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[level007]

hi

As you may not know, i am french, and here the benson books are coming a little bit late. We have "zero minus ten", "the fact of death", "high time to kill", and i recently see that i new benson was coming. But while the logic order of things will make "Doubleshot" the next one, it s "never dream of dying" instead.
SO MY BIG QUESTION IS: Can i read "NDOD" before reading "DOubleshot" ?

thnaks you.

i ll post in a few time the covers of the french books of Benson.

[Mister Asterix]

You can read Never Dream Of Dying before Doubleshot. Never Dream Of Dying will give away a little bit of Doubleshot but not really enough to ruin the book. Both books stand as individual stories, though. One not really requiring the other. I would try to read them in order if possible, but if it's not possible, c'est la vie.

I imagine they are rushing Never Dream Of Dying out in France because parts of the book take place there and more people would be interested.

Have you thought of trying to read the English version of Doubleshot?

[level007]

thanks for your answer Miser *.

I ve thought to read it but i am not very sure. Anyways, here in france, near half of the Gardner books weren't translate inn french so i l have to read them in english.

[zencat]

Hey, I didn't know HTTK was out in French, and DS is coming? I'd love to get these, but I can't find them on the French Amazon site. Could you provide me with the links, level007? Or any other links where I could get these? Thanks.

[level007]

no zencat, Doubleshot isn't out in french.
there is Zero minus ten (Jour J Moins Dix), The Fact of Death (Le Visage de la Mort), High Time to Kill (Crimes sur les Cimes), Never Dream of Dying (Ne r

[level007]

i ve just bought, the goldeneye Novelization, licence to kill novelization, The man from Barbarosa, and Icebreaker. They are all in french and rare. I am very Happy !

[zencat]

Thanks level007! I just bought High Time to Kill (Crimes sur les Cimes) on Amazon.fr...but I can't find Never Dream of Dying (Ne r

[zencat]

Bingo! Got them both on http://www.alapage.com/ It was a little trick negotiating the checkout page as I don't understand French, but I think I pulled it off.

I'd appreciate an alert when Doubleshot is released, level007.

[level007]

thanks, me too.

I ll try to send you some picture of the gardner books but i can tell you they are not really exciting.

By the way, i bought NDOD at www.fnac.com (a very famous company in france)

[Tim007]

In Germany they stopped translating the Benson novels after The Facts Of Death, so I read High Time To Kill and Doubleshot in English, and yesterday I got as a birthday present Never Dream Of Dying which I just started reading.

It's a pity they don't want to translate any more Benson books. I e-mailed them last year and they said "the demand wasn't high enough, so we stopped supply..."


Regards,

[level007]

happy birthday Tim ! (sorry to be a little bit late... :-) )

[Tim007]

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[Kronsteen]

Here in Sweden we must be the most unlucky people in the world. They stopped translating the books after Icebreaker... oh god, it