Never Dream of Dying
by Raymond Benson
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Author: Raymond BensonEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Published: 1901-06
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 291
Publisher: Putnam Adult
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Book Review: Exciting, thrilling and Bond all the way!
Summary: 5 Stars
Never Dream Of Dying concludes the three part Union series with a bang! It is quite possibly the best book by Raymond Benson, (except maybe High Time To Kill being better.) It's full of great action, Bond girls, over the top villias and a magnificent plot. The book begins with 007 engaging in a police raid of a suspected Union headquarters that ends up going terribly wrong and killing innocent people. M then gives Bond the assignment to find Le Gerant, the head of the Union. Bond questions a Union member called Yassassin, but he is killed before he can divulge and information he knows. Bond discovers that all the Union members have tattoos on the retinas of their eyes. Bond travels to Paris and meets the suspicious film maker, Leon Essinger and his distant wife and actress, Tylyn Mignonne. Bond finds out that Essinger also has one of the Union tattoos. Bond searches Essingers boat, when a large scale battle breaks out, with Bond appearing to be dead. Bond is alive and kidnapped where he meets a person he thought dead years ago. Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Union-Corse and father of Bond's dead wife, Tracy. Bond discovers that Le Gerant is actually Draco's son. Bond meets up with his old friend, Rene Mathis, who is now working on the case with him. He is captured with Mathis and brutally tortured, by having their retinas burned. Bond escapes in a fury and finds out that Essinger and the Union are planning to explode a bomb t the Cannes film festival, where his new movie is opening, this will kill many members of the British royal family who are at the festival. Bond arrives just in time and stops the bomb, he also discovers that Draco was behind the bombing as well, and Essinger is taken away. Bond rescues Mathis and finds out that Draco, who was once Bond's friend, wants him dead because he thinks Bond was responsible for the deaths of his wife and child, that were in the building of the police raid in the beginning of the story. Bond kills Draco and destroys the helicoptor that Le Gerant was escaping in. This concludes the Union organization and the Union series. One member remains however, Goro Yoshida, who was planning with the Union. Bond deals with him in the next book by Raymond Benson.
Never Dream Of Dying is a magnificent Bond book!
Summary of Never Dream of Dying
A movie is a perfect hiding place for crime, as Bond finds when he uncovers how a film producer is a front for an international crime conspiracy. The Union - already encountered in the latest two Bond adventures High Time to Kill and Doubleshot - reveals its connections to the Cannes Film Festival and the Corsican mafia. Before he has finished, Bond will have to save the producer's exquisite movie-star wife, confront Le Gerant, the brains behind the Union - and settle a score from many years ago.Raymond Benson continues his string of bracing, true-to-tradition James Bond adventures with Never Dream of Dying. As in his last two outings (High Time to Kill and Doubleshot), Bond is up against the Union, a supersecret international cartel of arms dealers and assassins headed by a satisfyingly diabolical mastermind. All the ingredients are there: solo forays into enemy territory, exotic European locales, brushes with death, high-tech gadgetry, a gorgeous femme fatale, and a hair-raising conclusion featuring plenty of explosions and a deadly race against the clock. Benson, a scholar of the original Ian Fleming series who has written four other original Bond thrillers as well as the novelizations of several Bond movies, gets the tone just right. Bond fans won't be disappointed. --Nicholas H. Allison
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