Sublime

Mike was living out what some therapists call a love-lust split. Home was stable, good, responsible, and dead. Outside, the street was adventurous, bad, selfish, and alive.

As the sun was setting over the silhouetted palms, the phone rang and my agent, Dennis Van Thal, told me from London that he had on my behalf politely bowed out of the two-million-dollar production Getting Rid of Mr Straker. It is a film Mel Frank and I planned before I knew I was to be Bond, and starred Lee Remick, Orson Welles, Terry-Thomas and