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Forever and a Death

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.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 464
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781785654237
  • Genres
  • thriller, fiction, crime, pulp, adventure, mystery, espionage
  • Release date
  • 2017