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Author: Jim Hatfield Title: The Killing Zone Publisher:   Charter Country: UK Date: 1985 Format: Paperback Genre: Fiction, Thriller ISBN-10: 0425065340 Rating: Rate Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  2 Want Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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The Killing Zone is an unauthorised James Bond novel by Jim Hatfield. It was privately published in paperback in 1985 under the guise that it was officially sanctioned by Glidrose Publications (later Ian Fleming Publications), the company that held the rights to publish James Bond literary works.

The inside cover states "Copyright 1985 by Glidrose Publications Limited and Jim Hatfield," although Gildrose had nothing to do with the publication and was probably unaware of its existence. At the time the official author of the Bond continuation series was John Gardner, who wrote the series from 1981 to 1996.

The Killing Zone was first published in the United Kingdom as "A Charter Book" but it is no longer in print. The text is available on the intranet here.

The novel begins with the murder of Bill Tanner by Klaus Doberman, a German-South American drug lord. Much like he does after Felix Leiter's maiming in the film Licence to Kill, Bond goes off for revenge.

From the back cover of the book:

In this new high voltage spy thriller, Secret Agent 007 must "liquidate" ruthless billionaire kingpin Klaus Doberman. But James Bond has his hands full as he battles a luscious lady assassin who offers lethal love Russian style and a slit-eyed Oriental sadist who is an elusive and deadly Ninja. Aided by his sex-galore confederate Lotta Head and his old CIA buddy Felix Leiter, 007 is pitted against Klaus Doberman in his heavily armed fortress high in the Mexican Sierra Madres... in the most bloodcurdling death duel in the great Bond saga.

A very informative article about the book can be found at bondfanevents (www - available as of 13 February 2020). It was written by Greg Bechtloff (The Las Vegas Review-Journal, Dallas Morning News, The Independent). Matt Sherman and Nicholas Kincaid also contributed to the article.



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23skidoo 6th Aug 2020		The notes say this book was privately published, but Charter Books was a major company that (among other things) had the licence to reissue Leslie Charteris' Simon Templar (Saint) novels in the 1970s and early 80s.

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