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by Mark Gatiss (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster (3 Nov 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743257111
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743257114
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 32,389 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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LUCIFER BOX. He's tall, he's dark and, like the shark, he looks for trouble. Or so he wishes. For, with Queen Elizabeth newly established on her throne, the now elderly secret agent is reaching the end of his scandalous career. Despite his fast-approaching retirement, queer events leave Box unable to resist investigating one last case...Why have pillars of the Establishment started dying in bizarrely reckless accidents? Who are the deadly pay-masters of enigmatic assassin Kingdom Kum? And who or what is the mysterious Black Butterfly? From the seedy streets of Soho to the souks of Istanbul and the sun-drenched shores of Jamaica, Box must use his artistic licence to kill and eventually confront an enemy with its roots in his own notorious past. Can Lucifer Box save the day before the dying of the light?

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Mark Gatiss is one of The League of Gentlemen from the multi-award winning television show, and the author of the hit novels The Vesuvius Club and its sequel The Devil in Amber. He has also written acclaimed radio and television scripts, including episodes of Doctor Who and Poirot. He has a thick comma of hair that will never stay in place and a rather cruel mouth.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars for Queen and country, 6 Dec 2008
By William Rycroft "blogs @ Just William's Luck" (Hertfordshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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With the arrival of Daniel Craig and even a new novel penned by Sebastian Faulks, Bond has made a hell of a comeback into the public imagination. Lucifer Box, the secret agent created by The League of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss first inhabited Edwardian England in The Vesuvius Club, a period he was perfectly suited to as a wit, dandy, and general man about town. His second adventure, The Devil In Amber found Box a good twenty years older but his passions undimmed as he foiled the ambitions of a fascist conspiracy in 1920's New York. It was almost inevitable that his third and final outing would be set in Bond's 1950's and find him unwillingly on the verge of retirement. After the suspicious suicide of an old flame he finds himself drawn into a final test of his skills, 'If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.'

The plot follows a Bond like structure, exotic locations from Egypt to Jamaica and in spite of his age there's even a bit of action between the sheets for our hero (his advantage in this regard being that he bats 'for both the the First and Second Eleven, if you recall'). It doesn't quite hit the heights of his previous two outings but Gatiss has plenty of fun along the way, the Bond genre a perfect arena for his joyous punning. Every name and organisation is there to poke fun at something. Take for example 'Whitley Bey', half Turkish, half Geordie, 'the secret leader of a cadre of psychoanalysts-cum-mercenaries called the Jung Turks. Their speciality lay in imagining themselves into the mind of the enemy and then working out, through analysis, what their next move would be. If this failed they fell back on good old-fashioned Balkan brutality.'

To describe these books as a guilty pleasure would be a disservice to the writing. It's easy reading but in a joyous way, with plenty of wit to keep you chuckling. As stocking fillers go you could do far worse. There's also something still a little thrillingly controversial about having a bisexual leading man. Bond may be appealing to both men and women in his Speedos but I'm not sure he'd be prepared to go as far as Lucifer Box for Queen or country.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Box is back...., 6 Nov 2008
By D. A. Harris "davidharris52" (Oxford, UK) - See all my reviews
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The name's Box, Lucifer Box...

Yes, Gatiss's improbable spoof spy hero is back. Introduced in his youth ("The Vesuvius Club") in the decadent '90s (the 1890s, that is) appearing again middle aged in the 20s ("The Devil in Amber") and now facing retirement at the end of a hectic career, Box has to save the world one last time. His adventures take him to Istanbul and Jamaica, pursuing (in every sense) the enigmatic Kingdom Kum and the sinister Black Butterfly.

Each of these books is a take on a different action/ thriller genre. Box, now head of Her Majesty's Most Secret Service (cover name: The Royal Academy: head, Joshua Reynolds) takes on villains of the deepest dye, saved from certain death only by his native courage and agility.

Inevitably, perhaps, sooner or later Box would take on a Bond-like persona. While he carries this off with some aplomb, I'm not sure that the story rattles along with quite the same assurance as the earlier ones, hence 3 stars. But that is (I hope) only a minor quibble, this is still very good. Dare I hope for more Lucifer Box stories, to fill in the missing years?
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A ripping yarn,, 31 Dec 2008
By Martin Dolphin (Cheshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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I've really enjoyed Mark Gatiss's earlier two Lucifer Box novels - moody, sexy and plenty of tongue in cheek fun. This latest novel is ok, but not a patch on the earlier ones - as others have pointed out he's a bit too bond like and I think Gatiss has aged him too quickly - he's retiring in this book. Maybe as a result it's no where near as sexy as the previous too.

Good, but not brilliant!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Snooker, woggles, lost youth and diabolical masterminds
The third of Mark Gatiss's LUCIFER BOX novels is the usual enjoyable mix of preposterous names and ridiculous situations that were the meat and drink of THE VESUVIUS CLUB and THE... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars A satisfactory rather than a satisfying end
I'd say this was the weakest of the trilogy - however that still leaves plenty of room for a good book, which this is. Read more
Published 3 months ago by G. Crosby

4.0 out of 5 stars Lucifer Box still lives!
Just as enjoyable a fantasy with the old reprobate, Lucifer, as the previous two books. Don't expect it to be in any way realistic or even possible - in the true 'Bond' tradition... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Louise Buxton

3.0 out of 5 stars Expectations too high!
Eagerly awaited this latest Lucifer Box novel and found it a bit lack lustre compared to the first two outings however even if i had read a less than positive feedback before hand... Read more
Published 3 months ago by JLD

5.0 out of 5 stars "Opening the last Box?"
Many moons ago Colonel Sun author Kingsley Amis had an idea for a Bond short story that would be the last adventure for the character. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Bob Marlowe

3.0 out of 5 stars Bond? Lucifer Bond?
Having thoroughly enjoying the two previous Lucifer Box books, when I realised there was a third, I had to read it. Read more
Published 5 months ago by M. A. Smith

4.0 out of 5 stars Lucifer Box Is Back & On Fone Form
I have always love the Lucifer Box books and read the first two as soon as they came out in paperback. Read more
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