JEREMY DUNS ON BOND

New release: Journalist and spy novelist Jeremy Duns recently published an anthology of some of his scholarly pieces about James Bond. Duns On Bond features Rogue Royale, an investigation of Ben Hecht's drafts of Casino Royale, as well as Diamonds in the Rough, a collection of fascinating 007 articles. Jeremy Duns has been an important presence on the Spy Vibe radar over the past six years. In addition to his work as a journalist for major papers, his prolific run of projects has included the first Paul Dark trilogy and the non-fiction books, Dead Drop and News of Devils: The Media and Edward Snowden. Duns On Bond is available in both eBook and paperback editions at Amazon and AmazonUK. There is also a new Paul Dark novel coming soon! More info at the Jeremy Duns website. Press release and book cover collage below. Enjoy!

Duns On Bond is an omnibus edition of two short ebooks by Jeremy Duns: Rogue Royale and Diamonds In The Rough. Both are also individually available for the Kindle. Rogue Royale: In the mid-Sixties, the James Bond films became a global phenomenon as the world thrilled to their spectacular action sequences and cool gadgets. But the films nearly went in a very different direction, with a much darker treatment of Ian Fleming’s first novel by Hollywood’s most acclaimed screenwriter. In this Kindle Single, journalist and spy novelist Jeremy Duns unearths Ben Hecht’s drafts of Casino Royale. Rogue Royale is around 11,000 words long, and builds on his ground-breaking 3,400-word article published in The Sunday Telegraph.

Diamonds In The Rough: So much has been written about James Bond that it seems scarcely imaginable there is any more territory to mine. But in Diamonds In The Rough, Jeremy Duns shares the fruits of several years of research into unexplored aspects of Ian Fleming and his universe, from lost novels and screenplays to hidden inspirations. This short ebook collects articles previously published in The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph and elsewhere. It features six articles:

Gold Dust: The secret history of the lost Bond novel Per Fine Ounce.

Uncut Gem: Uncovering the attempts to film The Diamond Smugglers.

Commando Bond: James Bond's relationship to special forces history.

Black Tie Spy: The MI6 operation that inspired the pretitles scene in Goldfinger.

Smersh vs Smersh: Comparing Fleming's sinister organisation to the real thing.

Bourne Yesterday: The roots of an unusual premise, from You Only Live Twice to wartime thrillers and beyond.

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DEAD DROP

Our man Jeremy Duns has published a new book! Duns has thrilled readers with a trilogy of spy adventures that follow his character Paul Dark. The first in the series, Free Agent, was praised by William Boyd (Any Human Heart, James Bond), who said it was "a wholly engrossing and sophisticated spy novel set against a forgotten corner of 20th century history. Fascinating and compelling." Free Agent was followed by Song of Treason and The Moscow Option. His curiosity and eye for detail have established him as both a prolific writer of fiction and a respected journalist. Over the past few years Duns has uncovered and clarified a number of fascinating stories about historic spy cases and about Spy Vibe favorite novelists like Ian Fleming and Len Deighton. You can find his work in the pages of The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, and many other publications. His new non-fiction book Dead Drop will be released tomorrow. Amazon UK page here. Amazon Kindle page here. Author pages here (UK) and here (US). Simon and Schuster page here.

From the publisher: "In August 1960, a Soviet colonel called Oleg Penkovsky tried to make contact with the West. His first attempt was to approach two American students in Moscow. He handed them a bulky envelope and pleaded with them to deliver it to the American embassy. Inside was an offer to work as a 'soldier-warrior' for the free world. MI6 and the CIA ran Penkovsky jointly, in an operation that ran through the showdown over Berlin and the Cuban Missile Crisis. He provided crucial intelligence, including photographs of rocket manuals that helped Kennedy end the Cuba crisis and avert a war. Codenamed HERO, Penkovsky is widely seen as the most important spy of the Cold War, and the CIA-MI6 operation, run as the world stood on the brink of nuclear destruction, has never been bettered.

"But how exactly did the Russians detect Penkovsky, and why did they let him continue his contact with his handlers for months afterwards? Could it be that the whole Cuban Missile Crisis was part of a Soviet deception operation - and has another betrayal hidden in plain sight all these years? Thrilling, evocative and hugely controversial, Dead Drop blows apart the myths surrounding one of the Cold War's greatest spy operations." A favorite Free Agent cover design below: first edition paperback by Penguin US. 

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