The Trigger Mortis Harper paperback is the American printing of Anthony Horowitz’s 2015 continuation novel, which picks up James Bond two weeks after the close of Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger. The catalogue records it as the blue American edition, published by Harper.
In the books
Horowitz was commissioned by the Fleming estate and was given access to unpublished story treatments that Fleming wrote before the films. The story is set in the 1950s: SMERSH plans to sabotage an international Grand Prix, and Bond has to stop it in a game of cat and mouse on the track. It is the first new Bond novel to draw on that recently discovered Fleming material.
Owning it now
Read Goldfinger first. The opening depends on it, and Horowitz’s own favourite Bond novel is the one he picks up from. Choose this edition if you want the American paperback; a UK edition came from Orion. It sits comfortably beside the rest of our books and media, and the book’s world is the one our films section grew out of.
Specifications
| Author | Anthony Horowitz, with original material by Ian Fleming |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Harper (Harper Paperbacks reprint, 2016) |
| Format | Paperback, 320 pages |
| ISBN-13 | 9780062395115 |
| First published | 8 September 2015 |
| Setting | 1950s, two weeks after Goldfinger |
Edition details are on AbeBooks’ listing for the ISBN.
