"James Bond" novel
marxred
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I've been trying to track a book down....don't know the title or the author. I found it at a "Dollar Tree" store in their discount book section. The inside flap described it as a plot for a Bond Novel, but it was rejected as so. I wish I had bought it. Does this sound familiar with anyone. I know, difficult.
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Could it have been Per Fine Ounce by Peter Vollmer I wonder? It started out life as a rejected and then lost Bond novel by the South African thriller writer Geoffrey Jenkins (1920-2001):
Read more about the original Per Fine Ounce here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Fine_Ounce#:~:text=Per%20Fine%20Ounce%20is%20the,official%20publishers%20of%20James%20Bond.
Could it have been "Forever and a Death" by Donald Westlake? I rather enjoyed it.
Forever and a Death by Donald E. Westlake | Penguin Random House Canada
That was the other one I had in mind though that adapted was from an unused script for Tomorrow Never Dies, as opposed to a rejected Bond novel.
funny coincidence Westlake's Forever and a Death and Horowitz's Forever and a Day both coming out the same year (2018).
Both could possibly be said to be inspired by John Gardner's Death is Forever (1992) too, although that in itself was inspired by a line near the end of Ian Fleming's Diamonds Are Forever (1956) and so the influences go on...
Thanks, Friends....Forever and a Death might be the book I'm looking for....splendid work, folks.
You're very welcome, @marxred. I hope you stick around. We can always do with more members contributing to the Literary Bond sub-forum here on AJB. 🙂