FICTION
Released: Sept. 6, 1994
"If you can swallow Pierce Brosnan as 007, you won't have any trouble getting this down."
James Bond saves the world from criminal genius, Take 13 (Take 27, if you count Ian Fleming's original series): an unapologetic nostalgia piece by Fleming's sturdy successor.
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FICTION
Released: May 5, 1997
The author of The James Bond Bedside Companion (not reviewed) pits Agent 007 against worthy Pacific Basin opponents in a more than serviceable first thriller that could give Ian Fleming's ultracool hero yet another new lease on life.
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FICTION
Released: June 15, 1998
"A postmodern treat for fans and newcomers that lovingly, if not ironically, duplicates a formula so familiar that originality would be sacrilege. (First serial rights to Playboy)"
The fate of the world, and James Bond, are in capable hands in this second 007 adventure from Benson (Zero Minus Ten, 1997).
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2000
" Nifty bullfighting scenes do not redeem an otherwise cliché-cluttered narrative. For die-hard fans only."
The creakiest exercise yet in American Bond fan Benson's postmodern resurrection of Ian Fleming's peerless killer spy, has an embarrassingly witless 007 going rogue to fight a dastardly multinational crime cartel.
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2001
"Flaccid prose and creaky dialogue no worse than Fleming's. Benson seems to have hit his stride in this, his liveliest and nastiest Bond book yet."
After wobbly attempts to meld the quipping movie Bonds with the brooding British knight of the John Gardner stories, Benson brings the ageless superspy back to his Eurotrash roots--the French Riviera and the casino at Monte Carlo.
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FICTION
Released: June 10, 2002
"Benson's prose is as limp as ever ("Tokyo lay before him, a sprawling, metropolitan machine")--but for mindless escapism, Bond suffices when nothing else will."
James Bond, British Intelligence's immortal action hero, returns to Japan to stop a Mishima-quoting crimelord whose killer mosquitoes threaten to disrupt a G8 conference, and worse.
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