Per Fine Ounce ?

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  • The Red KindThe Red Kind EnglandPosts: 3,119MI6 Agent
    I know we all have different tastes and one mans meat, etc.... :D
    But High Time to Kill is just ... Awful ...... Awful :#

    Is it really that bad..? :( I'll have to have another read as I remember I actually quite enjoyed it when it came out {:)

    I love Bond doing a bit of climbing and it would be great to see again on screen.
    "Any of the opposition around..?"
  • FTFT Posts: 1MI6 Agent
    I understand that the 2nd edition of Peter Vollmer's book entitled PER FINE OUNCE, with actual excerpts from the original 007 James Bond version as written by Geoffrey Jenkins, has now been re-published.

    It seems the grammatical etc. issues have now all been sorted out now, so nothing got lost in translation this time, and this re-edited version of PER FINE OUNCE by Mr. Vollmer is an a fast-paced, exciting novel to read.

    There is also more interesting background to the history of the "missing Bond novel" and an interview with the author Peter Vollmer talking about his own books and explaining how he was granted access and permission to publish excerpts from the original version of PER FINE OUNCE on the Literary007 website.

    Here's the interview:

    http://literary007.com/2015/03/01/exclusive-interview-with-per-fine-ounce-author-peter-vollmer

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    Here is a link to order a copy in paperback:

    http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/per-fine-ounce-peter-vollmer/1120428003?ean=9781783339839

    or to download it in digital (e-book) format:

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Per-Fine-Ounce-Peter-Vollmer-ebook/dp/B00NWF04N8/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1425897456&sr=8-1&keywords=per+fine+ounce
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,924MI6 Agent
    Interesting {[]
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,060Chief of Staff
    ...though a definite plug. It's allowed this one time.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    "The Heart of Erzulie"
    This was a new one for Me, :)) From Wikipedia :
    A fourth short story, titled "The Heart of Erzulie", was written by Raymond Benson in-between Never Dream of Dying and The Man with the Red Tattoo, however, it was never published because Ian Fleming Publications felt it was "too much of a Fleming pastiche." Benson, himself, acknowledges that it was little more than a time-killer in the interim between the two book projects.
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  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,924MI6 Agent
    Interesting -{

    I wonder what the Story would have been about?
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Give Benson's track record, I wouldn't be expecting a masterpiece. It's
    An intriguing curiosity though. ;)
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,924MI6 Agent
    Agreed :))
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • philpogphilpog Posts: 51MI6 Agent
    I just read Jeremy Duns's excellent essay on the Geoffrey Jenkins manuscript and went looking for a copy of Vollmer's Per Fine Ounce.

    Wow. Not only is it out of print, I can't even find a used copy.

    Anyone know if another edition is on the way?
  • The Domino EffectThe Domino Effect Posts: 3,631MI6 Agent
    I had a similar experience when I looked about a year ago. I confess I haven't tried again since, but it's obviously not easy to find.
  • philpogphilpog Posts: 51MI6 Agent
    I had a similar experience when I looked about a year ago. I confess I haven't tried again since, but it's obviously not easy to find.

    Weird, isn't it?

    Apparently the last edition included pages from the original Jenkins manuscript. I'm wondering if Vollmer and Acorn Books never secured permission from Glidrose to include that excerpt, and Glidrose threatened legal action. In the interviews that I've read with Vollmer, he emphasizes that he had the permission of Jenkins' estate but never mentions Glidrose.

    Or it could be that the book was taken out of circulation because of the numerous complaints about the editing (misspellings, grammatical errors). If so, it seems like an unusually long time to do a polish for a new edition.
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,647MI6 Agent
    Yes, I've heard that it had to do with all of the errors in the first edition. Those excerpts from PFO were taken from Jeremy Duns' article in KKBB Magazine in 2005, so I would doubt that Glidrose pulled the plug on it for that reason.
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • philpogphilpog Posts: 51MI6 Agent
    Yes, I've heard that it had to do with all of the errors in the first edition. Those excerpts from PFO were taken from Jeremy Duns' article in KKBB Magazine in 2005, so I would doubt that Glidrose pulled the plug on it for that reason.

    Ah, okay, thanks!
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