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Murder! Space! James Bond! Chris Hadfield and Anthony Horowitz talk thrillers

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I've Been a Bondo Piolopy for Almost My Entire Life.

Aga: i was enormously flattered and felt very privileged to be approached by them to do this continuation novel. The one that popped out ot me was this story called murder on wheels, which has s a russian plot by smirsh to kill an english racing driver in order to show the superiority of their vehicles. In fact, it only contained about, i would say, four or 500 words that i could use. But the strange thing is, rober, that they were incredibly valuable to me,. Just to have a few words by m written by en fleming, a few wordsBy bond himself and this scenario, it was a wonderful inspiration. Youh've been a a bond

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