>>213604852he completely nails Fleming's style, for better and for worse. good thriller style, Bond isn't particularly PC, the villains are interesting but extremely undeveloped and rushed just like Fleming's. I've read a spattering of the John Gardner and Raymond Benson continuation novels and they felt like bad fan fiction, double so that they were trying to play fast and loose with making the character work in then-present day of the 80s and 90s and each author picked and chose which elements from the other continuation authors they wanted to use - John Gardner made Bond a Navy Captain at one point but Benson switched him back to a Commander with no explanation
it's what I'm worried is going to happen with Jack Reacher now that Lee Child's brother has fully taken over the series
Horowitz is the only one who actually made his Bond novels period accurate to the rest of Fleming's books
Trigger Mortis actually felt fairly structured like a movie and was an extremely engaging read, although the original material from Fleming that was used in it, namely Bond going undercover as a Grand Prix racer for the first quarter of the story, feels isolated and has little bearing on the rest of the story other than to introduce the new villain and close out Pussy Galore's role in the story (again, direct continuation of Goldfinger)
the only reason I don't have the Horowitz books numbered to be among the other Fleming books is because I'm autistic and think they'd look weird compared to the other covers