Forever and a Death (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781785654237)

The Bond That Never Was

Two decades ago, the producers of the James Bond movies hired legendary crime novelist Donald E. Westlake to come up with a story for the next Bond film. The plot Westlake dreamed up - about a Western businessman seeking revenge after being kicked out of Hong Kong when the island was returned to Chinese rule - had all the elements of a classic Bond adventure, but political concerns kept it from being made. Never one to let a good story go to waste, Westlake wrote an original novel based on the premise instead - a novel he never published while he was alive.

Now, nearly a decade after Westlake's death, Hard Case Crime is proud to give that novel its first publication ever, together with a brand new afterword by one of the movie producers describing the project's genesis, and to give fans their first taste of the Westlake-scripted Bond that might have been.

Author: Donald E. Westlake
ISBN-10: 1785654233
ISBN-13: 9781785654237
Publisher: Hard Case Crime
Language: English
Published: 06/13/2017
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2017
Publishers Weekly 04/17/2017
Booklist 05/01/2017 pg. 20
Library Journal 06/01/2017