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[Mister Asterix]

Just Another Kill

CommanderBond.net is proud to announce the beginning of a new Fan Fiction series. Jacques I. M. Stewart (known around these forums as Jim) gives us an amazing and brutal look into the world of James Bond with chapter 1 of Just Another Kill. You can read Jim's initial chapter by following this link.

The file requires Acrobat Reader 6.0 or better.

[Blue Eyes]

Great to have a 'snatch' of Jim's work online

[Xenobia]

There are two things I love in a novel: witty dialogue and a mood pieces.

While I tend to like my wit warm, this is cold blooded wit, and Jim has done that very well. With the opening the description of the grey weather, followed by not one but two run ins with the blind, JS has set up an excellent beginning to what I am sure will be a deliberately good, chilling novel.

There are two things I am sure of: 007 will stay, and so will the effect of Jim's writing.

-- Xenobia

[Blofeld's Cat]

I think that this is one of the most eagerly awaited creations of Jim by freind and foe alike.

When I have the chance I shall read this and I'm sure he is as good as Benson.

How ironic that would be.

[Jim]

I can guarantee further eye trauma as the story develops.

[Xenobia]

Ah...the promise of eye trauma...is that to Bond, other characters, or us?

-- Xenobia

[Jim]

Originally posted by Xenobia
Ah...the promise of eye trauma...is that to ...us?

-- Xenobia

Oh...we no likey?

[Xenobia]

No...we likey very much...I am just trying to guess what is coming next.

Perhaps I should simply play blind and let you lead.

-- Xenobia

[Thunderbird]

jim - I just read this and became very engrossed, and that's the main thing. The ennui and darkly brooding elements reminded me of Fleming's passages in that direction, for example, at the opening of Goldfinger. The violence is more graphic than usual too, but that goes with the chilling sense that the story produces. After all, and you make no mistake about this, 007 is a paid killer.

Come on Jim, I want to know what happens in M's office...say...Moneypenny has been the Old Man's PA for a while, maybe HE's the father...actually maybe not...this isn't Alligator after all!

Good luck.

[Peaceful]

This would have to be one of the best written pieces of Bond fiction I have read since "Colonel Sun" which I found to be quite indepth in it's prowse.

C'mon hurry up with the next chapter I'm very eager ;-)




Hmmmm...... Very Eager....... that could be a name for a Bond Girl

COPYRIGHT !!!! No one steal it !! :-)

[Jim]

Blimey

That's incredibly flattering. Thank you.

[Jim]

Chapter two is on its way.

[Xenobia]

Is up yet, or can we expect it during the week?

-- Barbara

[Mister Asterix]

Chapter 2 is up!

And I must say it even better than the first. Jim, you've done it again. Now I'll be on the edge of my seat until Chapter 3:"Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter" comes out. (I love that chapter name.)

[Jim]

That's very kind; thanks.

[Mister Asterix]

Originally posted by Jim
That's very kind; thanks.

No problem. Chapter 2 is pretty much a must read in my opinion.

[Xenobia]

And here I thought "Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter" were your thoughts on taking the kids to see "Die Another Day."

Mister Asterix is right, chapter two builds on the momentum of chapter one, and is better than the first. I look forward to reading the next chapter, and the one after that, and so on and so on.

Thank you for sharing your work with us.

-- Xenobia

PS: The character "I'mRory" -- that's not the slight I think it is, is it?

[Jim]

Given that "I'm Rory" is a chap...slight against whom, and how?

Any similarity to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

NB to tech support: other than "inadvertently" appearing incredibly vain and wanting to look at it in finished version, please note I can't get into it - something about endstream missing.

(Some may say "plot missing". Any similarity to any sort of plot living or dead is also entirely coincidental)

[Mister Asterix]

I'll check that out Jim. In the mean time, what version of Acrobat reader do you have?

[Xenobia]

Jim:

If the name Rory O'Manion means nothing to you, then let it go.

I just thought it was curious that the James Bond in your novel is bemused (is that quite the right word? I am not sure), by someone named Rory.

-- Xenobia

[Jim]

I'm beginning to suspect - given this O'Manion thing, which seems reminiscent of some dusty longforgotten tv movie you have banged on about before- that you imagine it's some slight against some insignificant television.

Is this what the Brosnan Bond Community is all about, looking for slights against the man, real or - as here - imagined?

The name was chosen because it is short and cohered with the grammatical meter. The book is in no way inspired by Mr Brosnan. Mr Brosnan is in the world, but he is not the world. A little objectivity - and perhaps some realism - might be required. Blimey - something which he has absolutely nothing to do with.

How can the world continue?

We are all lost, we are all lost at sea. No - he must have something to do with it. No, he must. And if he doesn't, we'll imagine he must.

Mr* - I have version 5. The rubric on the fan fiction suggests version 4. I can certainly open the first chapter still - just not the second one nor the whole thing.

[Loomis]

Originally posted by Jim

I can certainly open the first chapter still - just not the second one nor the whole thing.

Same here. I seem to be suffering from the same problem involving a missing endstream.

[Mister Asterix]

Originally posted by Loomis

Originally posted by Jim

I can certainly open the first chapter still - just not the second one nor the whole thing.

Same here. I seem to be suffering from the same problem involving a missing endstream.

Dang! I've downloaded it a few times from different computers and haven't had a problem.

[Mister Asterix]

I've re-uploaded the file. Could you guys try to download it again?

[Jim]

No, 'fraid not

Odd

[Blofeld's Cat]

It works for me, and I'm using Acrobat 4.

[Jim]

Now it's working for me.

Thanks for sorting that out Mr*

To everyone else - if you can tolerate reading it - grateful for feedback, as and when. Ta.

[ray t]

jim, u certainly, *AHEM*, have a way with words:

"He had toyed with the idea that, to wipe up the free-flowing blood, he should use pages from the blasted dossier, and then present that to M. How richly ironic"

and then...

"...eventually stemming the rapid flow by patching up the Austrian's neck with the Book of Job"

fantastic, old boy...absolutely precious...i never thought i'd get a good chuckle outta so grusome a description....

[Xenobia]

My apologies Jim. I thought, given the name and the way Bond reacts to him, Rory was a slight at a certain Irish actor. I have got to to learn that only I pull stunts like that, not you.

As for feedback, it will be forthcoming, as soon as the savages that keep invading my office go away.

-- Xenobia

[Jim]

Any more for any more?

Shallow attempt to get feedback.