Tuesday, October 7, 2025

THE HOOK AND THE EYE paperback available NOW

Raymond Benson's Felix Leiter spin-off adventure, The Hook and the Eye, is now available in paperback from Ian Fleming Publications. The novel was first released as an eBook, which is also still available.

Felix Leiter – James Bond’s trusted friend and ally – takes centre stage in a brand new adventure by legendary Bond novelist, Raymond Benson.

It is 1952. Felix has lost his job at the CIA and finds himself working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. What starts as a simple surveillance job turns into a matter of life and death when Felix stumbles upon a murder and a cabal of spies embedded in Manhattan. Hired to transport the impossibly beautiful and impossibly secretive Dora from New York to Texas, Felix is thrust into a non-stop adventure, where danger and deceit lie in wait around every bend in the road.

The Hook and the Eye is a mystery, a romance, a spy story, a road trip tale and a postcard of a lost Americana. It is also Raymond Benson at his very best.

This is one spin-off I can get behind. I'm a huge fan of Benson's Bond novels, and I know this is a book he wanted to write. I would love to see these become a series.

3 comments:

  1. Does anybody know if the paperback will be available to buy outside UK, US, CAN, AUS or NZ...?

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    1. Afraid I don't know. Those are the only countries I see in the dropdown. You should ask IFP.

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    2. I've already tried to write and ask IFP, but they haven't answered (at least not yet...).
      It does seem rather strange, if the rest of the world will have to look for a second-hand copy of the book, instead of buying a brand new copy.

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