Silverfin

Do you know James Bond? Great big action hero, smooth with the ladies and an extremely fashionable dresser? Yes, well this book (and the others that follow) are about his childhood. He had quite a few adventures then as well, from stopping kidnappings to solving murders. Silverfin is about his first adventure, which takes place in Bond's home country, England. More specifically, Eton, where James is enrolled in a boarding school since both of his parents are dead. A boy at school has a fabously wealthy father, but both of them look unnatural, too healthy and vibrant. They practically glow and the father has a gleam of craziness in his eye. When a new friend of James's (Red Kelly, an Irish thug) cousin goes missing after fishing near Loch Silverfin, where the boy and his father reside in a weathered, stone castle, James decides to (or rather, is forced to by Red Kelly's persistence) investigate. But what he finds he beyond human comprehension.  What he finds is the end to the world as we knew it and hello to the deadliest weapon of war that could ever be imagined. The old castle holds more secrets then it's cold outside lets on...