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Title: Double or Die
Subtitle: Young Bond Series
Author: Charlie Higson
Narrator: Charlie Higson
Format: Abridged
Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-03-07
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10
Publisher's Summary:
Kidnap. Violence. Explosions. Murder. No ordinary weekend. But then, James Bond is no ordinary boy.
In a North London cemetery, a professor is kidnapped at gunpoint. A suspicious letter crammed with cryptic clues arrives at Eton. To decipher the deadly mystery, James Bond must take a series of dangerous gambles. Once the code is cracked, he has just 48 hours to save the professor from the dark forces that threaten to destroy them both. And if the professor can't escape, it's not only his future under threat. It's the rest of the world's.
Members Reviews:
Page turner all the way!
This is a review from my 13 year old son.
This book has been one of the best books I've read so far.
I have been reading this series and this book is one of my favorites. It keeps you on your toes though out most of the book, and when it's not, you can tell its right around the corner. Sometimes the plot twists are a bit too predictable. The story progresses quite nicely; in the beginning it gives you little bits and pieces of the story, exploring the third person limited views of three different characters. Obviously, the main character is a young James Bond who has a very adventurous spirit and a weak spot for danger, so he's always getting into sticky situations. These situations are always able to be solved by James and some of his friends, like his friend Pritpal who gets dragged into this adventure and has to assist James in this suspenseful journey. Like when they have to venture into a grave yard at night to look for clues left by the professor, who has been kidnapped, leading them to his location. James and Pritpal get separated and he ends up in a place where he has become an urban legend. All the people in the town were willing to help him, because they had heard about the heroic feats that he had accomplished. Like when he took down a dictator that was being a stereo-typical dictator and pretending to do good for the people but is really taking all the wealth for himself and his close friends. James was able to make the entire empire collapse by sabotaging one of the dictators plans for complete control, not to mention the dam that he caused to fall on the dictators house. Overall I thought this was a great book for intermediate readers looking for a, "keep you on your toes," kind of novel. I can't recall any serious spelling or grammatical errors, so very well written and revised. I definitely recommend this book to almost everybody.
Young Bond gets smart
Charlie Higson's Double or Die is the pivot on which the Young Bond series turns. Double or Die both pulls from past books and points to the future. Where SilverFin infused Bond with his fearless instinct and Blood Fever developed his brawn, Double or Die works his mind (and ours).
Thematically, Double or Die is an adventure of the mind. Bond and his band of friends must decrypt puzzles and clues contained within a mysterious cipher sent by a kidnapped professor. Higson plays the motif throughout as references to skulls and the brain abound. Where Blood Fever was bright and expansive, Double or Die is dark and contained. While this may make it a lesser Bondian adventure for some, the smaller scale allows Higson to work in greater texture and detail, making Double or Die the most vivid and visual of all the Young Bond novels to date.
