{"product_id":"forever-and-a-death-9781785654640","title":"Forever and a Death","description":"The Bond That Never Was \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, nearly a decade after Westlake's 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 project's genesis, and to give fans their first taste of the Westlake-scripted Bond that might have been.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDonald E. Westlake is widely regarded as one of the great crime writers of the 20th Century. He won three Edgar Awards and was named a Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America. Many of his books have been made into movies; Westlake also wrote the screenplay for \"The Grifters,\" for which he received an Academy Award nomination.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hard Case Crime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50433204027666,"sku":"9781785654640","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_720a8645-446e-41a4-b28c-cd5cf1a6bfcd.jpg?v=1729562096","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/forever-and-a-death-9781785654640","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}