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‘The right car, the right cocktail’: Anthony Horowitz on the challenge of writing James Bond

With the release of With a Mind to Kill, author Anthony Horowitz will wrap his Bond novel trilogy. Here, he writes about the journey, from reading Dr No as a ten-year-old to bidding a fond farewell to the iconic character.

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