Book review: The World Of GoldenEye by Nicolás Suszczyk
FSWL contributor Brian Smith reviews The World Of GoldenEye written by Nicolás Suszczyk. This book is an affectionate look at the seventeenth James Bond film - a scholarly study of the film’s themes, its place at the end of the cold war and within popular culture. Suszczyk makes some insightful observations. While acknowledging the film is not based on any Ian Fleming book, he notes the similarities which may have influenced the film’s script. Bond’s disabling of Spang’s train in the 1956 novel Diamonds are Forever is similar to Bond stopping the villain’s armoured train, and Fleming’s disfigured villain Sir Hugo Drax from 1955’s Moonraker may have influenced the similarly scarred Alec Trevelyan. It is pleasing to know that this author knows his Fleming.
