Forever and a Death

About this book

The Bond That Never Was Two decades ago the producers of the James Bond movies hired legendary crime novelist Donald E. Westlake to come up with a story for the next Bond film. The plot Westlake dreamed up about a Western businessman seeking revenge after being kicked out of Hong Kong when the island was returned to Chinese rule had all the elements of a classic Bond adventure but political concerns kept it from being made. Never one to let a good story go to waste Westlake wrote an original novel based on the premise instead a novel he never published while he was alive. Now nearly a decade after Westlakes death Hard Case Crime is proud to give that novel its first publication ever together with a brand new afterword by one of the movie producers describing the projects genesis and to give fans their first taste of the Westlake-scripted Bond that might have been.