tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138728502354978457.post3286289157499777230..comments2013-04-28T14:44:48.079+02:00Comments on JEREMY DUNS: 'The one with the carpet-beater'Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138728502354978457.post-12184914610731945942013-03-14T19:52:37.723+01:002013-03-14T19:52:37.723+01:00This is a truly amazing novel, and its odd "s...This is a truly amazing novel, and its odd "shape" is a big part of the reason why. It seems to go on after its ending, and you're lulled into thinking it's just an inexperienced novelist wanting to bring some Maugham-esque relationship drama to his cloak-and-dagger thriller.<br /><br />But Vesper's death and revealed betrayal then strike like a brick through a plate-glass window, and it's worth noticing that while Bond's epitaph for her is a brutal, "The bitch is dead now," his rage is not <i>at</i>, but <i>for</i> her. Her death finishes forging him into the deadly weapon that will fight, not so much for England, as for all the hapless victims of the <i>evil</i> Soviet Union.Jonathan Andrew Sheenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13533106584138186704noreply@blogger.com