The story, called "Murder on Wheels," was originally a scene composed for a 007 TV series that never was. He's dipping into some unpublished writing from Fleming himself - a short story that drops Bond into a high-stakes Formula One race. Horowitz won't be working entirely from scratch. "He's best known for a series about a teenaged spy named Alex Rider," Neda notes, "and for two novels that continue the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, also authorized by the original author's estate." That role may very well be filled by a new character of Horowitz's making: Jeopardy Lane, who will star opposite 007, Galore and Jai Seung Sin - a "sadistic, scheming Korean adversary hell-bent on vengeance." (A betting man might pick Jai to be the new book's lead villain.) The novel's action picks up just a couple of weeks after the end ofĪs NPR's Neda Ulaby reports, this is Horowitz's first Bond book and he's no stranger to working in classic franchises. "It was great fun revisiting the most famous Bond girl of all," Horowitz wrote in his announcement, "although she is by no means the only dangerous lady in
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