With a Mind to Kill (2022) by Anthony Horowitz
This review requires a bit of context and backstory. Apologies for my long- windedness as this unexpectedly turned into an essay on my love affair with Ian Fleming’s gift to espionage fiction literature. If you prefer, scroll down f or the review proper without enjoying my trip down memory lane. It's marked where to start reading... I was raised on James Bond and I don’t mean that in a loose, metaphorical sense. My father was a bona fide 007 aficionado who went out of his way to proselytize me into the ranks while still a very young boy. I’m told I was taken to the theater to see Thunderball on its first theatrical run at the age of 3; I have zero memory of this, of course. I have a slight memory of seeing You Only Live Twice as a 5-year old. However, seeing a double-feature rerelease of those two films as a 6-year old is vividly in my memory, as is a double-feature of Dr. No and From Russia Wit...