James Bong: Agent Of Anarchy by Todd Borho

James Bong: Agent of Anarchy by Todd Borho

The “real” James Bond served the Queen, but James Bond serves no one.

James Bond has been busy. Since 1952, when Ian Fleming published Casino Royalethe first of his spy novels starring 007, the subsequent Bond books have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. An estimated 47 percent of people in the United States have seen at least one of the 27 Bond films; 27 percent have seen them all.

A new interpretation of a classic spy novel

A new addition for Bond fans is James Bong: Agent of Anarchya script by Todd Borhoan author of science fiction with anarchist themes (and a non-fiction book entitled Making the oligarchy obsolete: defining coercive problems and looking for voluntary solutions).

Our favorite secret agent has gone astray. The “real” James Bond served the Queen, but James Bong serves no one. He is “dedicated to liberating people from state power.” It’s a fast-paced, absurd slapstick parody that will make you ask, “How did we get here?” Instead of taking orders from M, the head of MI6, Bong reports to K, a nerdy anarchist hacker (or not, depending on what he’s thinking of). K, like Fleming’s Q, the ever-smart head of research and development for British intelligence, has plenty of high-tech gadgets and technical tools up his sleeve.

High-tech equipment and a new crew

K communicates via Bong’s blockchain-encrypted smartwatch from his hacker hideout in Acapulco, Mexico. He has a humanoid robot named Symphy with no sense of humor who answers the phone, and a poster on his wall reads, “What if I told you government is slavery?”

Instead of a Bentley, Bong drives a 3D-printed black 1977 Trans Am or sometimes a 3D-printed midnight blue car modeled after the 1986 Ferrari Testarossa.

Bond’s secretary, Miss Moneypenney, is replaced by Miss Moneybit, a feisty blogger from Washington, DC (in anarchist parlance, the District of Criminals). Moneybit, K, and Bong are in this for the profit—videos of Bong’s daring anti-establishment actions on Moneybit’s blog Steemit earn them thousands of dollars.

The action begins near Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada border, as Bond prepares to free Ross Mulbricht from a maximum security prison. Mulbricht, a technology and cryptocurrency pioneer convicted of running a website called Silk Highway on the Substratum network, is K’s hero.

Using photographic contact lenses that capture a guard’s iris print, Bond gets into the prison and uses a laser cutter to free Mulbricht from his cell. K hacks the video of the escape from the prison’s security cameras and it quickly spreads across the internet.

“The number of people talking about anarchy online is growing exponentially. The ruling class must be hysterical right now,” crows Miss Moneybit. “Thanks to our work, people are learning about rights and anarchy,” adds K.

Among the millions who see the video is Trax, Bong’s former boss at MI6. Trax blackmails the overfed, sex-starved General Small of the CIA into helping him. He wants to bring Bong in from the cold – and kill him. And K and Moneybit also end up in his crosshairs.

Rescue missions and rebellion

The plot progresses as Bong comes to the aid of various victims of the establishment. He saves the farm of a nice old couple who are behind on their taxes by flying in in a helicopter to chase away two bumbling IRS agents. (K starts a Cell411 group to crowdfund money for the couple.)

Next, Bong thwarts a DEA raid on Kushy Budz, the largest marijuana dispensary in California, by incapacitating 30 agents with THC aerosol. Among the agents is Ty Prince, Bong’s arch-enemy who works for a CIA front organization called Cargo Solutions that smuggles drugs from Mexico and Colombia.

From there, Bong busts Trax and General Small’s sex trafficking operation, rescues 20 underage girls, and grabs the $20 million that was about to change hands. The girls get their freedom and the money, and Trax and Small are even more determined to catch Bong.

And all this happens in the first 60 pages!

After a while, the plot seems to devolve into a list of things to rebel against. But as James Dean once said, “What have you got?”

James Bong: Agent of Anarchy is the first of Borho’s five-part The evolution sagaThe author says he is “a person stupid enough to write books for a generation of people who don’t read!” And for those even less inclined to read, there is an animated version of a James Bong escapade on his website.

About Todd Borho:

Todd Borho, winner of the Literary Titan Book Award, is the author of the five-part science fiction series The Evolution Saga. Todd has also written nearly a dozen other titles. He has been a teacher in exotic countries around the world. He is a coffee fanatic, science fiction junkie, and hot sauce lover.