James Bond: Pussy Galore returns in new novel
28 May 2015
From the section Entertainment & Arts
Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz will be published by Orion in September
Pussy Galore is to be reunited with James Bond in the superspy’s latest literary outing.
Ian Fleming’s famous femme fatale is back in Anthony Horowitz’s new official Bond novel, Trigger Mortis.
The bestselling author has revealed his new 007 adventure begins in 1957, two weeks after the end of Fleming’s original novel Goldfinger.
The book, out on 8 September, is set against the backdrop of the Soviet-American space race.
As well as Pussy Galore – played by Honor Blackman in 1964’s Goldfinger film – the new book features a new Bond girl called Jeopardy Lane and Jai Seung Sin, a “sadistic, scheming” Korean adversary.
Honor Blackman, who played Pussy Galore, with Goldfinger co-producer Harry Saltzman at the Venice Film Festival in 1965
Trigger Mortis will begin with an original Fleming idea – a motor racing scene written for an unmade TV series.
Horowitz said: “It was always my intention to go back to the true Bond, which is to say, the Bond that Fleming created and it was a fantastic bonus having some original, unseen material from the master to launch my story.”
He went on: “I was so glad that I was allowed to set the book two weeks after my favourite Bond novel, Goldfinger, and I’m …read more
Source:: BBC Entertainment
