Product Description

Following a treacherous rescue mission high in the freezing Alps, James Bond is preparing for life back at Eton. But James is under surveillance; his every move is being watched. He alone holds the clue to a sinister plot that will bring bloodshed and carnage to his school – and his country. Forced to flee from Eton to Austria, James must leave behind everything he knows, with only a beautiful – and dangerous – girl by his side. Soon he is trapped in a deadly war of secrets and lies, as a nightmare reunion with a bitter enemy plunges him once more into the face of death. Life for James Bond will never be the same again.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #896 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-03
• Released on: 2008-09-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages

Review
'Praise for Young Bond: 'Charlie Higson's Young Bond books get an A*' -- GQ 'Would have made Ian Fleming proud' -- Daily Telegraph 'More action, more demented crime and more flesh-crawling deaths than ever before' -- Observer'

About the Author
Several authors were approached by Ian Fleming Publications to write the Young Bond series. They were gathered in a secret mountain hideaway and sat around a huge marble-topped table. Charlie Higson pulled a lever and the other authors disappeared into a shark-infested tank. So Charlie got the job and the Young Bond series is a phenomenal No. 1 bestselling success. Charlie Higson is also a well-known writer of screenplays and novels, as well as a performer and co-creator of The Fast Show.

Customer Reviews

It's the fifth book
Having just spent 10 minutes trying to work out what number this is in the series to check I haven't missed one, I can now tell you that it is the fifth. The others, in order, are:
Silverfin
Bloodfever
Double or Die
and Hurricane Gold.
Don't know what this is like but my son (now 13, has been reading them as they came out)loved the first 4.

Zzzzzz Yawn. DONT BOTHER.
What a waste of time, its the worst of all the Young james bond books. Why is it we have a fantastic hero such as James Bond, we have brilliant authors in this country, Joe Craig, Anthony Horowitz, JK Rowling, Robert Muchamore all who have proved themselves as brilliant YA authors and yet the Flemming people choose a comedian to write the young James Bond adventures.
Silverfin was a great book, Hurricane Gold was a copy of Alex Rider and Skeleton key, now I read the much awaited 'By Royal Command' and its so slow and painfully boring its pathetic.

Slow, boring in places.
Please dont let him write another. Great Britain has the worlds greatest authors.
Anthony Horowitz; Alex Rider, Jason Steed, Ravens Gate, Necropolis.
Joe Craig: Jimmy Coates.
Robert Muchamore: Cherub.
All three authors have proved themselves as being the best teen spy writers not only in the country but the world.
Joe Craig who brought us Jimmy Coates is also the couson of James Bond Actor Daniel Crag.
Yet we have comedian Charlie Higson and part time author writing the young adventures of the great fictional character in the world.

By Royal Command is slows. and has James out of character, fleeing the country. The chapters are slow and boring in places.
When the wolrd is reading books by Anthony Horowitz and Stephenie Meyers this is a let down. Take the James Bond name away and you have nothing. I can see why they have not made a film on the series yet made a film about Alex Rider and are going to make a film on the Cherub series.