Reluctant Assassin

James Bond is dead!

Unwittingly caught up in the glamorous, dangerous world of international espionage, Delphine, a former high-class escort, kills a foreign ''diplomat'' after he tries to rape her.

The Reluctant Assassin follows the mother of twin five-year-old girls in her global pursuit of a psychotic despot who attempts to take over the world by flooding it with mobile phones that never need recharging.

If your nation signs a contract with the madman, you''re safe. Refuse, and the nuclear-powered phones that offer unlimited power to run everything from heavy industry to the household toaster, can be turned into bombs at the flick of a switch.

She assumes the mantle of 007 and crosses swords with the world''s most-feared assassin while trying to rescue 1,000 Uyghur children trapped in a Chinese mine.

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The Reluctant Assassin. The new 007 is a mother of twins on the trail of a megalomaniac bent on world domination via mobile phones.