Devil May Care (James Bond) |
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 | A good effort - from my limited experience of Bond books, I can't really tell this apart from one. The plot is interesting and perilous and goes places bond never went before (e.g. the Soviet Union and Persia). It also has all most of the ingredients in the right proportions (girls, guns & glamour), which make for a good action adventure, without lapsing into cliche.
A word on the narrator. Jeremy Northam isn't as good as Rufus Sewell is on the other Bond audio books, but is clear and slightly edgy which make for a well spoken and not dull voice, even if it is not overly brimming with character at times...
My one criticism is that the text is a little crude at various points, which I know the Bond books can be, but this one seemed unnecessarily lecherous in its attempt to make Gorner out to be evil. The whole 'parade' and workers harem do add to the vileness of the baddy, but don't really add much to the plot, other than to make the baddy a bit too much of a Stalinist caricature. ... read more.
Written by Sebastian Faulks.
Published 28 May 2008.
Published by Penguin.
rrp £18.99.
320 pages Hardcover.
ISBN: 0718153766
ISBN-13: 9780718153762 | |
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