The World Is Not Enough
by Raymond Benson
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Author: Raymond BensonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-10-01
ISBN: 042517350X
Number of pages: 247
Publisher: Berkley
Book Reviews of The World Is Not Enough
Book Review: Let's all hope the movie is this terrific!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am on record as trashing High Time to Kill (see reviews for that book) along with vowing to wait for the Benson novels in paperback (if not used papaerback). Well, I bought this paperback new and would have paid for a hard cover of this story's quality. Benson is terrific on this novelization. I'm sure there is a lot of extra info that will clarify parts of the movie when I see it. The rumored "airhead" personality of Christmas Jones does not come through in the book and I was afraid that the return to "sexpot" Bond girls would send the modernized Bond into a tailspin. One especially bright point is the meatier role for M. I think Benson likes writing her and it shows. For fans who haven't followed every plot point posted on the web, I'm sure there will be more than a few surprises. The plot-Bond is assigned to bodyguard Elektra King, the daughter of a recently-assassinated oil magnate. Elektra has already been the target of kidnappers led by the villainous Renard, a terrorist who has no pain center. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think a "painless" killer was written into the Tomorrow Never Dies plot, but was scrapped after the novelizatioon had already been written) Great gadgets, great plot, great girls,a surprise development with M, and an atomic bomb stolen from a foremer Soviet Republic make for an exciting and riveting thriller.
Summary of The World Is Not Enough
Greed, revenge, world domination through the power of oil, high-techterrorism... Only some of the ingredients of this latest 007 adventure which
begins outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, continues with a
spectacular high-speed boat chase up the Thames and progresses through the highlands of Scotland before Bond faces an avalanche in the Caucasus
Mountains and a potential nuclear explosion in Turkey.
Sir Robert King, a wealthy oil tycoon, is murdered in an unprecedented
bombing at MI6's London headquarters. M takes the attack personally and
sends James Bond to protect King's beautiful and fiery daughter Elektra in
Turkey. For the man responsible for the bombing is 'Renard', a cruel and
cunning terrorist who once attempted to kidnap Elektra King and hold her to
ransom.
With nuclear weapons expert Dr. Chrismas Jones at his side, Bond travels to
the Caspian Sea and Istanbul where a former enemy becomes a formidable ally before the final dramatic confrontation in the claustrophobic confines of a nuclear submarine beneath the surface of the Bosporus.
The World is Not Enough takes James Bond to new levels of danger, intrigue and non-stop action.
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