#Licence to kill movie#

If you saw the movie, you of course know the story - which is very out of character for Bond - even Gardner's Bond. Another idea would be to ignore the book back story (he did it with Milton Krest, dead by rare fish suffocation in 1957, but here very much alive. Hm, so how do you cope with that? Well, if you are Gardner - in the worst possible way! Just read the damned thing if you must know. The first obstacle is that the horrible thing that now happens to Felix Leiter in 1987 was borrowed from the story of Live and Let Die, taking place in 1952.

#Licence to kill movie#

Fortunately, Gardner's writing is quite OK by this point in time - unfortunately, the rest was as could be expected.Įven if Gardner obviously took inspiration from the movie Bond already in previous books (not a great idea in my humble opinion) a number of problems of course present themselves when trying to fit one story line in with the other.

Even if Gardner obviously took inspiration from the movie Bond already in previous books (not a great idea in my humble opinion) a number of problems of course present themselves when trying to I was dreading this quite a lot, the immediately preceding Win, Lose or Die took a turn for the worse and my hopes were not high for a novelization of the arguably weakest Bond film ever. Fortunately, Gardner's writing is quite OK by this point in time - unfortunately, the rest was as could be expected. I was dreading this quite a lot, the immediately preceding Win, Lose or Die took a turn for the worse and my hopes were not high for a novelization of the arguably weakest Bond film ever.