Double or Nothing has plenty of feints and misdirection and at times I was anything but certain who was on the side of the angels and who had done a deal with the devil. James Bond is presumed missing, and we have new agents trying to figure out what really happened to Bond and flush out the mole amongst them.

There are repeat characters such as Moneypenny, M, Q, (now a supercomputer) and CIA operative Felix Leiter. The fate of the world rests in their hands…Tech billionaire Sir Bertram Paradise claims he can reverse the climate crisis and save the planet. So we are introduced to another 4 MI6 agents from the "00" team, odd that no 00 seems to go beyond the number 10?

There’s too much book, it’s 415 pages and three different primary characters it’s shoving in your face. Ik kan enkel de échte Bond-fans aanraden om te stoppen na het laatste echte Bond verhaal, ook al zijn die laatste verhalen al lang niet meer door Fleming zelf geschreven.

They’d do well to learn from this and have Bond being Bond and introducing new characters which break from the white male stereotype.C) which partially relates back to the indecisive grounding of point 2, absolute zero is unattainable as the amount of work required increases the closer you get, it would therefore require an infinite amount of work to achieve. Buiten deze brede achtergrondkennis over klimaathysterie (die voor waar en apocalytpisch wordt aangenomen), quantum computers (waar de schrijfster heel wat jaren in de toekomst vertoeft), big data en master of the universe miljardairs, is en blijft het een thriller met een aantal al dan niet gemeende romantische scenes. I offer the above in case it helps anybody decide whether or not they want to invest their time and/or money in reading the book. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password.

And they’re all living under the shadow of the day 003 limped back from a mission minus their friend and mentor, the Double O section’s most famous asset, James Bond, the legendary 007.I assume Sherwood thought this was clever, so we have satellites named Icarus (Die Another Day), a celloist assassin (The Living Daylights), a casino in Macau (Skyfall) and on and on. I was looking forward to reading this book as a new development in the Bond canon and was happy with the new additions to the roster of Double OO agents reflecting as they did the realities of modern entertainment and society. Double Or Nothing, written by Kim Sherwood, is the first of a new 'Double O' James Bond book trilogy series.

The writing style is disjointed, with frequent jumps back to the past in the middle of action scenes, or bizarre asides that offer nothing but needless exposition. However, in other ways Kim Sherwood misses the mark I found I don’t gel with it in the same way as the Ian Fleming originals.The hand positions that Harwood is described as maintaining during pursuit driving would not afford good control of the vehicle. The start of a brand-new trilogy following MI6’s Double 0 agents with a license to kill, that blows the world of James Bond wide open! Q , the previous master of gadgetry who provided various devices and weapons to the Double-00's, is now an all-knowing and all-seeing quantum computer. Double Or Nothing is the first in a trilogy of novels, licenced by Ian Fleming Publications, featuring agents from the Double O section. Some examples here: the Miss Moneypenny in Double or Nothing is now the Head of the Double 00 Section in place of M.