Review: "All We Need Is"........"A View To A Kill "..........
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 24, 2013
Author, Damian Stevenson of the very successful and my favorite horror/thriller novel "Solstice" wrote an excellent espionage, action/adventure..While this is not my usual genre I read...I was captivated from the first chapter and the entire novel was almost like watching a movie...Though "Ian Flemming" is not "James Bond" I could say he lived up to the standards and past the test with flying "British" colors....Great characterization...Intriguing and fun plot line set in the 1940's and WWII.."Operation Armada" gets underway and into full non-stop action..In one scene Flemming is hanging out of a plane taking spy pictures with guns returning fire...Then next they are back at home safely and Ian Flemming is developing his own "pictures in a dark room"...I read for entertainment value..All I was missing was a great background musical score..I loved Ian Flemming's sarcastic, witty humor when around is royal, uppercrust family..His Mother thinks he just has a desk job and is not as special as his Secret Agent older brother Peter...But little do they know that he works for the naval intelligence and he goes by 17F..We have Godfry as "M",  Miss Paddy Blythe, as "Miss Moneypenny" and Lord Suffolk as "Q"....Plenty of fancy gadgets for that time period, shoelaces with blades to be used as a razor sharp garrote, poisonous cyanide cigarettes, coin that's a hidden compass, and radio transmitter sewn into his suit..Our evil villian, Admiral Jean Louis Darlan................Of course, plenty guns of "Babes"...All we need now is "A View To a Kill".....