title: DoubleShot: The New James Bond Adventure
author:  Raymond Benson 
description: Benson (The Facts of Death), a director of the Ian Fleming Foundation and chief litterateur/preservationist of the 007 tradition, delivers his seventh volume of James Bond fiction. Mobilizing a cold-blooded hit man surgically restructured to be the British superspy's double, a worldwide organization of terrorists known as the Union conspires to assassinate the governor of Gibraltar and the British and Spanish prime ministers at a summit meeting to settle rioting and political unrest over the control of the Rock. The plan is to let the real Bond take the blameAand kill him off in the resulting mayhem. Bond himselfAsuffering disabling headaches and sporadic amnesia from a head injury incurred in the HimalayasAfinds a message in a fortune cookie: Meeting your double means certain death. Bond ignores his boss M's orders to take medical leave and, intent on exacting revenge on the Union for the death of his personal assistant, Helena, undertakes a mission to bring her killers to a final reckoning. Following a sensual encounter with his beautiful physician, 007 blacks out and wakes to find her brutally murdered. The trail leads to Tangier, where a fellow agent is killed helping Bond scout the Union stronghold in the Rif mountains. On a train to Casablanca, 007 meets a pair of beautiful blonde identical twins who turn out to be CIA agents assigned to escort him back to London. He prevails on them to plead his case with M, and they join his quest to discover the purpose and identity of the imposter Bond and to settle the score with the Union. Benson's faithful manipulation of Fleming's boilerplate formula will have Bond fans cheering as 007 and the sexy twins race to save the day on Gibraltar, then demurely retire to a king-size bed. <br />Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  ## THE JAMES BOND BEDSIDE COMPANION
  
  
  By Raymond Benson
  
  
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  First Digital Edition published by Crossroad Press
  
  
  Copy-edited by: David Dodd
  
  
  Cover design by David Dodd
  
  
  Digital Edition Copyright 2012 by Raymond Benson  
  Original edition copyright 1984; updated edition copyright 1988
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## OTHER PRODUCTS BY RAYMOND BENSON
  
  
  Fiction
  
  
  A Hard Day's Death
  
  
  Artifact of Evil
  
  
  Dark Side of the Morgue
  
  
  Evil Hours
  
  
  Face Blind
  
  
  Sweetie's