MATTHEW FIELD and AJAY CHOWDHURY,
Porter Press International, £99, ISBN 978 1 913089 85 6
Just when you think you’ve read everything that could possibly be written about the cars used in the Bond movies, along comes this doorstop of a hardback, running to nearly 420 pages and absolutely stuffed with never-before-seen images. And then you find out that this is merely the first of a planned three volumes. Mind truly blown.
Part of the explanation for such mammoth coverage is that, as the subhead to the book’s title clarifies, it actually profiles all the ‘vehicles’ used in the first seven Bond movies, not just the cars. So that includes boats, aircraft, submarines, moon buggies… the whole gamut of cool machinery.