IFP…I was born ready!
As Rog would say, “in time for Christmas!”
Looking really forward to this book, if only to get a better vibe with 007 after those miserable Craig years.
With the Bond series as popular as its ever been, regardless of how you feel about the films, I wouldn’t call the Craig years miserable.
Well for me they were, so I need a decent 007 tale that does not involve anything personal or family. Looking forward to a new era of 007 which hopefully proves 007 to be more than a miserable git.
Given the era of the books that this book is set in…prepare to hate it.
Especially with it being set at the end of the timeline.
I’ve been awaiting Horowitz’s third more eagerly than I had been awaiting NTTD, so I am very excited for the announcement tomorrow.
I do hope they’ve stepped up the cover design game from his first two. Forever and a Day’s boat-as-bullet was definitely an improvement on the Trigger Mortis blueprint, but neither are particularly striking.
Excellent. The last two books give me confidence this will be good as well.
This was an interesting tidbit.
https://twitter.com/MattNixson/status/1471402138886627329/photo/1
OO7 returns in With A Mind To Kill
I do like that cover art.
With a Mind to Kill opens with M’s funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M’s murder – James Bond.
Behind the Iron Curtain, a group of former Smersh agents want to use the British spy in an operation that will change the balance of world power. Bond is smuggled into the lion’s den – but whose orders is he following, and will he obey them when the moment of truth arrives?
In a mission where treachery is all around and one false move means death, Bond must grapple with the darkest questions about himself. But not even he knows what has happened to the man he used to be.
Nobody here guessed the title. I like it. Wow at the book’s concept. That really hooks me in, and I’m sure there’ll be twists and turns along the way. Horowitz said in a new interview with The Express it’s a more psychological, darker story. Looks like the cover art is resembling a bird?
This could be really great. Release it now!
Good title. Good cover art. Great concept that hasn’t been done before. Take my money now!
Great title, lovely blurb. Can’t wait for this!
I see a brain with what looks like a wedge/stake in it.
It’s a mind to kill 
I love the premise and the cover art appears appropriately dark.
After reading the blurb I was struck by just how needed a novel exploring Bond’s brainwashing and relation to the Russians was. It really feels like something Fleming would have gotten around to had he lived a few years longer.
Is this the first continuation novel to directly pick up from a hanging Fleming plotline? I think so. In that sense, it has the potential to be the “true” sequel to the TMWTGG.
I can see why Amis, Faulks, and Boyd shied away from the ongoing Fleming drama and opted for unrelated plotlines. It would invite far too much criticism and comparison to pick up directly from the Creator on a first attempt.
Horowitz is a very smart man to have written two solid, if conventional, Bond novels to earn the mandate of IFP and the fans to go into this territory and give us something really new.
I didn’t think Forever and A Day was as conventional as the other continuation novels have been, so it’s nice to see Horowitz getting braver with each use of the character