He's becoming more shallow with each volume, that he is more Super Heroic than the Spy. So where does that really put this book within the Bond timeline?Īnd with that gross mistake, one realizes that Gardner's Bond really doesn't compare with Fleming. They were truly evil visionaries within the series.Īnother problem I had was that Gardner even destroys his own Bond Cannon, by ignoring the fact that he gave Felix a daughter in For Special Services. Not quite the Blofeld, Goldfinger, Drax, or Dr. He's a simple Central American drug lord bent on expanding his dealership into the Pacific and Asian markets, and thus the world. Sanchez seems a shallow, single minded hoodlum, when compared to the other great masterminds that have populated the Bond stories. Where could you go wrong? Well, in Licence to Kill, evidently everywhere, even Gardner, doesn't seem to want to aid this fact in the novelization.
The concept was great that James Bond would throw away everything he's become to begin the single task of simple revenge. came out I thought, this was one of the worst films of the Bond cannon.
#James bond license to kill fun movie#
Recommended for completists only.īefore the movie S.P.E.C.T.R.E. The end showdown with the gas trailers/hand-held missiles/light aeroplane gets even sillier in print. If you saw the movie, you of course know the story - which is very out of character for Bond - even Gardner's Bond. Another idea would be to ignore the book back story (he did it with Milton Krest, dead by rare fish suffocation in 1957, but here very much alive.
Hm, so how do you cope with that? Well, if you are Gardner - in the worst possible way! Just read the damned thing if you must know.
The first obstacle is that the horrible thing that now happens to Felix Leiter in 1987 was borrowed from the story of Live and Let Die, taking place in 1952. Fortunately, Gardner's writing is quite OK by this point in time - unfortunately, the rest was as could be expected.Įven if Gardner obviously took inspiration from the movie Bond already in previous books (not a great idea in my humble opinion) a number of problems of course present themselves when trying to fit one story line in with the other. I was dreading this quite a lot, the immediately preceding Win, Lose or Die took a turn for the worse and my hopes were not high for a novelization of the arguably weakest Bond film ever.
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