The James Bond franchise has flourished for over six decades, and in the process shaped pop culture in manifold ways, from the image of the spy to the conventions of the action film. Yet, well-known as James Bond is, a very great deal about the series as it was originally conceived, from the self-parody in the original Ian Fleming novels, to the places some of the most and least-praised Bond films hold in cinematic history, to the various ways the authors of the continuation novels have handled the adventures, are now remembered only vaguely, or not at all. THE FORGOTTEN JAMES BOND takes all...

Manhattan art dealer and sometime art thief Ashley Sutton has been blackmailed by a mysterious client into the most dangerous job of her career-breaking into the ninetieth story office of financier Harold Northrop and stealing a disc from his safe. The job goes badly, and Ashley and her partner Logan Scott end up on the run, from both Northrop, and her angry client. Their only way out lies in their unraveling the mystery of the disc's contents-which leads Ashley into a dark corner of her personal past, while plunging her into the middle of a conspiracy by a secretive and powerful group intent...

THE MANY LIVES AND DEATHS OF JAMES BOND looks at both the James Bond novels, and the James Bond films, and how they have related to each other and pop culture as a whole, from the place of Ian Fleming in the history of the spy novel, to the impact of the early Bond films on the action movie, to how the series has responded to six decades of political and cultural change. This second edition of the book up to date with coverage of the fiftieth anniversary film SKYFALL, and William Boyd's Bond novel, SOLO.