Drum roll please...

... and the title of Double O Book 3 is...

Dear Reader,

One of the most daunting and exciting aspects of writing James Bond is choosing a title. Ian Fleming was a master at titles. The lyrical phrases: From Russia With Love, You Only Live Twice, Live and Let Die… The mysterious one word titles, where it’s all vibes and who cares if you don’t know what it means: Thunderball, Goldfinger, Octopussy… Bond titles are a genre of their own, iconic, cultural shorthands that you know even if you’ve never read or watched Bond. No pressure then.

The title of Book 3 was elusive for a long time. It changed and changed. Then, on literally the last day of writing, I realised it was right there. A motif throughout the book. My all-time favourite Fleming image, threaded across the trilogy. A metaphor for our hero’s state of mind in this final instalment.

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If you’re a long-term reader of Bond, you’ll recognise the line. It’s from the first Bond book I devoured, aged twelve, From Russia With Love:

‘In the centre of Bond was a hurricane room, the kind of citadel found in old-fashioned houses in the tropics. These rooms are small, strongly built cells in the heart of the house, in the middle of the ground floor and sometimes dug down into its foundations. To this cell the owner and his family retire if the storm threatens to destroy the house, and they stay there until the danger is past. Bond went to his hurricane room only when the situation was beyond his control and no other possible action could be taken.’

Fleming takes us into the mind of 007 and what is left of him when all the cars, gadgets and guns are gone. And that’s where we find him now…

James Bond returns in Hurricane Room, and the Double O agents make their last stand.

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The return of 007

Agent 003, Joanna Harwood, has finally found James Bond after nearly two years of searching. All she has to do is get him out of Russia and convince him he can trust her again.

A mission for revenge

But Bond trusts no one. And he wants revenge on Mora, the monstrous figure at the head of Rattenfänger – a terrorist organisation with links to the past.

The final showdown

MI6’s Double O section is in pieces. Moneypenny is captured. 000 has switched sides. And all of Rattenfänger’s plans for hijacking the cyber-intelligence of the West are finally about to be realised.

The remaining Double Os must work together – and figure out which of them are still loyal…

I can’t wait to share this one with you! It was the hardest to write but it’s become my favourite of the trilogy.

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From Kim, With Love x