Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: The Hardboiled James Bond?

From: William Denton ( buff@pobox.com)
Date: 24 Apr 2002


On 24 April 2002, Anderson, Erick (ETW) wrote:

: ... calls headquarters to say, "The bitch is dead."

There's a line somewhere between the hardboiled and sadism (with a good helping of fetishism thrown in) and more often than not I think Bond crosses it. It's been a while since I read the books (except for the golf scene in GOLDFINGER, which I reread recently), but I remember Bond as having a cold, sneering sort of toughness.

Bill

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