Heads You Die
ISBN: 9781782952411
Description
James's Cuban holiday has become a nightmare mission to save an old friend from a villain who has perfected 1,000 ways to kill.
With corrupt cops and hired assassins hot on his heels, James must travel through Havana and brave Caribbean waters to stop a countdown to mass murder.
Reviewed on 6th July 2016
The second of Coles' Young Bond novels that follow on from the previous series by Charlie Higson is an immediate sequel to the first. We join the teenage Bond on a Caribbean island as he makes his way home from the last adventure, and it isn't long before he gets mixed up in another.
As with the previous novel, I find I'm highly critical of the publisher's marketing - while I'm clearly not their target audience I am at least a secondary market that it would make sense to inform of the existence of the novel sometime in advance of publication?
I found it to be an enjoyable novel that cleverly weaves in aspects of the character from the original parent series and it's fun to see the moments which are clearly intended to act as foreshadowing.
It has a solid plot and strong guest characters that make for a great adventure for all ages of reader and I look forward to Coles' next novel, which the marketing has worked for and which I am expecting to see later this year.
