Resplendent in a thick, glossy jacket (featuring, of course the ‘JB 007’ DB5, axle-mounted tyre-shredders well and truly deployed), the book is split into eight different sections, focusing on Bond creator Ian Fleming, the first film, Dr No from 1962, then From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, then, finally, Diamonds Are Forever.
But none I’ve encountered have come close to the grandeur of the latest, ‘Spy Octane, The Vehicles of James Bond, Volume 1’.
Bond: “Do you expect me to talk?” Goldfinger: “No Mr Bond, I expect you to die.” Great lines, great shot.
Spy Octane lifts the lid, for the first time, on the complete story of all four DB5s used in the making and promotion of Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965).
On the following page, for example, is the famous image of Bond, spreadeagled and strapped to a table, with Auric Goldfinger grinning as the laser closes in.
