"future books in the series. However, comments made by Higson in an interview could suggest that after Higson's five books are completed, the series may be continued by another author. An original Young Bond short story by Charlie Higson titled ""A Hard Man to Kill"" was published in the companion book """" on 29 October 2009. The story is set between the books ""Hurricane Gold"" and ""By Royal Command"" and involves Young Bond travelling back to London aboard the French ocean liner SS Colombie. An extract from the story appeared in the paperback edition of ""By Royal Command"". It is"
"SilverFin SilverFin is the first novel in the Young Bond series that depicts Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s. It was written by Charlie Higson and released in the United Kingdom on March 3, 2005 by Puffin Books in conjunction with a large marketing campaign; a Canadian release of the same edition occurred in late March. The United States edition, which was slightly edited for content, was released on April 27, 2005 by Miramax Books. ""SilverFin""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s success spawned a mobile game published by PlayerOne on January 5, 2006 in conjunction with the release of the"
"""all new material"" and a redesigned cover. A graphic novel adaptation of ""SilverFin"" written by Charlie Higson and illustrated by artist Kev Walker was released by Puffin Books in the UK on 2 October 2008 and by Disney Hyperion in the U.S. on 18 May 2010. SilverFin SilverFin is the first novel in the Young Bond series that depicts Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s. It was written by Charlie Higson and released in the United Kingdom on March 3, 2005 by Puffin Books in conjunction with a large marketing campaign; a Canadian release of"
"second novel in the Young Bond series, ""Blood Fever"". The game features 3 locations, 15 levels, and a variety of enemies that the player must avoid. Because Ian Fleming never explicitly said when James Bond was born, Ian Fleming Publications and Charlie Higson chose the year 1920 as his birth year. ""SilverFin"" takes place in 1933. ""SilverFin"" is broken up into three parts in addition to a prologue. In the prologue, an unnamed school boy is attacked by eels, attracted to a bleeding fishhook cut, while fishing in Loch Silverfin. Then from nowhere a mysterious eel-like man runs and jumps"
"and have been translated into 25 languages. In December 2010 all five Young Bond books were released as eBooks by Ian Fleming Publications. On 5 May 2011 Puffin Books released two special editions of ""SilverFin"" The five book Young Bond series will be re-released in the UK on 5 April 2012 with all new cover art by ""Hyperion Books"". In June 2004 it was announced that the Young Bond series would be published by Miramax Books, then still a part of Disney. The acquisition was announced by Miramax co-chair Harvey Weinstein and Miramax Books president & editor in chief Jonathan"
"of sea urchins, where she finally dies from the pain and poison. As Bond and Amy wade to the surface, Amy suddenly steps on a sea urchin. Bond knows exactly how to remove it. Blood Fever Blood Fever is the second novel in the Young Bond series depicting Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s. The novel, written by Charlie Higson, was released in the United Kingdom on 5 January 2006 by Puffin Books. ""Blood Fever"" begins with a prologue during which a young girl named Amy Goodenough is aboard her father's yacht in the middle"
"best-selling children's books in the UK. By November 2005, ""SilverFin"" had already sold 500,000 copies worldwide. A second book in the Young Bond series, ""Blood Fever"", was released on 5 January 2006 in the UK having been delayed from an initial release in October 2005. The book reached the number one spot on the Booksellers list of best-selling children's books in the UK in its second week of release and held the spot for eleven weeks. ""Double or Die"", the third book in the series, was released in the UK on 4 January 2007, having had its title announced the"
"Deaver included a number of elements from the Fleming novels, including Bond's tastes for food and wine, his gadgets and ""the rather preposterous names of some of the female characters."" In 2013 the William Boyd-written continuation novel ""Solo"" was released; it ignored Deaver's new timeframe and was set in 1969. In October 2014 it was announced that Anthony Horowitz was to write a further Bond book. The book is due to be set in the 1950s, and it contains material written, but previously unreleased, by Fleming. In 2005 author and comedian Charlie Higson released ""SilverFin"", the first of five novels"
"Blood Fever Blood Fever is the second novel in the Young Bond series depicting Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s. The novel, written by Charlie Higson, was released in the United Kingdom on 5 January 2006 by Puffin Books. ""Blood Fever"" begins with a prologue during which a young girl named Amy Goodenough is aboard her father's yacht in the middle of the Mediterranean when she becomes witness to a band of pirates under the command of Zoltan the Magyar who board the yacht. Zoltan's men ransack the vessel and in the process murder Amy's"
"of the miniseries was delayed due to concerns over the cover art for the issue, and ultimately Topps chose to discontinue publishing the adaptation, and also cancelled plans for an ongoing James Bond comic book series. A graphic novel adaptation of Charlie Higson's first Young Bond novel ""SilverFin"" was released in the UK on October 2, 2008. The book is illustrated by Kev Walker. Dynamite Entertainment's senior editor Joseph Rybandt, hinted that a graphic novel adaptation of Fleming's first Bond thriller, ""Casino Royale"" is in the pipeline, while they work on an original monthly series, but it wasn't officially announced"
"Rankin. Erskine Childers' ""The Riddle of the Sands"" (1903), is an early example of spy fiction. A noted writer in the spy novel genre was John le Carré, while in thriller writing, Ian Fleming created the character James Bond 007 in January 1952, while on holiday at his Jamaican estate, Goldeneye. Fleming chronicled Bond's adventures in twelve novels, including ""Casino Royale"" (1953), ""Live and Let Die"" (1954), ""Dr. No"" (1958), ""Goldfinger"" (1959), ""Thunderball"" (1961), and nine short story works. Hungarian-born Emma Orczy's (1865–1947) original play, ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"", opened in October 1903 at Nottingham's Theatre Royal but was not a"
"Young Samurai Young Samurai is a series of martial arts/action-adventure stories written by Chris Bradford, set in 17th century Japan, following the exploits of an English boy, Jack Fletcher, as he strives to be the first gaijin samurai. Introduced by Puffin Books as their ""All New Action Hero"", ""Young Samurai"" has been described as a black-belt ""Young Bond"", ""Artemis Fowl"" with swords or ""Percy Jackson"" with ninja. The first ""Young Samurai"" book, """", was published by Puffin Books in 2008. Disney bought the U.S. publishing rights in the same year and had published the book in early March 2009. By"
"on the character's school-days at Eton. Higson was himself educated at Sevenoaks School, where he was a contemporary of Jonathan Evans, former Director General of MI5. The first novel, ""SilverFin"", was released on 3 March 2005 in the UK and on 27 April 2005 in the US. A second novel, ""Blood Fever"", was released on 5 January 2006 in the UK and 1 June in the US. The third novel, ""Double or Die"", was published on 4 January 2007 having had its title announced the day before. The next, ""Hurricane Gold"", came out in hardcover in the UK in September"
"Goldfinger (novel) Goldfinger is the seventh novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 23 March 1959. ""Goldfinger"" originally bore the title ""The Richest Man in the World"" and was written in January and February 1958. The story centres on the investigation by MI6 operative James Bond into the gold smuggling activities of Auric Goldfinger, who is also suspected by MI6 of being connected to SMERSH, the Soviet counter-intelligence organisation. As well as establishing the background to the smuggling operation, Bond uncovers a much larger plot, with Goldfinger planning to steal the"
"at #2, selling 6056 copies in just half a week's sales. Hurricane Gold Hurricane Gold is the fourth novel in the Young Bond series depicting Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s. The novel is set in Mexico and the Caribbean. It was first published in the UK in September 2007. Two American children are abducted by criminals searching for military plans stolen by their father. James Bond attempts to protect them by masquerading as a young Mexican thief and joining the gang. They journey through a Mexico and eventually arrive at the Caribbean island Lagrimas"
"Hurricane Gold Hurricane Gold is the fourth novel in the Young Bond series depicting Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s. The novel is set in Mexico and the Caribbean. It was first published in the UK in September 2007. Two American children are abducted by criminals searching for military plans stolen by their father. James Bond attempts to protect them by masquerading as a young Mexican thief and joining the gang. They journey through a Mexico and eventually arrive at the Caribbean island Lagrimas Negras. They will be kept there for the rest of their"
"1930s. In 2005 the company launched another series of Bond-related spin-off books, ""The Moneypenny Diaries"" by Samantha Weinberg, writing as 'Kate Westbrook'. Young Bond returned in 2013 with ""Shoot to Kill"" by Steve Cole. Written by Kingsley Amis under the pseudonym Robert Markham. The novel by Sebastian Faulks is a one-off adult Bond novel that follows ""The Man with the Golden Gun"" in the 1960s. The book was written to celebrate Ian Fleming's centenary and was released on Fleming's birthday, 28 May 2008. The novel by Jeffery Deaver, ""Carte Blanche"", previously known as ""Project X"", is set in the present"
"that Bond would be 14–15 years old in his novels and that the books would show how the adult Bond was formed. As part of the process for securing the position, Cole was tasked with creating a pitch for a story arc that would stretch across all four books. In May 2014, it was announced that Cole's book, titled ""Shoot to Kill"", and was released on 6 November 2014. In October 2015 at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in England, Cole revealed the cover art for his second novel in the series, titled ""Heads You Die"", which will be published by"
"draw in a new audience. The films have little to do with the Bond we used to know, and now the books are going the same way. Higson, for his part, has been on record as stating that he intends to stay true to the backstory Ian Fleming created for Bond, though this in many ways contradicts the popular """" by John Pearson. When ""SilverFin"" was published in March 2005, reviews of the novel were good. This, in addition to a large marketing campaign in the United Kingdom, elevated ""SilverFin"" to the number eight spot on the Booksellers list of"
"James must travel through Havana and brave Caribbean waters to stop a countdown to mass murder. Fates will be decided with the flip of a coin. Heads or tails. Live or die. Heads You Die Heads You Die is a novel written by Steve Cole, which is the second book by the author in the ""Young Bond"" series, and the seventh chronological novel overall. The book will be published by Red Fox, which is an imprint of Random House that publishes a wide range of paperback books for various age groups. The book was released on May 5, 2016. James's"
"Per Fine Ounce Per Fine Ounce is the title of an unpublished novel by Geoffrey Jenkins featuring Ian Fleming's James Bond. It was completed c.1966 and is considered a ""lost"" novel by fans of James Bond because it was actually commissioned by Glidrose Productions, the official publishers of James Bond. It was rejected for publication, however, missing the opportunity to become the first continuation James Bond novel. ""The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½"", a novel written by the pseudonymous R. D. Mascott, was later published in 1967 featuring James Bond's nephew; ""Colonel Sun"" written by Kingsley Amis under the"
"of Bond in a different way. James Bond (literary character) Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the protagonist of the ""James Bond"" series of novels, films, comics and video games. Fleming wrote twelve Bond novels and two short story collections. His final two books—""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1965) and ""Octopussy and The Living Daylights"" (1966)—were published posthumously. The Bond character is a Secret Service agent, code number 007, residing in London but active internationally. Bond was a composite character who was based"
"he has largely worked on American comic books starting with ""The Legion"" at DC Comics, written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning (DnA), before moving over to Marvel Comics. In April 2006, he worked on Marvel's cosmic crossover event, ""Annihilation"" with DnA plotting Nova, one of its four lead-ins. In 2005, Walker was commissioned by design agency ODD to draw the character of a 13-year-old James Bond for Charlie Higson's first Young Bond novel ""SilverFin"". He also illustrated a graphic novel adaptation of ""SilverFin"" in 2008, and provided cover art for the Young Bond novels released in the U.S. by"
"In thriller writing, Ian Fleming created the character James Bond 007 in January 1952, while on holiday at his Jamaican estate, Goldeneye. Fleming chronicled Bond's adventures in twelve novels, including ""Casino Royale"" (1953), ""Live and Let Die"" (1954), ""Dr. No"" (1958), ""Goldfinger"" (1959), ""Thunderball"" (1961), ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" (1962), and nine short story works. In contrast to the larger-than-life spy capers of Bond, John le Carré was an author of spy novels who depicted a shadowy world of espionage and counter-espionage, and his best known novel ""The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"" (1963), is often regarded"
"leading members were the major fantasy novelists; J. R. R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Lewis is known for ""The Screwtape Letters"" (1942), ""The Chronicles of Narnia"" and ""The Space Trilogy"", while Tolkien is best known as the author of ""The Hobbit"" (1937), ""The Lord of the Rings"", and ""The Silmarillion"". Among important writers of genre fiction in the second half of the twentieth-century are thriller writer Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond 007. Fleming chronicled Bond's adventures in twelve novels, including ""Casino Royale"" (1953). In contrast to the larger-than-life spy capers of Bond, John le Carré was an author of"
"bandits. He is then reunited with his lost comrades after an escape from Daimyō Kato's prison. Jack leaves for home with Yori and his beautiful close friend Akiko. Young Samurai Young Samurai is a series of martial arts/action-adventure stories written by Chris Bradford, set in 17th century Japan, following the exploits of an English boy, Jack Fletcher, as he strives to be the first gaijin samurai. Introduced by Puffin Books as their ""All New Action Hero"", ""Young Samurai"" has been described as a black-belt ""Young Bond"", ""Artemis Fowl"" with swords or ""Percy Jackson"" with ninja. The first ""Young Samurai"" book,"
"Mastered Series, ""Over The Line"" won ""BDSM book of the year 2013"" through BDSM Book Reviews. Her Bonds series debuted in May 2014 starting with the book ""Crave"" which won a Golden Flogger Award in BDSM Light. Book 3, ""Command"" is a Golden Flogger nominee in BDSM Advanced Category. Bonds Series Donovan Dynasty Hawkeye Series Mastered Series Sierra Cartwright Sierra Cartwright (born October 12, 1963) is an International and two time USA Today Best-Selling contemporary romance writer who has published more than 30 books, including the mass market paperback Donovan Dynasty Series: Bind, Brand, and Boss. ""Sierra wrote her first"
"Eon Productions making the 2006 film ""Casino Royale"". The film stars Daniel Craig as Bond, supported by Eva Green as Vesper Lynd and Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre; Judi Dench returned for her fifth Bond film as Bond's superior, M. ""Casino Royale"" is a reboot, showing Bond at the beginning of his career as a 00-agent and overall stays true to the original novel. Casino Royale (novel) Casino Royale is the first novel by the British author Ian Fleming. Published in 1953, it is the first ""James Bond"" book, and it paved the way for a further eleven novels and"
"World War, Fleming was involved in planning Operation Goldeneye and in the planning and oversight of two intelligence units, 30 Assault Unit and T-Force. His wartime service and his career as a journalist provided much of the background, detail and depth of the James Bond novels. Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, ""Casino Royale"", in 1952. It was a success, with three print runs being commissioned to cope with the demand. Eleven Bond novels and two collections of short stories followed between 1953 and 1966. The novels revolved around James Bond, an officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known"
"an adventure. Shoot to Kill (Cole novel) Shoot to Kill is a novel written by Steve Cole, the first continuation entry in the Young Bond series. Cole took over from Charlie Higson who left the series in 2009 after his final instalment ""A Hard Man to Kill"". ""Shoot to Kill"" features Ian Fleming's spy, James Bond in his teenage years, finding himself troubled in the outskirts of Los Angeles, having recently been expelled from Eton. It was followed Heads You Die in May 2016. Before leaving, a new school friend discovers some shocking film footage which propels James Bond and"
"James Bond (literary character) Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the protagonist of the ""James Bond"" series of novels, films, comics and video games. Fleming wrote twelve Bond novels and two short story collections. His final two books—""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1965) and ""Octopussy and The Living Daylights"" (1966)—were published posthumously. The Bond character is a Secret Service agent, code number 007, residing in London but active internationally. Bond was a composite character who was based on a number of commandos whom"
"Disney-Hyperion re-released ""SilverFin"" and ""Blood Fever"" with new cover art by artist Kev Walker. ""By Royal Command"" and ""SilverFin: The Graphic Novel"" were released in the US on 18 May 2010. With the release of the ""Hurricane Gold"" book TAMBA and Fleming media released the Avenue of Death game which is based on one of the chapters in the book. On 11 August 2008 Puffin Books announced the first Young Bond alternate reality game (ARG), The Shadow War. The online game started on 23 August, when Charlie Higson set the first mission during his appearance at the Edinburgh International Book"
"an imprint of Random House called Red Fox and the book will be released on 5 May 2016. In May 2016, Cole's third book in the series is revealed to be titled ""Strike Lightning"", scheduled to come out sometime during Fall later in the year. In September 2016, the title of Cole's fourth and final Young Bond novel was revealed to be ""Red Nemesis"". Prior to the release of ""SilverFin"", the idea of a Young Bond series had not gone over too well with the fans of the more traditional Bond literature and had come under heavy fire, with some"