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Oct 23, 2021 · The woman that saved Bond: how Johanna Harwood became 007’s first female writer 60 years before Phoebe Waller-Bridge rewrote 'No Time To Die', a young Irish writer brought 'Dr. No' back from the ...
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Sep 12, 2022 · There’s 003 Johanna Harwood, a former trauma surgeon and, perhaps inevitably, an old flame of Bond’s. She finds herself in a love triangle with another agent: a brilliant mathematician, Sid ...
May 2, 2024 · They include agent 003, Johanna Harwood, named after the Bond film franchise’s first female scriptwriter, and 004, Joseph Dryden, the “freakish human-machine hybrid” permanently connected ...
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Double or Nothing is the forty-second official James Bond novel and the first continuation novel to be written by English novelist and screenwriter Kim Sherwood. Commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications, it was published by HarperCollins in September 2022.
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In Syria, Aazar Sidding "Sid" Bashir (009) is on a mission to free Johanna Harwood: 003 and her ex-fiancé. She is held prisoner in a Rattenfänger camp , a paramilitary organization which engages in terrorism in exchange for money. Bashir infiltrates the camp, creating a diversion but is put in difficulty by a colonel named Mora with whom he has an altercation. As he is about to die, Harwood saves him by shooting Mora.
Bashir and Harwood manage to escape the camp and reach Turkey, where they tell each other that they still love each other.
While Harwood recovers at Shrublands (see Operation Thunder ), Moneypenny (now the head of Section 00) arrives at MI6 HQ and reminisces about James Bond (007). This one went missing about 17 months ago (and is presumed dead). He had been sent on a mission to Barcelona with Bashir, with the aim of helping Mikhail Petrov (Russia's leading climate scientist) and his wife Anna cross to England. Petrov wanted Bond to take on this mission because he had taken a liking to him after seeing him seduce his wife. Since Petrov died, his wife and Bond have disappeared, and he suspected that Rattenfänger was involved. Bashir, angry at having lost track of Bond during this mission, then separated from Harwood.
Moneypenny summons Joseph Dryden (004) to his office to assign him a mission. Tech billionaire Sir Bertram Paradise has a geoengineering project called Cloud Nine that could save humanity from the climate crisis. One of its chief scientists, Dr. Zofia Nowak, and its head of security, Robert Bull, have disappeared. Since Paradise wires a lot of money, it could be that they were kidnapped and someone is blackmailing him. Moneypenny wants Dryden to investigate by being recruited by Paradise's new head of security, Luke "Lucky" Luck, a former army comrade of Dryden's and his former lover.
Before leaving, Dryden will box against Harthrop-Vane (000), a fight during which his hearing aid is damaged (Dryden was injured in Afghanistan where he lost most of his hearing; an implant in his body helps compensate for this. his deafness and be in permanent communication with the Q-Branch). He goes to the Q-Branch to have it repaired and learns in the process that Nowak recently contacted a human rights lawyer, Ruqsana Choudhury, a childhood friend of Bashir.
•Joseph "Joe" Dryden, 004 : Former Special Forces, he was injured in Afghanistan where he lost most of his hearing. A Q-Branch implant in his body makes it possible to compensate for his deafness (and to be in permanent communication with the Q-Branch). He has black skin (with Jamaican origins) and is gay.
•Johanna Harwood, 003 : Brunette, born to a Northern Irish father and a mother of French-Algerian origin, she grew up in Paris before leaving for London to study medicine to become a surgeon. She was Bond's lover, before eventually leaving him for Sid Bashir.
•Aazar Sidding “Sid” Bashir, 009 : born to a father of Sudanese origin and a mother of Pakistani origin, he is a big fan of chess and mathematics. He is 003's lover.
•Bertram “Bertie” Paradise : Tech billionaire. Heir to a family that made its fortune in mining, most people assume that he intends to wash away their environmental sins by dedicating his life to saving humanity from the climate crisis. In reality he wants to accelerate the crisis to create new maritime routes and thus enrich himself: “my friends are paying me for the new trade routes that I am going to open”. He also wants to free himself from Rattenfänger with whom he had associated himself.
•Colonel Mora : Ruler of Rattenfänger , his nickname is derived from the mythology of the "Kikimora". Has a sphingid butterfly tattoo on his neck and chest.
•Luke "Lucky" Luck : Dryden's former army comrade and his former lover. He is Sir Bertram Paradise's head of security.
Johanna Harwood's contributions to Bond have been largely ignored or significantly reduced by others in their personal accounts – Dr Lisa Funnell. Initially, Harwood wrote the first rough draft ...
Jan 31, 2022 · Kim Sherwood makes a nice nod to a fellow female writer in the James Bond sphere with the name of her new agent 003, Johanna Harwood, who in real life worked on the screenplays for 'Dr. No' and 'From Russia With Love'. 'Double Or Nothing' will be released on September 1st, 2022.
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Aug 28, 2022 · That she named 003 Johanna Harwood is no accident. Harwood, 92, was, until Phoebe Waller-bridge’s hiring on No Time To Die, (2021) the first and only woman to write for the Bond films. Harwood, who lives in Ireland, was there at the beginning, gaining credits for her work on Dr No (1962) and From Russia With Love (1963) – based on the first Bond book Sherwood read as a teenager.
