I love James Bond novels and usually they are great reading. Sadly “Carte Blanche” doesn’t come across as one. Deaver was a good choice but he lost me when he told early in the work the age of this James Bond. From then on I had a hard time believing that this is the same character who faced such enemies as Goldfinger or Bloefeld. I found “Carte Blanche” to be a ho hum addition to the James Bond series of novels by Ian Fleming, Robert Markham, John Gardner, and Raymond Benson.
Carte Blanche The New James Bond Novel by
Jeffery Deaver
Pocket Books
1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
9781451629354, $9.99, www.amazon.com www.simonandschuster.com
