But which this time is the 'true' hardback first edition - the grey covered version or the Waterstones 'black' version, which comes with the usual first edition markings but also includes 18 additional pages of Fleming's full MURDER ON WHEELS?
The Grey cover version has a number line 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 (at least my copy from Amazon does)
The Black waterstones version has 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. To me that suggests black waterstones is first.
Just checked my uncorrected proof - that also has 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 so thats the 1st. Oddly the proof does not have the extra material at the back.
Also noticed the proof has a slightly different design under the jacket - the release date on the back cover is removed for the released version.
But which this time is the 'true' hardback first edition - the grey covered version or the Waterstones 'black' version, which comes with the usual first edition markings but also includes 18 additional pages of Fleming's full MURDER ON WHEELS?
The Grey cover version has a number line 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 (at least my copy from Amazon does)
The Black waterstones version has 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. To me that suggests black waterstones is first.
Just checked my uncorrected proof - that also has 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 so thats the 1st. Oddly the proof does not have the extra material at the back.
Also noticed the proof has a slightly different design under the jacket - the release date on the back cover is removed for the released version.
Well spotted, Alan.
The Waterstones black I have is numbered as you suggest. Not seen a grey one, but Goldsboro promised their signed and numbered grey will be a first ie - I guess - numbered as one would be, 1-10
Silhouette ManThe last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
Oh dear, it seems I need to get the black edition too, then. I didn't see any in Waterstones but I desperately want the Fleming material added at the end. 8-)
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
The M - Bond conversation is chapter 3, not 7, Murder on Wheels.
In the Waterstones version, H confirms the Fleming stuff is as TP says but he kept the title for chapter 7.
The Waterstones Black, however, contains the full transcript of Fleming's original, unaltered, as a unique addendum.
Silhouette ManThe last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
The special black first edition of Trigger Mortis available at Waterstones also contains the extra Fleming TV treatment for 'Murder on Wheels' as was promised some time ago.
Edit: sorry, wrote most of this before I saw David's post above there!
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
Anybody finished it yet and thoughts without spoilers??
I ordered the Black Waterstones version but impatiently ordered the digital download. First few chapters seem quite Fleming in style and enjoyable (especially the intro) however I'm cautious as enjoyed the first few chapters of some of the other recent attempts!!
Anybody finished it yet and thoughts without spoilers??
I ordered a digital copy and spent the night reading it.
Disclaimer, I have not read any of Flemming's novels and have only read Solo as my first James Bond book, Trigger Mortis being my second.
I felt the story was well written and the action kept me in it so I didn't put it down. The description of the scenery and action was well described and allowed me to imagine them well in my head. The villain and his quirks I liked and thought made for a good Bond villain and plausible criminal plan.
I'm about 85% through it, hope to finish it tonight. A very short
Review would be it's very good indeed. IMHO far better than the
Last three celeb writers. The only minor fault ( if that) is the villain's
Scheme is fairly easy to work out, but that's being very pickey.
I don't expect it to suddenly do downhill in the last few chapters.
On a personal note, from listening to the many Bond plays on BBC radio
4. I now hear Bond speak as Toby Stephens
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
I'm about 85% through it, hope to finish it tonight. A very short
Review would be it's very good indeed. IMHO far better than the
Last three celeb writers. The only minor fault ( if that) is the villain's
Scheme is fairly easy to work out, but that's being very pickey.
I don't expect it to suddenly do downhill in the last few chapters.
On a personal note, from listening to the many Bond plays on BBC radio
4. I now hear Bond speak as Toby Stephens
For me it's David Rintoul!
Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
The special black first edition of Trigger Mortis available at Waterstones also contains the extra Fleming TV treatment for 'Murder on Wheels' as was promised some time ago.
Edit: sorry, wrote most of this before I saw David's post above there!
Yes I went around the bookshops and malls and in WHSmith the basic copy has a grey cover with orange lettering and is
half price at £9.49. (I expect ASDA will be cheap(er)
If you pay £14.99 at Waterstones bookshops you can get the Black cover (same design) but with the 7 typewritten pages
by Fleming for an outline of a TV episode (never happened) of Bond motor racing at Nurburgring Germany in 1957 and stopping
SMERSH pushing Stirling Moss' car off the track. (fiction.)
At an independent bookshop I visited they are NOT getting signed and numbered editions like previous Bond books-just the plain version.
Bleuville. P.S.- There's also a new Jack Reacher hardback called Make Me. So that's a lot of books I bought!
The Waterstones Black was available pre-publication for £9.49 with £4.95 guaranteed publication date delivery price to home or free to collect from one of their shops.
Below is a link to a short interview with Anthony Horowitz on Trigger Mortis that aired earlier today. If you click the link at the top of the page your can hear the interview.
"A blunt instrument wielded by a Government department. Hard, ruthless, sardonic, fatalistic. He likes gambling, golf, fast motor cars. All his movements are relaxed and economical". Ian Fleming
Finished Trigger Mortis last night and have to say I really enjoyed it. -{
It is very much in the Fleming style, not a pastiche but an honest homage
Horowitz is obviously a fan.
The only minor ( very minor) annoyances. I can't see how having Pussy
Galore involved, adds anything to the story. Infact Fleming himself wrote
about the end of a relationship with Tiffany Case. Also the exciting action
filled ending, reads to me at least as more of a John Gardner novel.
These are only minor points, and don't detract from my over all enjoyment.
I'd highly recommend it. -{
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
You shouldn't be disappointed, it's getting good reviews and
IMHO it's a great read. He hasn't tried to be clever, or experiment
With some new twist on the genre. It's a good solid story with
Some interesting characters, and lots of lovely excitement for 007. -{
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
I didn't hate DMC, except the last third. When he had Bond escaping from Russia
( That's one example, of authors, playing around with the Fleming formula) liked
the villain and his plot, it was a lot better than Solo, ( which I hated) .
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
Other than both DMC and SOLO retrospectively wuzzify JB, DMC is probably the better. SOLO is fine in the UK, crap everywhere else.
Faulks should have put JB on the right plane tho, forget the non-twist, and why, oh why - other than to be REALLY PC - did Faulks have JB remark that Russia wasn't a bad place after all, he had just decided ON HIS FIRT VISIT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wot, both JB and Faulks forget JB's stationing at the Embassy in Moscow, and later Vladivostok and Leningrad and "Colonel Boris"?????
Then again, Horowitz has also pulled a classic piece of IF contradiction and I'm only at Chapter 7....
Has anyone seen sales figures? Looked on line without any luck (but that could just be!) was just wondering if we'll get a follow up? Or will be another different author?
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The Grey cover version has a number line 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 (at least my copy from Amazon does)
The Black waterstones version has 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. To me that suggests black waterstones is first.
Just checked my uncorrected proof - that also has 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 so thats the 1st. Oddly the proof does not have the extra material at the back.
Also noticed the proof has a slightly different design under the jacket - the release date on the back cover is removed for the released version.
Well spotted, Alan.
The Waterstones black I have is numbered as you suggest. Not seen a grey one, but Goldsboro promised their signed and numbered grey will be a first ie - I guess - numbered as one would be, 1-10
In the Waterstones version, H confirms the Fleming stuff is as TP says but he kept the title for chapter 7.
The Waterstones Black, however, contains the full transcript of Fleming's original, unaltered, as a unique addendum.
Edit: sorry, wrote most of this before I saw David's post above there!
I ordered the Black Waterstones version but impatiently ordered the digital download. First few chapters seem quite Fleming in style and enjoyable (especially the intro) however I'm cautious as enjoyed the first few chapters of some of the other recent attempts!!
I ordered a digital copy and spent the night reading it.
Disclaimer, I have not read any of Flemming's novels and have only read Solo as my first James Bond book, Trigger Mortis being my second.
I felt the story was well written and the action kept me in it so I didn't put it down. The description of the scenery and action was well described and allowed me to imagine them well in my head. The villain and his quirks I liked and thought made for a good Bond villain and plausible criminal plan.
Review would be it's very good indeed. IMHO far better than the
Last three celeb writers. The only minor fault ( if that) is the villain's
Scheme is fairly easy to work out, but that's being very pickey.
I don't expect it to suddenly do downhill in the last few chapters.
On a personal note, from listening to the many Bond plays on BBC radio
4. I now hear Bond speak as Toby Stephens
For me it's David Rintoul!
Yes I went around the bookshops and malls and in WHSmith the basic copy has a grey cover with orange lettering and is
half price at £9.49. (I expect ASDA will be cheap(er)
If you pay £14.99 at Waterstones bookshops you can get the Black cover (same design) but with the 7 typewritten pages
by Fleming for an outline of a TV episode (never happened) of Bond motor racing at Nurburgring Germany in 1957 and stopping
SMERSH pushing Stirling Moss' car off the track. (fiction.)
At an independent bookshop I visited they are NOT getting signed and numbered editions like previous Bond books-just the plain version.
Bleuville. P.S.- There's also a new Jack Reacher hardback called Make Me. So that's a lot of books I bought!
http://www.npr.org/2015/09/09/438841436/is-007-losing-his-cool-trigger-mortis-helps-bring-bond-into-21st-century?ft=nprml&f=
It is very much in the Fleming style, not a pastiche but an honest homage
Horowitz is obviously a fan.
The only minor ( very minor) annoyances. I can't see how having Pussy
Galore involved, adds anything to the story. Infact Fleming himself wrote
about the end of a relationship with Tiffany Case. Also the exciting action
filled ending, reads to me at least as more of a John Gardner novel.
These are only minor points, and don't detract from my over all enjoyment.
I'd highly recommend it. -{
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
IMHO it's a great read. He hasn't tried to be clever, or experiment
With some new twist on the genre. It's a good solid story with
Some interesting characters, and lots of lovely excitement for 007. -{
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
( That's one example, of authors, playing around with the Fleming formula) liked
the villain and his plot, it was a lot better than Solo, ( which I hated) .
Faulks should have put JB on the right plane tho, forget the non-twist, and why, oh why - other than to be REALLY PC - did Faulks have JB remark that Russia wasn't a bad place after all, he had just decided ON HIS FIRT VISIT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wot, both JB and Faulks forget JB's stationing at the Embassy in Moscow, and later Vladivostok and Leningrad and "Colonel Boris"?????
Then again, Horowitz has also pulled a classic piece of IF contradiction and I'm only at Chapter 7....
*faints*
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
Up for it.
CATCHING BULLETS was fortunate enough to be able to attend the launch of the new Bond novel. Here is the report and photos...
http://markoconnell.co.uk/catching-trigger-mortis-at-its-london-launch/
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www.markoconnell.co.uk
read by Hugh Quarshie.
Thanks for posting - beginning to regret missing this!
Did anyone else attend the launch event/get a signed copy?