Book review: ‘Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born’
After Andrew Lycett’s exhaustive biography of Ian Fleming (which is 20 years old, believe it or not), you may wonder what is left to learn of James Bond’...
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My Seven Wishes for the Next James Bond Movie
I enjoyed SPECTRE, I really did. I have seen it three times so far and it improves with every viewing. SPECTRE gave me many things I had wanted to see in a Bond...
JBR Profile: Jeffrey Westhoff – Fleming and Me – James Bond Radio
JBR Profile: Jeffrey Westhoff – Fleming and Me – James Bond Radio The website for the terrific James Bond Radio podcast graciously allowed me to wri...
Film review: ‘SPECTRE’
SPECTRE, the latest James Bond movie and the fourth to star Daniel Craig as 007, offers many pleasures, especially a sense of fun missing from Bond movies for...
Creating Larissa, or Trying to Think Like a Teenage Girl
My teen spy novel, The Boy Who Knew Too Much, is out. It has been for a while, since June 1. It has, thankfully, been garnering a lot of praise. Of all t...
Jeffrey Westhoff: Saluting my influences
Jeffrey Westhoff: Saluting my influences In this article for Crimespree Magazine’s website, I explain how Ian Fleming, Adam Hall (Elleston Trevor) and Robert Lo...
The Boy Who Knew Too Much
The Boy Who Knew Too Much One of my fellow intrigue authors, Jeff Markowitz, allowed me to take over his blog today to blather about “The Boy Who Knew Too Much,...
Book review: Catching up with ‘Catching Bullets’
The first thing I noticed when I saw the cover to Mark O’Connell’s book Catching Bullets was its subtitle: Memoirs of a Bond Fan. I thought, You can do t...
Dedication and Acknowledgements
I may not be able to reveal the cover for The Boy Who Knew Too Much yet, but I don’t see why I can’t offer a sneak preview at the dedication and acknowledgement...
Book Review: Young Bond goes Hollywood in ‘Shoot to Kill’
Many readers, including myself, were nervous about the handover of the Young Bond books from Charlie Higson to Steve Cole. Higson’s five books were superb, much...