His own man

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NO matter what is opined there was only one 007.
There was only one Bond. And it came from the mind of Ian Flemming.

Now we have Marc Dane; from the creative mind of James Swallow.
And Marc Dane is his own man.

Bond was embodied cinematically by Connor, Lazenby, Moore, and Daniel Craig among others.
Throughout he remained the quintessential British master agent

Those Bond doppelgangers: Jason Bourne, Jack Reacher, Jack Ryan et al
have their place in the body politic of the spy thriller genre
And now to join them is Mark Dolan.

No “shaken not stirred” suave one-liners from our Marc who embraces the digital battlefield rather than the bedroom and whose techno intrigue is redolent with gimmickry and crafty action.

I was introduced to this MI6 "reject" who is sent out crypto pastures new
in the Swallow bestsellers Exile and Nomad.

I was enamoured. May this literary “tryst” be rekindled in Ghost.