Bentley. The car was painted in rough, not gloss, battleship grey and the upholstery was black morocco She went like a bird and a bomb and Bond loved her more than all the women at present in his life rolled, if that were feasible, together. And so in Devil May Care Sebastian Faulks once more treats us to Bond happily behind the wheel of the locomotive you ll have to wait until May 28th to read more. THE DESIGN STORYThe publishers approached Bentley soon after they signed Sebastian Faulks to write the new James Bond novel. We had, from the very beginning, wanted to produce a special edition and Bentley was the first and immediate choice. And so they went to Crewe, to Bentley HQ, to meet their design team. Dirk van Braekel is Chief Designer at Bentley. He studied at the Royal College of Art, one of the first schools to specialize in car design. He then joined Volkswagen unit Audi in 1984, and was drafted in to head up Bentley s design team when the VW group acquired the company in 1998. There, he created the groundbreaking design for the Bentley Continental GT, launched in 2004 and one of the most successful sports coupes of our times. Under Dirk s guidance, the Bentley Design team have produced the phenomenal design for the Special Series edition. What struck me with the Bond story is that throughout the novels there has always been the connection to Bentley which unfortunately has never really surfaced in the films, so unless you are an absolute Bond fan, hardly anybody knows this. Now we were offered an opportunity to get that link a bit more in the open. Fresh recruit to the team, Kate Whatmore, was instrumental in conceiving the wonderful combination of design elements which reflect the craftsmanship of Bentley and the Bentley of Bond s era. As well as the time in which the story is set, the treatment for the design that Kate came up with captures in a subtle way the values that Bentley brand stands for: the leatherwork and bright metal parts; even the layout and the typefaces find their inspiration from the older car handbooks together with some references to what confidential and personal documents looked like in those days. The end result speaks for itself. THE SPECIAL SERIES EDITIONThe Special Series edition takes it s inspiration from the original hard cover cloth casing used by Jonathan Cape publishers when they first published Fleming s books back in the 1950s and 60s. This is combined with the slick and stylish designs of the 1950 s and 60 s Bentley owner s manuals and handbooks. The result is a beautiful and striking edition which immediately captures the suave sophistication of the James Bond novels. Bound in Bodoniana style cases finished in Burnt Oak leather sourced from the Pasubia tannery, which provides the hides for Bentley. The leather casing is then stitched in the iconic Bentley diamond pattern, as found on the radiator grille and the upholstery of modern Bentleys. The stitching is hand applied by the same craftsmen who produce the Vatican s leather bound volumes. The Bentley Flying B the radiator cap of the Bentleys of Bond s time adorns the front cover and spine. The inside of the casing is trimmed in deep red Hotspur leather with the striking fluting used on 50 s and 60 s Bentley interior upholstery. Inside the front cover, each edition is individually identified by its unique edition number on a black lacquer machined steel engine plate as found on every Bentley engine. The book is printed by Graphicom in Italy who have used a Munken Print Cream 150gsm paper stock the highest grade of paper appropriate for such an edition. The typography reflects exactly the styling of the Bentley owner s manua
ls. Each book block is then die cut with a car shaped silhouette. Then the pi ce de resistance into this die cut hole is inserted a cast and polished 1:43 scale model of the modified R type which Fleming is thought to have had Bond driving the Locomotive. The model has been crafted by hand by Bentley s current design team, and reflects all the details Fleming includes in his novels. Compulsion Gallery have produced just 300 of these models each one is individually numbered to match each Special Series book. Finally each book is protected by a custom made plexiglass slip case, which itself will be sealed in protective and numbered wrapping to ensure that this exclusive luxury edition reaches you in perfect condition.

Carte Blanche (By:Jeffery Deaver)

Bestselling thriller superstar Jeffery Deaver pens the blockbuster summer hit: JAMES BOND, back and better than ever, newly updated for the millenium.

Evil Hours

From the acclaimed author of the James Bond novels comes Evil Hours, a classic tale of small town murder, betrayal and, ultimately, redemption. Shannon Reece’s mother was one of several women murdered in the small Texas town of Limite when Shannon was six years old. Her mother’s alleged killer was convicted and sent to jail, where he was subsequently killed by fellow inmates. Now, 26 years later, Shannon has decided that the unresolved questions about the case, which continue to haunt her, can no longer be ignored. With the help of a private eye, Shannon sets out to find the answers, and what she finds reveals some truths that several prominent Limite citizens would rather she had not discovered. In a style that tens of thousands of James Bond fans have come to love, Raymond Benson pulls us, revelation by revelation, into a story you’ll not soon forget.

Face Blind

From Raymond Benson, author of the acclaimed James Bond continuation novels between 1996 2002 and other works of suspense, comes a new and edgy noir thriller. Imagine a world where you don’t recognize the human face. That’s Hannah’s condition ‘prosopagnosia,’ or ‘Face Blindness’ when the brain center that recognizes faces is inoperable. The onset of the condition occurred when she was attacked by an unknown assailant in the inner lobby of her New York City apartment building. And now she thinks he’s back, and not just in her dreams. When she also attracts the attention of a psychopathic predator and becomes the unwitting target of a Mafia drug ring, the scene is set for a thrill ride of mistaken identity, cat and mouse pursuit, and murder. Face Blind is a twisting, turning tale of suspense in which every character has a dark side. The novel will keep the reader surprised and intrigued until the final violent catharsis.

Sweetie’s Diamonds

Diane Boston lives with her Marfan syndrome afflicted 13 year old son in a suburb of Chicago and teaches social studies at the high school, with the students even voting her Teacher of the Year. But she has some dark secrets. Her ex husband Greg always suspected that Diane kept things from him, but he has no idea just how right he is. When Diane’s son, David, finds a box of unmarked videotapes and watches one of them out of curiosity, he discovers that it’s a hardcore adult movie from the late 1970s. The star, Lucy Luv, was an actress that mysteriously disappeared in 1980. Some suspected she’d been murdered. David recognizes the actress as his mother. Then, somehow, the news of Diane’s involvement in the adult film business hits the streets and causes chaos at her school and at home. It also attracts the attention of the West Coast po*rn czar who has ties with organized crime. Apparently when Lucy Luv disappeared, she took a cache of stolen diamonds with her. This is the catalyst for a non stop roller coaster ride of suspense and mystery that involves the dark side of the adult film industry, the mob, kidnapping, and murder. Raymond Benson has authored several of the James Bond novels, as well as the novelizations of the films Die Another Day, The World is Not Enough, and Tomorrow Never Dies. As ‘David Michaels,’ Raymond is also the author of the action/adventure novel Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Operation Barracuda. Raymond is married, has one son, and is based in the Chicago area.

H.A.W.X.

The skies will never be the same…
Never before published. Just as Troy Loensch comes into his own as a pilot with the United States Air Force, a private military contractor called Firehawk takes over. Troy isn’t happy with the arrangement and neither is the CIA. And when they ask Troy for help investigating Firehawk, he accepts with explosive consequences…

Homefront: The Voice of Freedom (With: John Milius)

HOME IS WHERE THE WAR IS America may be reeling from endless recessions and crippling oil wars, but hack reporter Ben Walker never expected to see his homeland invaded and occupied by a reunified Korea now a formidable world power under Kim Jong il’s dictator son. The enemy s massive cyberattack is followed by the detonation of an electromagnetic pulse that destroys technology across the United States. Communications, weapons, and defense systems are rendered useless; thousands perish as vehicles suddenly lose power and passenger jets plummet to the ground. Fleeing the chaos of Los Angeles, Walker discovers that although America s military has been scattered, its fighting spirit remains. Walker joins the soldiers as they head east across the desert, battling Korean patrols and soon finds his own mission. Walker reinvents himself as the Voice of Freedom, broadcasting information and enemy positions to civilian Resistance cells via guerrilla radio. But Walker s broadcasts have also reached the ears of the enemy. Korea dispatches its deadliest warrior to hunt the Voice of Freedom and crush the ever growing Resistance before it can mount a new war for American liberty.

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