Will James survive and become the legend that is Bond, James Bond?
By Tim / Spinebreakers Crew
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Silverfin, written by Charlie Higson is the first of four of the young bond books. It is set in the 1930’s and shows the reader that before the man was a boy, a boy untouched by violence, guns and evil master minds with white cats on swivel chairs. It shows the reader a new angle of the young specialist agent.
The book starts with James Bond in Eton school, bullied by a young blonde American who’s a spitting image of his father, Lord Randolph Hellebore. James thought the only problems he’d have from the Hellebore family would be a few hard kicks and punches but little did he know he would be lead to a castle in Scotland shrouded in mystery to investigate the disappearance of a boy that vanished from the face of the earth.
Charlie Higson provides the missing gap which is the child and the teenager before the suave adult Sean Connery we first see in Dr No.
Charlie Higson’s courageous and sharp writing with a blend of adventure and thriller makes this is a great read for any ages and Bond fans alike.
What’s Lord Hellebore really up to? What’s the mystery of Lake Silverfin? And will James survive and become the legend that is Bond, James Bond.