Back in London, Bond learns about a SMERSH plot to infiltrate the German Grand Prix and take Lancy Smith (a thinly-disguised Sterling Moss Smith, like Moss, even drives a Vanwall) out of the race – permanently. We left that adventure (spoiler alert) on Weathership Charlie off the Canadian coast Bond, taking Pussy Galore with him, having ditched a Stratocruiser into the ocean, with Goldfinger lying dead on the floor of the plane. Trigger Mortis takes the reader back to 1957 and follows immediately from the final events of Goldfinger. It is as if the manuscript of a long lost Bond novel had been discovered in the bottom drawer of Fleming's writing desk at Goldeneye. In incorporating original material by Ian Fleming, and carefully referencing the touchstones of James Bond's world, Horowitz has delivered the authentic voice of Bond's creator. Anthony Horowitz, the author of the latest Bond adventure, Trigger Mortis, has gone one better. The cover of Devil May Care, Sebastian Faulks' James Bond novel (some might call it an extended pastiche), proclaimed that its author was writing as Ian Fleming. The window display of Waterstones, Piccadilly, where Trigger Mortis was launched
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