The book also features the (retroactive) first appearance of his new personal car, a Bentley Mk VI. Cool Car: Bond drives a Maserati 250f, one of the most beautiful racing cars ever built, around the Nürburgring.Cool Bike: A 650CC Triumph Thunderbird, which Jeopardy Lane and Bond use to chase Sin's subway train bomb.Continuity Nod: Besides ones to Goldfinger, to which this is an Immediate Sequel, Bond notes he lost his taste for watching missile launches after he was entirely too close to one.Chekhov's Skill: Jeopardy Lane's past as a fairground Globe of Death driver turns out to be useful later.
Buried Alive: For the traditional Fleming-esque torture scene, Bond is buried alive.Big Bad: Jason Sin, aka Sin Jai-Seong, a Korean businessman with a grudge against.Once she gets on a motorcycle, though, her past as a Globe of Death motorcyclist comes in handy. Action Girl: Jeopardy Lane is notably not this early on, being a Treasury agent way out of her depth.But a Soviet plot to kill a racing driver leads Bond to discover something far bigger, which puts the future of the U.S. So Bond jumps at the chance to take a mission involving one of his favourite pastimes: motor-racing. It's 1957, The Space Race is heating up, and James Bond and Pussy Galore are living together in Bond's flat. The original pitch was titled "Murder on Wheels", which becomes a chapter title in the novel. It contains small amounts of material originally written by Ian Fleming, from a series of short pitches for a potential TV series that never was. A James Bond novel published in 2015, and written by Anthony Horowitz.
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