Trigger Mortis a serialized reading by Rupert Penry-Jones in October and November 2015. Trigger Mortis Trigger Mortis is a 2015 James Bond novel written by Anthony Horowitz, and commissioned by the estate of Bond's creator Ian Fleming, which was published on 8 September 2015. The book is set in 1957 against the backdrop of the Space Race, and begins two weeks after the events of "Goldfinger". The novel is the third in the current-era literary series to be set during the original timeline created by Fleming since 1968's "Colonel Sun" (following "Devil May Care" by Sebastian Faulks and "Solo" by William Boyd)
Solo (Boyd novel) also picked up by Geoffrey Wansell, reviewing for the "Daily Mail", who saw the tribute paid to Fleming as a "masterstroke", in a novel that he thought "brings back the real Bond, triumphantly". Writing in "The Guardian", Richard Williams saw Boyd using some similar phrasing of Fleming's, while also including "gestures of independence" with his own ideas. The result, Williams considers, is a story that "entertains far more than it exasperates". Much of the criticism about the novel focuses on the plot; Jon Stock, writing in "The Daily Telegraph", thought that although Boyd used details in the same way Fleming