No. of pages 160
Published: 2008
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This book features in the following series: James Bond Adventures, Young Bond, Young Bond Graphic Novels .
This book has been graded for interest at 9-13 years.
There are 160 pages in this book.
This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+).
This book was published in 2008 by Penguin Random House Children's UK .
Charlie Higson is a well-known writer of screenplays and adult thriller novels. He's also a performer and co-creator of The Fast Show . He has written four mega-selling novels about Young Bond - Silverfin , Blood Fever , Double or Die, Hurricane Gold and his fifth, By Royal Command publishes in hardback in September. Kev Walker has been illustrating Young Bond since its debut in 2005. Since he began in 1988 he has worked for 2000AD, Games Workshop, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dark Horse and Wizards of the Coast. Charlie Higson is the author of the bestselling Young Bond series, as well as a well-known writer of screenplays and adult thriller novels. He's also a performer and co-creator of The Fast Show.
Media Ties in literature
Adventures in literature
Young Bond Charlie Higson
Teen Spies and Detectives
Graphic Novel adaptations
Orphans
Old Series, New Authors
This book contains the following story:
Silverfin
Young James Bond, while attending boarding school at Eton in the 1930s, must battle against an insane arms dealer who, by using killer eels, is attempting to create a race of indestructible soldiers on the eve of World War II.
'A page-turning adventure that will get the hairs standing up on the back of your neck' - Sunday Express'Good, gritty and funny . . . Very clever, Bond, very clever indeed' - Daily Mail
Would have made Ian Fleming proud * Daily Telegraph *
More action, more demented crime and more flesh-crawling deaths than ever before -- - * Observer *
James Bond's action adventures are perfect for a graphic novel, with more AAAAAGHH!, KER-BLOOSH! SMAKK and other onomatopoeia than you can shake a martini glass at. * Scotland on Sunday *
This graphic novel is a feast for the eyes as well as the imagination. * Fulham Gazette *
Would have made Ian Fleming proud * Daily Telegraph *
