Jump to content. Posted 13 July - AM. Chris Stacey. I would like to thank all those who have encouraged me in my writing and helped me in the production of this novel, especially Simon, Gordon and Steve. Thanks, guys. I have included some of my favourite scenarios from across the world of James Bond literature and film to help me create the story.
The Steel Wolf A short story. The Humming Bird. The Blink of an Eye. Past Times A short Story. Never Kiss a Stranger. The author acknowledges all copyrights for products mentioned in the document and for the James Bond character as created by Ian Fleming. For further information please visit the official James Bond website at www. All characters and situations in this novel are fictional.
Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely co-incidental. This novel is the intellectual property of Chris Stacey, whose personal details are listed on the CommanderBond. Chapter One:. Champagne and Death. The watcher on the terrace of the ski lodge saw through the binoculars why James Bond was considered the most dangerous of men.
He was completing the last in a series of long spectacular swooping runs down the slopes towards Donovaly. It was like watching music. His timing was perfect. His skis aligned as if along bars of script. The sound of slats on soft powder, inaudible to the watcher, must surely have rippled in applause. His neat stop in a flurry of snow was like the cut of a baton in the air, sharp, affirmative, direct.
This was a man in total control of all his muscles, from the anterior to the femoris, the deltoid to the biceps, the triceps to the tensors. Every gesture, every gaze, every word spoken, was a calculated, rhythmic decision, one which started behind those steel blue eyes, inside the mind, inside the brain, the one muscle in the body which, like the heart, never stops working.
