Bang! is definitely familiar ground for Matt Kindt; a secret agent romp with a heavy slice of weird on the side. The story opens with tackling the question of how James Bond manages to still be a relatively young all action hero despite first bursting onto the scene in the 60s, and just why does he look like a different person every few years? We then jump into an almost Morrisoneqsue metatextual team up adventure with variations of John McClane, Miss Marple/Poirot, and an east Asian techno-spy whose homage I'm sure I would be able to explain if only I was a bit better well-read. The plot races to a somewhat rushed and truncated ending that feels more like a set-up for the next chapter in the story of these characters - indeed, the book finishes with 'to be continued'. The story itself is interesting enough, but the best chapters and the first 4 which focus individually on our cast of characters, where Kindt does a good job of balancing the recognisable aspects of thes
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