Trigger Mortis 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) and sees the return of Bond girl Pussy Galore, who made
Continuation novel multiple authors that have continued Ian Fleming's James Bond series, including Kingsley Amis, William Boyd, Sebastian Faulks and others; and the 2014 Hercule Poirot continuation novel "The Monogram Murders" by Sophie Hannah, produced with the permission of the Agatha Christie estate. Some versatile authors have contributed to more than one continuation series, for instance Sebastian Faulks who in addition to James Bond has written the first ever official P.G. Wodehouse Jeeves and Wooster story, "Jeeves and the Wedding Bells", published in 2013. If not done well, the continuation novel poses risks to the reputation of the dead author but writing