Never Dream of Dying, first published in 2001, was the seventh novel by Raymond Benson

Raymond Benson

Raymond Benson is an American author best known for being the official author of the adult James Bond novels from 1997 to 2003. Benson was born in Midland, Texas and graduated from Permian High School in Odessa in 1973...

 featuring Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer.Fleming is best known for creating the fictional British spy James Bond and for a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the character, one of the biggest-selling series of fictional books of...

's secret agent

Secret Agent

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, James Bond

James Bond

James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...

 (including film novelizations). Carrying the Ian Fleming Publications

Ian Fleming Publications

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 copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 by Hodder & Stoughton

Hodder & Stoughton

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 and in the United States

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 by Putnam

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Plot summary

It begins when a police raid goes horribly wrong, killing innocent men, women, and even children. Bond knows the Union is behind the carnage, and vows to take them down once and for all. His hunt takes him to Paris, into a deadly game of predator and prey, and a fateful meeting with the seductive Tylyn Mignonne, a movie star with a sordid past, who may lead Bond to his final target--or his own violent end... Eventually it leads him to the Union's latest attack on society, which involves Tylyn's husband, Leon Essinger, and his new movie, "Pirate Island", which stars Tylyn. (US Paperback)

The conclusion to Benson’s Union Trilogy. Locations are Nice, Paris, Cannes, Monte Carlo, Corsica (also Los Angeles, Japan, and Chicago briefly).

Publication history

• UK first hardback edition: May 3, 2001 Hodder & Stoughton
  Hodder & Stoughton
  Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette.-History:The firm has its origins in the 1840s, with Matthew Hodder's employment, aged fourteen, with Messrs Jackson and Walford, the official publisher for the Congregational Union...
  
  
• U.S. first hardback edition: June 2001 Putnam
  G. P. Putnam's Sons
  G. P. Putnam's Sons was a major United States book publisher based in New York City, New York. Since 1996, it has been an imprint of the Penguin Group.-History:...
  
  
• UK first paperback edition: November 2001 Coronet Books
• U.S. first paperback edition: May 2002 Jove Books