Book review: Forever and A Day, by Anthony Horowitz

I came to Bond early, thanks to a review of, I think, Live and Let Die by Raymond Chandler in the Sunday Times. Ian Fleming was the paper’s foreign manager, and Chandler was a friend of his, but that’s no reason to think Chandler’s approval insincere. Thereafter I bought each Bond novel on publication, and continued to enjoy them, even while recognising that the books got worse after Blofeld and Spectre replaced Smersh as chief villain. The first films were likewise enjoyable, those that followed much more caper than thriller, and I haven’t seen a new one for years.