Although he died in May 2015, his death only became widely known in October when Roger Moore published the news on Twitter, saying: "He wrote two of my best.".
Is to date the only James Bond movie writer who has been given the
chance to write novels based upon his scripts: The Spy Who Loved Me and
Moonraker.
One of the keys of writing a Bond-movie, is to do the same thing, just differently.
About working on Moonraker: I felt like being James Bond myself; travel to exotic places, private Lear-jets, the best food and wine, beautiful women, beautiful situations -and getting paid for it!