James stubbornly refuses to accept the school’s official conclusion that the death was an accident inadvertently caused by James being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Right before Christmas Break, James witnesses the death of a fellow student engaged in suspicious mechanical experiments with a professor. Now with this latest installment, we find James shortly after his first term at Fettes College in Scotland where he finishes his education according to Fleming. The series has followed young James throughout the 1930s starting at about the point when he was about 13 with Charlie Higson’s SilverFin. For those who are unfamiliar with the series, it attempts to fill in the gaps of Bond’s childhood using only the meager details that Fleming included in the his Bond novels, particularly from the obituary featured in the novel You Only Live Twice. The Young Bond books themselves are a truly ambitious undertaking. Cole took over the Young Bond series from Charlie Higson who ended his tenure with By Royal Command which details the events surrounding Bond’s expulsion from Eton. Steve Cole’s 3rd Young Bond book Strike Lightning comes right off the heels of his second effort Heads You Die.
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