DEATH IN THE FACE
Book ID/图书代码： 14934115B85257
English Summary/英文概要： Ian Fleming and Hector Lassiter: Novelists, ex-spies and, at last, lions in winter.
It’s 1963, and the future isn’t what it used to be. Lassiter senses the culture is slowly but surely shouldering him aside. Yet his friend Ian stands on the verge of unimaginable success as his long-running series of James Bond novels at last makes its way to the Silver Screen.
A dying man, Ian finds it harder to live the high-life necessary to feed his 007 page-turners, but the ex-spymaster pines for a last grand adventure. As Hector follows Ian on a research trip to Japan for his next Bond novel, You Only Live Twice, then onto Istanbul for the filming of From Russia with Love, he discovers Fleming is secretly determined to right their one shared intelligence failure: “Operation Flea” — the key to a bio-weapon of terrifying scope that could bring Britain and America to their knees.
With cameos by Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, and the death-obsessed Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, Craig McDonald again deftly mixes fact and fiction for a darkly seductive historical romp through the mid-20th Century.
This is the penultimate Hector Lassiter literary thriller in the Edgar/Anthony-awards nominated series BookPage declared “wildly inventive” and The Chicago Tribune calls “most unusual, and readable crime fiction to come along in years.”
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1963年，未来并不可预测。 Lassiter感觉到文化在变，自己越来越被推向不知名的地方。但他的朋友Ian毫无疑问就要获得不可想象的巨大成功，因为他的007系列小说终于被搬上了大荧幕。
年事已高的Ian发现要满足那些热情读者越来越难，但这个前间谍还有一场最后冒险。Hector和Ian一起为下一部邦德小说《雷霆谷》前往日本取材，然后到伊斯坦布尔考察007俄罗斯之恋的拍摄情况。他发现Ian已经暗下决心要纠正他们从事情报工作期间的唯一一次失误：代号为“Flea”的行动，解决对于英国和美国形成威胁、影响范围巨大的生物武器。
Sean Connery、Robert Shaw以及迷恋死亡的日本小说家三岛由纪夫都在本书中客串出现，Craig McDonald再一次巧妙地将事实和虚构融为一体，描述了20世纪中叶一段黑暗而吸引人的历史。本书被《芝加哥论坛报》称为“这些年来最不寻常、可读性最高的犯罪小说”。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：本书是McDonald的第九本Hector Lassiter小说，背景为1962年，62岁的作家Hector和他54岁的朋友Ian Fleming（邦德的创始人）一起去了日本。表面上，Fleming是为了下一步以亚洲为背景的007小说取材，而Lassiter是为《花花公子》杂志报道Fleming的旅程。事实上，这两人正在执行一项使命，寻找日本在二战期间制定的毁灭性生化武器计划。两人的旅程并不平静，一个简短的结尾将引出下一部，也是最后一部Lassiter小说。
《Publishers Weekly (http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9934331-0-8)》
如果说我有一本拿到手马上就会读的小说，那就是Craig McDonald的Hector Lassiter系列了。
"Set in 1962, McDonald’s fine ninth Hector Lassiter novel (after Print the Legend) takes the 62-year-old writer and an old friend of his, 54-year-old Ian Fleming (the creator of James Bond), to Japan. Ostensibly, Fleming is to do research for an Asian-set 007 novel, and Lassiter is covering Fleming’s trip for Playboy magazine. In fact, the pair are on a mission to secure the secret plans made by the Japanese in WWII for a devastating biological weapon. Both men formerly performed intelligence duties, including an attempt, during Operation Flea, to recover the plans immediately after the war. McDonald pays frequent homage to Fleming and his novels, while Lassiter, like an aging James Bond, foils assassins and follows a trail that leads from Japan to Turkey; he even uses a Bond-like gadget to great effect. A brief coda sets the stage for the next and, unfortunately, last Lassiter novel, Three Chords and the Truth." - Publishers Weekly (http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9934331-0-8)
“There is one novel I’ve been waiting for that I’ll devour immediately, the latest in Craig McDonald’s Hector Lassiter series, Death in the Face. Lassiter and Ian Fleming team up for one last international caper to “live what they write and write what they live.” And if you can deliver an audio version narrated by Tom Stechshulte, I’ll never ask for another thing again ever.”
About the Author/作者介绍： Craig McDonald是一个屡获殊荣的作家和记者。
Hector Lassiter系列小说在全球都有读者，已被翻译为多种语言（法语，意大利语，日语，韩语，俄语和西班牙语）。McDonald的处女作获美国Edgar, Anthony and Gumshoe奖提名，在法国获2011年Sélection du prix polar Saint-Maur en Poche奖。
作者网站：http://www.craigmcdonaldbooks.com/
Craig McDonald is an award-winning author and journalist.
The Hector Lassiter series has been published to international acclaim in numerous languages (French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish). McDonald’s debut novel was nominated for Edgar, Anthony and Gumshoe awards in the U.S. and the 2011 Sélection du prix polar Saint-Maur en Poche in France.
The Lassiter series has been enthusiastically endorsed by a who’s who of crime fiction authors.
Author’s website:
http://www.craigmcdonaldbooks.com/
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