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No Time To Die was a great wrap up for Daniel Craig but what happens to 007 and/or Bond next? Should Bond veer towards non-fiction and risk its escapism value or dare it risk reverting to the more incredulous make-believe of earlier years and face the tsunami of adverse criticism that the Gray Man got recently? Maybe Bond should get back to the basics. If you're an espionage aficionado, an Ian Fleming follower or a 007 devotee then you must know about puffer fish poisons and who wrote the Trout Memo and Beyond Enkription and why. If not, and you want to join the espionage illuminati, you had best Google “Trout Memo” and study The Burlington Files and Pemberton’s People in MI6. If Bond doesn't get real or more realistic we reckon the final nail in wee Jimmy Bond's coffin may have been hammered in by Jackson Lamb. Mick Herron's anti-Bond sentiments combine lethally with the sardonic humour of the Slough House series to unreservedly mock not just Bond but also British Intelligence which has lived too long off the overly ripe fruits Fleming left to rot! Time for a fresh start based on a real spy. If that happens you had best browse through the news articles published after August 2021 in TheBurlingtonFiles website and then read Beyond Enkription as long as you don't think all espionage thrillers should be written in John le Carré's style.