I am giving Boyd four stars (or three that I should) not because it’s a bad novel (it isn’t) but because Boyd knows how to write better. I imagine Boyd was being paid well to write this in between books and as his deadline as drawing near he had to wrap up the end with the flourish of the characters telling us what happened and it’s meaning. It is cheap writing lacking in imagination and craftsmanship. Then in the last ten pages he let Bond and Felix Leiter wrap up all the loose ends for us over drinks, including all the geopolitical ramifications, like the last forty-five seconds of a prime time tv cop show. Yet, when the book reach the part when Bond went solo, the plot started to trip over itself, as the story moved to the end, Boyd’s writing became less disciplined, careless, lazy. I have recently read some nine Bond thrillers written by Ian Fleming, and one written by Anthony Horowitz, Forever and a Day.
That is why I was intrigued in reading his version of a James Bond Bond thriller.
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