Topic: James Leasor and the James Bond Continuation Authorship in the 1960s?
I'm very interested in how James Leasor (1923-2007) was asked in the 1960s by Glidrose to be the first James Bond continuation author before Kingsley Amis and Geoffrey Jenkins, on the strength of his successful Dr Jason Love spy novel series (one of which was filmed as Where the Spies Are [1966], starring David Niven). Mr Leasor reportedly declined the offer to be the first James Bond continuation author.
Does anyone know anything more about this besides the scant information that is available about this online which comes from his obituary in The Times in 2007?
Have you read any of the Dr Jason Love spy novels and if you have what sort of Bond novels do you think James Leasor would have went on to write?
If so, I'd love to hear from you.
P.S. Read more about James Leasor's life and works here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Leasor
Last edited by Silhouette Man (1st Mar 2019 14:02)