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    The Moneypenny Diaries: Final Fling

    By Kate Westbrook and Samantha Weinberg

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    It's the mid-1960s and the British secret intelligence service has been hit by a series of defection scandals. Facing considerable personal danger, Jane Moneypenny joins forces with 007 to try to smoke out a mole that she is convinced is buried deep in the heart of MI6. But when Bond is sacked and M forced into retirement, Moneypenny may have to find him alone.

    Forty-two years later, Miss Moneypenny's niece and heir, Kate Westbrook, begins to suspect that her aunt's death was not an accident. She is sure the answers to what happened lie in the search for the mole – somewhere between the glamour of Jamaica to the treacherous beaches of the Outer Hebrides. But as she pieces the clues together, she realises that there are significant forces determined to prevent her learning the truth . . .

    Final Fling is the last entry in Kate Westbrook’s Moneypenny Diaries trilogy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIan Fleming Publications
    Release dateOct 2, 2012
    ISBN9781906772604
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    Kate Westbrook

    Kate Westbrook was born in 1970 and educated at Cambridge and Harvard. She has a doctorate in history, specialising in the emergence of post-colonial political structures. She has worked in Africa and Latin America and is the author of numerous articles, as well as two novels, as yet unpublished. She is a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

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    • 4/5
      I enjoyed Final Fling but I found it to be the weakest book in The Moneypenny Diaries series. Portions of the book dragged on a bit and it felt as if nothing much was happening for a while. Not until fairly late in the novel did the author give either Jane Moneypenny or herself much of an opportunity for action. I think that a lack of character development around a few newly introduced characters also weakened the novel. I did enjoy the "surprise" at the end, but it was not at all surprising to me (and a big hint earlier in the story made sure that the surprise would not be too surprising for real Bond fans). All in all, Final Fling was a decent enough conclusion to a very good trilogy, even if it wasn't the best book in the series.
    • 4/5
      The third and final book in the Moneypenny Diaries trilogy takes us through the end of our heroine’s life. Our heroine is Jane Moneypenny, private secretary to “M,” the mysterious head of the British intelligence service that also employed James Bond -- 007. A minor character in the James Bond stories by Ian Fleming, she is brought to center stage through her diaries, which are in the hands of a niece, Kate Westbrook (the author’s pen name), who is their ostensible editor. In Final Fling, the agency is being torn apart – and M eventually forced out – over the issue of whether or not there is a “mole” in the organization, feeding information to the enemy in “Redland,” or Russia. M believes there is; so does Jane. But it’s up to Kate Westbrook to come up with the answer and that’s the fun in Final Fling.When I started reading this series, I wasn’t so certain I would enjoy a book written in journal form. While the journal goes back to the 1960s, the more interesting narrative is the story with which Jane’s journal is interspersed – Kate’s struggles with editing and publishing the journals and her personal struggles finding answers to the question of Jane’s mysterious death. For the most part, Final Fling ties together all the loose ends. These books definitely have to be read in order. And they’re hard to find copies of, but worth the search.