Raymond Benson
Autore di Zero Minus Ten
Sull'Autore
Raymond Benson is the author of Never Dream of Dying, Doubleshot, High Time to Kill, The Facts of Death, and Zero Minus Ten, and the novelizations of The World Is Not Enough and Tomorrow Never Dies. A director of the Ian Fleming Foundation, he lives and works in the Chicago area.
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Opere di Raymond Benson
James Bond: Choice of Weapons: Three 007 Novels: The Facts of Death; Zero Minus Ten; The Man with the Red Tattoo (James… (2010) 26 copie
Chicken Pick-Up 2 copie
Man Witb the Red Tattoo, The 1 copia
Dying Light: Nightmare Row 1 copia
O mundo não chega - 007 1 copia
007: la morte può attendere 1 copia
007: I sogni non uccidono 1 copia
Rape 1 copia
The Facts of Death [short story] 1 copia
Rape Single Issue 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1955-09-06
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Midland, Texas, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Midland, Texas, USA (birth)
Odessa, Texas, USA - Istruzione
- University of Texas, Austin
- Attività lavorative
- author
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 60
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 2,441
- Popolarità
- #10,512
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 90
- ISBN
- 251
- Lingue
- 11
- Preferito da
- 2
Zero Minus Ten by Raymond Benson is the first novel by the author featuring Ian Fleming’s James Bond. Mr. Benson is a published author and the first American to write a James Bond book.
Agent 007 is given ten days to investigate a series of terrorist attacks in Hong Kong before it is going to be transferred to China. At the same time, a nuclear bomb has gone off in the Australian outback.
Bond investigates Guy Thackeray, a British shipping magnate, and Li Xu Nan, a head of a Chinese Triad. With the help of T.Y. Woo, a contact in Hong Kong, Bond manages to put Li Xu Nan in his debt and go to Australia to investigate Thackeray’s company, EurAsia.
I have enjoyed most of Ian Fleming’s Bond books, as well as the James Bond graphic novels. I’ve read this book a while ago though and these are my thoughts from that time.
Zero Minus Ten by Raymond Benson an O.K. Bond screenplay, but a bit disappointing book. It seems to me the author was writing the book with a movie in mind, what happened to the aging secret agent going through a mid-life crisis? What happened to the kinky, chauvinistic, alcoholic, cold-blooded killer we all know and love?
I do enjoy the Bond movies, like many I’ve seen them before reading the books. However, the literary Bond is quite different from the movie Bond. This book is taking place in the movie universe, ignoring the changes made by other authors to the literary character.
The narrative is missing the amalgam of details and storytelling, instead focusing a lot of it on action scenes for the big screen – which doesn’t usually translate well to books. Some of the writing becomes sloppy and superficial at times. In other books, we got into Bond’s head, this time we’re witnessing everything from the outside – like in a movie.
On the other hand, the heavy details in the book take the reader completely out of the story. I tried to understand how to play mahjong, but the description was convoluted. I did, however, appreciate the history lesson and context of Eastern politics.
I liked the story, it’s solid even if it is predictable, and I enjoyed reading the book, I guess it’s not the Bond I’m used to. If you are looking for a nice, light, Sunday afternoon read, this is it.… (altro)