Review by C.J. Bunce Goldfinger. It’s surprising that a novel, a word, a song, and a character James Bond is so well known for didn’t arrive until Ian Fleming’s seventh novel in the series. Goldfinger is a novel to revisit, one of the better of Fleming’s efforts, defining so much about what we know as […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce First published in March 1956, Diamonds Are Forever is Ian Fleming’s fourth James Bond novel. This time Bond is tasked by M to follow the route of diamond smugglers transporting stones into England from Africa and on to the United States. He replaces a small-time transporter and is partnered with the […]
Review by C.J. Bunce Twenty years ago this weekend, the sovereignty of Hong Kong was handed back to China by the United Kingdom as the last act of the old British Empire, without incident. The anniversary of this transfer of power coincides with the release by Hard Case Crime of one of crime fiction readers’ […]
Review by C.J. Bunce At the beginning of Daniel Craig’s first foray as James Bond in 2006’s Casino Royale, Craig redefined Bond as viewers were taken back to his first kill, the event that earned Bond his 00 status. The scene instantly set the standard for the modern fight-or-die scene. This is the exact level […]
Review by C.J. Bunce The fifth James Bond novel, From Russia with Love, was a popular mainstream read back in 1957. One of President Kennedy’s favorite books, the film adaptation would be the last movie he would ever see before that fateful trip to Dallas in 1963. From Russia with Love reflects a lot about the Cold […]
Review by C.J. Bunce As much as it is adventurous to travel the world by yourself, living place to place and job to job, it is also dangerous. Horror movies like Saw, Vacancy, and Psycho illustrate that worst of scenarios—traveling in unfamiliar territory and making a wrong turn—that single bad decision that could end it […]
Review by C.J. Bunce If you’re like this reader, you probably thought you read the last of the catalog of Michael Crichton novels when you finished his last novel, Micro, reviewed here at borg.com last year. But what if there were eight Crichton novels that suddenly appeared, as if by magic, that you had never heard of? The […]
The last day of the year is finally here, and with that the last of our reviews of the best content of 2014. We’ve previewed comic books each month thanks to publishers like Dynamite Comics, Dark Horse Comics, IDW Publishing, BOOM! Studios, and Image. We sample the best of all that Marvel and DC Comics has to […]
Review by C.J. Bunce You may find Ian Fleming’s third James Bond novel, Moonraker, to be a surprising, refreshing read for several reasons. First, it is new to those who have only watched the movie adaptations. Moonraker the novel has very little relationship to the 11th Bond film, starring Roger Moore, where Moore’s Bond is trying to prevent a global conspiracy […]
Review by C.J. Bunce I was given Michael Dibdin’s series of Aurelio Zen novels as a gift after I was blown away by the short BBC TV series Zen starring Rufus Sewell, my current pick for an ideal future James Bond. Because of Sewell’s performance I compared his Zen to the original Zen in Dibdin’s first Zen […]
