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“It is 1952. Felix has lost his job at the CIA and finds himself working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. What starts as a simple surveillance job turns into a matter of life and death when Felix stumbles upon a murder and a cabal of spies embedded in Manhattan. Hired to transport the impossibly beautiful and impossibly secretive Dora from New York to Texas, Felix is thrust into a non-stop adventure, where danger and deceit lie in wait around every bend in the road.”
One James Bond Character Just Got a Brand New Spinoff — With a Twist
The other secret agent from the 007 canon is back.
- Ryan Britt
- Mar 28, 2025 7:24 AM EDT
While James Bond fans wonder about the future of the 007 franchise on screen, the adventures of Bond and his allies have continued, almost nonstop, elsewhere. In the world of books, Bond novels have been published almost continuously, written by a variety of different authors for decades. While Ian Fleming created the original canon of Bond, in twelve novels and two short story collections, other writers, starting with Kingsley Amis in 1968, have continued the literary tradition of everyone’s favorite spy.
Since then, those various books represent an entire universe of different Bond books, including novels focused on other Double O agents, books about Miss Moneypenny, and even mysteries centered on gadget-master Q. And now, one more fantastic Bond character is getting his own set of adventures. The name is Leiter, Felix Leiter.
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The CIA agent who teamed up with Bond countless times is getting his own new series of books. Ian Fleming Publications announced this week that author Raymond Benson—who has previously penned several Bond books—has returned to the wold of 007 to write a new book about Felix Leiter, called The Hook and the Eye.https://www.instagram.com/p/DHqki0eqLKs/embed/captioned/?
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The title refers to the fact that in the novels, Leiter ends up having a hook replace one of his hands, after being brutally maimed in the book version of Live and Let Die. (The movies dramatized this moment in the 1989 film Licence to Kill.)
Played by various actors over the years, from Jack Lord to David Hedison and most recently, Jeffrey Wright, the character of Leiter holds a very special place in the 007 mythos. The new book will be set in the year 1952, between the events of the book versions of Live and Let Die and Diamonds Are Forever. Those were the second and fourth Bond books ever published and mark Lieter’s second and third appearances in the book series overall, following his debut in the first book, Casino Royale.
Here’s the official synopsis
“It is 1952. Felix has lost his job at the CIA and finds himself working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. What starts as a simple surveillance job turns into a matter of life and death when Felix stumbles upon a murder and a cabal of spies embedded in Manhattan. Hired to transport the impossibly beautiful and impossibly secretive Dora from New York to Texas, Felix is thrust into a non-stop adventure, where danger and deceit lie in wait around every bend in the road.”
Ian Fleming publications will release installments of The Hook and the Eye as ebook “episodes” starting May 27th. Each ebook “episode” will contain four chapters, and the entire book will conclude on September 30 with the 10th and final installment. After that, the entire novel will be published as a physical paperback on October 2.
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