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Title: Benson misses the point...
Review: In trying to copy Ian Fleming's writing style, Raymond Benson relegates himself to writing a pulp-novel of the late 1950s with technology of the 1990s. The results aren't great. What Benson has missed is that just as the Bond films of late have had to change with the times, so do the novels. Megolomaniacal bad guys may have been entertaining thirty-five years ago, but they've gotten pretty stale in the meantime (Ironically, the villain from "Tomorrow Never Dies", the latest film that was not scripted by Benson was much more contemporary and believable). As for biological weapons, that was done to death years ago. With competition like Tom Clancy and Stephen Hunter, Benson can't afford to be pretending it's 1962. The Bond novels always seemed more believable than the films, but try to imagine one of the movies featuring a scene in which Felix Leiter charges his electric wheelchair into the gunfire at a militia warehouse. I can't do it either.
