James Bong: Agent Of Anarchy by Todd Borho

James Bong: Agent of Anarchy by Todd Borho

The “actual” James Bond served the Queen, however James Bong serves nobody.

James Bond has been busy. Since 1952, when Ian Fleming revealed On line casino Royale, the primary of his spy novels that includes 007, subsequent Bond books have bought greater than 100 million copies worldwide. It’s been estimated that 47 p.c of individuals in the USA have seen at the very least one of many 27 Bond movies; 27 p.c have seen all of them.

A New Spin on a Traditional Spy

A brand new addition to Bond fandom is James Bong: Agent Of Anarchy, a screenplay by Todd Borho, a author of science fiction with anarchist themes (and a non-fiction e-book titled Making The Oligarchy Out of date: Defining Issues Of Coercion And In search of Voluntary Options).

Our favourite undercover agent has gone rogue. The “actual” James Bond served the Queen, however James Bong serves nobody. He’s “dedicated to releasing folks from statist fingers.” It’s a fast-paced, slap-stick, absurdist spoof that simply would possibly make you query, “How did we get right here?” As a substitute of getting his orders from M, chief of MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, Bong solutions (or doesn’t, as his spirit strikes him) to Okay, a nerdy anarchist hacker. Okay, like Fleming’s Q, the ever-clever head of analysis and improvement for the British Secret Service, has a number of high-tech devices and techno instruments up his sleeve.

Excessive-Tech Devices and a New Crew

Okay communicates through Bong’s blockchain-encrypted smartwatch from his hacker lair in Acapulco, Mexico. Okay has a humanoid robotic named Symphy with no humorousness to reply the telephones, and a poster on his wall that reads “What If I Instructed You That Authorities Is Slavery?”

As a substitute of a Bentley, Bong drives a 3D-printed 1977 black Trans Am, or generally a 3D-printed midnight blue automobile modeled after the 1986 Ferrari Testarossa.

Changing Bond’s secretary, Miss Moneypenney is Miss Moneybit, a feisty blogger in Washington, D.C. (District of Criminals in anarchy-speak). Moneybit, Okay and Bong are in it for revenue — movies of Bong’s anti-establishment derring-dos on Moneybit’s weblog, Steemit, earn them 1000’s of {dollars}.

The motion begins close to Lake Tahoe on the California/Nevada border as Bond prepares to interrupt Ross Mulbricht out of a high-security federal jail. A tech market and crypto pioneer sentenced for operating an internet site known as the Silk Freeway on the Substratum community, Mulbricht is Okay’s hero.

Photographic contact lenses that seize an iris print from a guard get Bond into the jail, and he frees Mulbricht from his cell with a laser cutter. Okay hacks video of the escape from jail surveillance cameras and it shortly spreads all around the Net.

“The variety of folks on-line speaking about anarchy is rising exponentially. The ruling class should be hysterical proper now,” crows Miss Moneybit. “Individuals are studying about rights and anarchy due to our work,” provides Okay.

Among the many tens of millions who view the video is Trax, Bong’s former boss at MI6. Blackmailing the over-fed, sex-starved Common Small of the CIA into serving to him, Trax desires to convey Bong in from the chilly –and kill him. And each Okay and Moneybit are in his crosshairs, too.

Rescue Missions and Rebel

The plot zips alongside as Bong involves the rescue of assorted victims of the Institution. He saves the farm of a candy, outdated couple behind on their taxes, swooping in by helicopter to scare off two bumbling IRS brokers. (Okay units up a Cell411 group to crowdsource funds for the couple.)

Subsequent, Bong foils a DEA raid on Kushy Budz, the biggest marijuana dispensary in California by knocking out 30 brokers with aerosol THC. Among the many brokers is Ty Prince, Bong’s nemesis who works for a CIA entrance known as Cargo Options that runs medication from Mexico and Colombia.

From there, Bong breaks up Trax and Common Small’s intercourse trafficking operation, rescuing 20 underage teenage women and nabbing the $20 million that was about to alter fingers. The women get their freedom and the cash, and Trax and Small grow to be much more decided to seize Bong.

And all this occurs within the first 60 pages!

After some time, the plot could seem to devolve into a listing of issues to insurgent in opposition to. However as James Dean famously mentioned, “Whaddya obtained?”

James Bong: Agent Of Anarchy is the primary of Borho’s five-part The Evolution Saga. The writer says he’s “a person who’s foolish sufficient to write down books for a era of people that don’t learn!” And for these even much less inclined to learn, there’s an animated model of a James Bong escapade on his web site.

Publish Date: August 22, 2022

Style: Fiction, Humor

Writer: Todd Borho

Web page Depend: 300 pages

ISBN: 979-8990393110