Trigger Mortis, Horowitz - C

                                                I downloaded this because Simon Schama, noted English scholar and historian, wrote a positive review, and over the years Ive read a few of the novels authorized by the estate of Ian Fleming. The year is 1957 and the principal character is Bond - James Bond.  His opponents are SMERSH and a mysterious Korean, Jason Sin. The insidious cold war plan is to disable a Vanguard rocket so that ground control aborts it and blows it up in mid-flight. Simultaneously, a Vanguard faux rocket and real bomb will be put on the IND tracks and somehow sent on its way from Sin's Coney Island warehouse to midtown Manhattan.  On the way to stopping it, Bond overcomes being buried alive six feet under in a wooden box, races on a motorcycle to catch the speeding train, and rides on the roof of the train, killing innumerable bad guys and derailing the train before the bomb gets to 34th St., where it was supposed to blow-up the Empire State Building. All in all, this is a very weak effort.