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In the end we
didn’t really have any choice but to accede to the Fleming Will
Trust’s wishes, and so, on the morning of the 6th March 2008 we
arranged for several hundred copies of The Battle For Bond,
all remaining UK stock, to be delivered to the London office of the
Trust’s lawyers.
We’d always
believed that the Fleming Will Trust’s actions were misdirected,
since taking this stance would inevitably lead to bad publicity for
them. Tomahawk Press tried to make them aware of this
possibility on several occasions, particularly as 2008 is the
centenary year of author Ian Fleming.
This action by the
Fleming Will Trust is not going to stop us from telling the true
story of the Fleming plagiarism trial and its not inconsiderable
repercussions. There will be a second edition of The Battle For
Bond, omitting this time all the material to which the Trust took
exception. This second edition will be a more affordable version
and will contain only a few of the many photographs used in the
original, although we will be printing one or two never-before-seen
new illustrations. We hope to have this edition of the book ready
around June/July 2008. |
