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356: 24: 289: 157:. There is a story that when Gulyashki wrote the book about a "match" of Zakhov vs. Bond and Western film directors, when learned about this, offered to film it. However an unexpected obstacle arose against the book from the Communist Party-dominated Bulgarian Writers' Union, who accused Gulyashki in the treason of the 209:
07 wins the first round: while the professor attends a symposium in the Bulgarian city of Varna, 07 manages to kidnap him and his secretary Natalia, and to take them to a ship headed south. Zakhov is in hot pursuit and manages to sneak onto 07's ship under a false identity. At the end of the story,
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In the original, the two adversaries exchange threats, but do not touch each other. The plane from Mirny arrives, while Franklin is still a few hours away. While Avakoum and Konstantin Trofimov's secretary Natalia are busy getting the professor into the plane, 07 manages to disappear. Although
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There are some minor discrepancies between the Bulgarian original and the English translation, and a significant one at the end. In the English version, the book ends with a hand-to-hand fight between the two superheroes, and 07 is pushed into the icy precipice, presumably to his death.
273:Гергина Кръстева, Илонка Георгиева, Мария Панова, БЪЛГАРСКИЯТ ДЖЕЙМС БОНД ИЛИ ГОСПОДИН НИКОЙ – НЯКОЛКО КРИМИНАЛНИ СЮЖЕТА В БЪЛГАРСКАТА ЛИТЕРАТУРА, Bulgarian Language and Literature Volume 58, Number 2, 2016 Български език и литература, pp. 187-193 210:
07, Zakhov, the professor, and Natalia find themselves shipwrecked on an icy island near Antarctica. 07 is awaiting help from the U.S. icebreaker Franklin, while Zakhov is awaiting a plane from the Soviet polar station Mirny.
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scientist Konstantin Trofimov. 07's mission was to kidnap the Soviet scientist and steal the secrets of his invention (a kind of a powerful "ray").
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first published in 1966 and translated into English in 1967 (Sydney, Australia: Scripts. Paperback. 1967).
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morally defeated and unsuccessful in his mission, 07 remains alive, and even free.
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Western press compared Gulyashki's fictional detective Avakoum Zakhov with
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newspaper, under a cryptic title, with one zero removed:
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was not to kill James Bond (or 07), but to protect the
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