Books
James Bond’s DB5
SIMON HUGO and WILL LAWRENCE, Hero Collector Books, £40, ISBN 978 1 85875 610 3
‘The most famous car in the world’, as author Dave Worrall dubbed James Bond’s DB5 in his eponymously titled 1991 book, has just become famous all over again thanks to a spectacular action sequence in the latest Bond adventure, No Time To Die. Thirty years on, an in-depth revisiting of TMFCITW has been well overdue.
Enter this large-format hardback, beautifully produced on fine paper and retailing for a reasonable 40 quid. It’s been produced with the assistance of EON productions, the people who make the Bond films – which appears to have been both a blessing and, if not a curse, then at least a mild constraint.
The book’s stand-out USP, and the main reason it’s our , is the fabulous selection of, in which a wounded Bond and Miss Moneypenny arrive at the funeral of Sir Robert King. The sequence never made it into the finished movie.
