From the offbeat vantage
point of a movie-obsessed teenager whose grandfather was chauffeur to legendary
007 producer Albert R. Broccoli,
CATCHING
BULLETS – MEMOIRS OF A BOND FAN is a love-letter to James Bond,
Duran Duran title songs and bolting down your tea quick enough to watch Roger
Moore falling out of a plane without a parachute.
When Jimmy O'Connell took a job as chauffeur for 007
producers Eon Productions, it would not just be Cubby Broccoli, Roger Moore and
Sean Connery he would drive to James Bond. His grandson Mark swiftly hitches a
ride on a humorous journey of filmic discovery where Bond movies fire like
bespoke bullets at a Reagan-era Catholic childhood marked with divorce, a
closet-gay adolescence sound-tracked by John Barry and an adult life as a
comedy writer still inspired by that Broccoli movie magic.
“Mark
O’Connell is a great new writing talent and we are delighted to be publishing
his first book,” says Splendid Books’ Editorial Director Shoba Vazirani.
“CATCHING BULLETS is very funny and he brings a genuinely new insight into the
Bond film phenomena.
“The
book is a fascinating journey, in which Mark reconsiders all the Bond films as
they fire into his and everyone’s cinema-going memories.”
Check out the book's website here.
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