Austin set down his martini. "Is it the Russians, Basil? The Chinese? Or perhaps that chap with the eye patch who keeps sending me angry postcards?"
Dr. Evil spun around, his face contorted in mock rage. "Silence! I will not be lectured on fiscal responsibility by a man who wears a patch over one eye! I am the architect of your doom! I am the puppet master! I am... feeling a bit chilly. Someone turn up the thermostat!" austin powers novelisation
The world had changed. The Beatles had broken up. Disco had come and gone. The Berlin Wall had fallen. And in a secret military facility in Nevada, two blocks of ice were being wheeled into a laboratory. Austin set down his martini
He stood up, pacing nervously. "Therefore, I have decided to freeze myself. I will place myself in suspended animation, to be thawed at a time when the world is ready for my particular brand of... shall we say, 'evil'?" Or perhaps that chap with the eye patch
The novelization was published by Bantam Books, approximately six months after the film's release in May 1997. The book's cover features a cartoonish illustration of Mike Myers as Austin Powers, complete with his signature velvet suit and mojo-fueled grin.