Anthony Horowitz is one of the UK's most prolific and successful writers. His novels The House of Silk and Moriarty were Sunday Times Top 10 bestsellers and sold in more than thirty-five countries around the world. His bestselling Alex Rider series for children has sold more than nineteen million copies worldwide. He is also the author of a James Bond novel, Trigger Mortis. As a TV screenwriter he created both Midsomer Murders and the BAFTA-winning Foyle's War; other TV work includes Poirot, the widely-acclaimed mini-series Collision and Injustice and most recently, New Blood for the BBC. Anthony sits on the board of the Old Vic and regularly contributes to a wide variety of national newspapers and magazines. In January 2014 he was awarded an OBE for services to literature. Anthony Horowitz lives in London. www.anthonyhorowitz.com @AnthonyHorowitz
A humdinger of a Bond story, so cunningly crafted and thrillingly
placed that OO7's creator would have been happy to own it.... The
book is the best Bond movie you'll ever see without actually having
to see the movie.
*FINANCIAL TIMES*
TRIGGER MORTIS is a blast. Set two weeks after the end of the novel
Goldfinger in 1957, it has a superb plot based around the early
space race and features the return of the best Bond girl of them
all, Pussy Galore.
*MAIL ON SUNDAY*
Fleming fans certainly won't be disappointed. Trigger Mortis
contains all the adrenaline you'd expect from a Bond novel with
bags of humour, international jet-setting and a compelling cast of
inventively named characters. It is, one suspects, a novel Fleming
would be proud to have in the 007 canon.
*SUNDAY EXPRESS*
Almost too good
*EVENING STANDARD*
Horowitz is doing something both clever and audacious...a clever
and enjoyable pastiche, which manages to press many of the buttons
that were the purview of 007's creator.
*INDEPENDENT*
There is a delicate line separating imitation from parody and
Horowitz stays on the right side of it to perfection.
*DAILY EXPRESS*
'Sexy, slick and full of suspense, this new Bond novel is perfect
escapism.'
*GRAZIA*
Anthony Horowitz knows exactly what ingredients are required to
satisfy even the most gluttonous James Bond fan and serves them up
with the confidence of the self-confessed aficionado that he is...
In Trigger Mortis the reader finds set pieces expertly handled and
genuinely exciting... it all makes for an energetic and satisfying
read.
*INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY*
'This supremely well-crafted thriller is an expertly shaken martini
of authentic flavours, right down to several heart-pounding set
pieces that surely belong on the big screen. Women... are in the
driving seat in more senses than one, while Bond is an alluring mix
of emotional detachment and death-defying heroics. Pure
Pleasure.'
*METRO*
'Ultimately, Horowitz seems to me to have captured the spirit of
Fleming more successfully than his recent illustrious predecessors
in the Bond-sequel game.'
*Daily Telegraph*
Trigger Mortis is cool and restrained... Fleming's best work was
possessed of a rather insouciant tone; a wry, weary, mid-century
tone that Horowitz captures exactly.
*NEW STATESMAN*
The tension-filled opening sequence is there, the threat to world
peace, the race to prevent central Manhattan being blown to
smithereens, beautiful women and dodgy gangsters, but, somehow,
Bond is more likeable. Daniel Craig would be hard pushed to
describe this one as sexist and misogynistic. Mr Horowitz has
introduced us to a more rounded hero, but one who won't disappoint
the traditionalists.
*COUNTRY LIFE*
'Horowitz's brings her [Pussy Galore] back as something like a
three-dimensional woman, giving her an arc that surpasses Bond's
hackneyed Freudian masculinity... He delivers the tersely precise
prose that makes Bond so compelling, but more than that, he also
supplies touches of Fleming's cruel poetry.'
*GUARDIAN*
'Horowitz has an amazing facility for narrating action, and the
set-pieces are terrific... the final 50 pages pass in a breathless
rush of excitement.'
*SUNDAY TIMES*
Anthony Horowitz produced as good an ersatz James Bond novel as one
could hope for in TRIGGER MORTIS
*DAILY TELEGRAPH - Christmas Books*
A fast-paced Cold War thriller that should please literary Bond
fans... a modern take on a period series: Bond doesn't seem quite
as cold and brutal as Fleming's original and in a couple of places,
the writer's 21st century morality seems to seep almost
unconsciously through.
*YORKSHIRE POST*
'All elements are in place. We have the fast cars, the dead-eyed
villain with a penchant for playing cards, a mysterious woman and
an intricate plot involving rockets.'
*RTE GUIDE*
'A cocktail of speed, danger, strong women and fiendish
villains.'
*GAINSBOROUGH ECHO*
'A pacy Cold War thriller that will please Bond fans.'
*OLDHAM EVENING CHRONICLE*
Fervent fans and completists will likely not be disappointed.
*Weekend Australian*
Bond and his creator have been under siege from the second-rate and
politically censorious for decades. It has taken 50 years for one
author, Anthony Horowitz, to finally deliver the respectful and
tender homage both have long deserved. It is a cause for
celebration.
*Canberra Times, Saturday Age Melbourne, Sydney Morning Herald*
Endorsed by the Bond estate, Anthony Horowitz does a sterling job
of bringing the spy's bygone era to life, helped in part by access
to Fleming's papers.
*Herald Sun, Melbourne*
The Fleming chapter slips in almost seamlessly, a testament to how
attentive Horowitz has been to his master's style.
*GUARDIAN*
"A masterly feat of literary ventriloquism."
*TIMES*
"A pleasingly modern perspective while still managing to retain the
essence of Ian Fleming's original novels. It also happens to be a
great read."
*CHOICE*
'If you like the original Bond books it's a safe bet that you'll
like Trigger Mortis, too. Horowitz captures the flavour and feel of
the originals.'
*CRIMEREVIEW*
'Break-neck pace, complex and entertaining plot, and thrilling
action... Expertly structured with plenty of twists and turns, this
is classic Bond.'
*BOOKBAG*
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