{"product_id":"forever-and-a-death-9781785654237","title":"Forever and a Death","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646973665333,"sku":"ByrdShop_1785654233","price":22.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781785654237.jpg?v=1781684211","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/forever-and-a-death-9781785654237","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}