James Bond (novels)
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From 1953 to the present day , dozens of novels and a number of short stories
have been published chronicling the adventures of a British secret agent James Bond
, often referred to by his code name, 007. The character was created by Ian Fleming
, first appearing in his novel Casino Royale
(1953).
Following Fleming's 1964 death and the posthumous publication of some remnant works by him over the next few years, others were commissioned to write continuation novels. These post-Fleming novels were issued sporadically in the late 1960s and '70s, then regularly between 1981 and 2002, at which point the series was put on hiatus. Two spinoff series of books, Young Bond
and The Moneypenny Diaries
, were published after this point, but in the spring of 2008 the original James Bond novel series returned with the publication of a new work by Sebastian Faulks
.
began work on his first James Bond novel. At the time, Fleming was the Foreign Manager for Kemsley Newspapers, an organisation owned by The Sunday Times
. Upon accepting the job, Fleming requested that he be allowed two months vacation per year. Every year thereafter, until his death in 1964, Fleming would retreat for the first two months of the year to his Jamaican estate, Goldeneye, to write a James Bond
book.
Fleming had long planned to become an author; while serving in the Naval Intelligence Division
during World War II
he had told a friend, "I am going to write the spy story to end all spy stories." Fleming used his espionage career and all other aspects of his life as inspiration when writing:
Between 1953 and 1966, twelve James Bond novels and two short story collections
by Fleming were published, including one novel and one collection issued posthumously. (It is still argued whether Fleming himself actually finished 1965's The Man with the Golden Gun, as he died very soon after it is known to have been completed.)
.
His first collection of stories, For Your Eyes Only, arose from teleplay
s he had written for a CBS
television series under development based on the Bond character. When that project fell through, Fleming reworked them into the short stories 'Risico', 'For Your Eyes Only', and 'From a View to a Kill'. This collection was rounded out with two more pieces, 'Quantum of Solace' and 'The Hildebrand Rarity', which earlier Fleming had sold to magazines.
A posthumously issued second anthology, Octopussy and The Living Daylights (in some editions titled merely Octopussy), originally contained only the two title stories. Two other stories previously published in periodicals were incorporated into later editions: 'The Property of a Lady' beginning with the 1967 mass market paperback edition and '007 in New York' beginning with a 2002 trade paperback.
In 2008, all the Bond stories were published together for the first time in a single volume, Quantum of Solace: The complete James Bond short stories, which was simply a back-to-back compilation of the two previous Bond story collections. The title of this omnibus collection was timed for the release, later that same year, of the Bond film Quantum of Solace, which had been named for one of the stories (though the film's plot was unrelated to that story).
There are some distinct differences between Griswold's chronology from the publishing history of this material. One is that the stories are sequenced much differently from how they are arranged within each of the two story collections. Another is that a considerable time gap, between the fifth and sixth chapters of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, is now partially bridged by one of the stories and part of one of the other novels.
:
, publishers of the James Bond novels, planned a new book series, credited to the pseudonym "Robert Markham
" and written by a rotating series of authors. After James Leasor
declined an offer to write the first continuation novel, the copyright holders commissioned Kingsley Amis
. Using the Robert Markham pseudonym, Amis published only one Bond novel, 1968's Colonel Sun
. Amis had previously written two books on the world of James Bond, the 1964 essay The James Bond Dossier
and the tongue-in-cheek 1965 release The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007
(written under the pseudonym "Lt.-Col. William ("Bill") Tanner
", a recurring character in the Bond novels). Numerous sources have debunked rumours that Amis was the ghost writer of The Man with the Golden Gun
.
In 1973, Fleming biographer John Pearson
wrote a fictional biography of the fictional character James Bond. Pearson's James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007
is written in the first person as if the author had been meeting the secret agent himself. The book was well-received by aficionados, readers and viewers alike. Since the book has many discrepancies with Fleming's Bond (for example his birth year), the canonical status of James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007 is debated among fans. Some do not consider it part of the official series, though at least one publisher, Pan Books, issued it as an official novel along with the rest of Fleming's series for its first paperback edition. Prior to writing this, Pearson had written an early biography of Ian Fleming, The Life of Ian Fleming
.
In 1977, the film The Spy Who Loved Me
was released and, due to the radical differences between the film and the original novel of the same name, Glidrose authorised a novelization, James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me
. The 1979 film Moonraker
was also novelised, as James Bond and Moonraker
. Both books, the first Bond novelizations, were written by screenwriter Christopher Wood
.
In the 1980s, the series was finally revived with new novels by John Gardner
. Between 1981 and 1996, he wrote fourteen James Bond novels and two screenplay novelizations, surpassing Fleming's original output. The biggest change in Gardner's series was updating 007's world to the 1980s; however, it would keep the characters the same age as they were in Fleming's novels.
In 1996, Gardner retired from writing James Bond books due to ill health and American Raymond Benson
quickly replaced him. As a James Bond novelist, Benson was initially controversial for being American, and for ignoring much of the continuity established by Gardner. Benson had previously written 1984's The James Bond Bedside Companion
, a book dedicated to Ian Fleming, the official novels, and the films. Benson had also contributed to the creation of several modules in the popular James Bond 007 role-playing game
in the 1980s and several Bond video games. Benson wrote six James Bond novels, three novelizations, and three short stories.
Unlike Fleming's short stories, Benson's were not gathered together in any kind of collection. They eventually saw book publication as additional material in each of the two "Omnibus" editions of Benson's novels. Benson also wrote a fourth short story entitled "The Heart of Erzulie" that was rejected for publication.
Benson abruptly resigned as Bond novelist at the end of 2002 to write original, non-Bond works of his own. At the same time, Ian Fleming Publications planned to focus on reissuing Fleming's original novels for the 50th anniversary of the character and re-examine its publishing strategy. The year 2003 marked the first year since 1985 that a new James Bond novel had not been published.
Glidrose twice approached Lee Child
, author of the Jack Reacher
novels, about writing for Bond. Initially they wanted him to continue the ongoing series. They approached him again about writing the centenary novel.http://www.k1bond007.com/2007/06/06/not-child/
. Written by Charlie Higson
the series aligns faithfully with the adult Bond's back-story established by Fleming in Bond's obituary in You Only Live Twice. The first novel, SilverFin, was released to good reviews in 2005 and became an international bestseller. The second novel, Blood Fever, released in 2006, did even better, topping the children's best-selling list in the UK and holding the spot for eleven weeks. The following books, Double or Die, Hurricane Gold, and By Royal Command all proved to be bestsellers. While the series was planned as a five book set (ending with Bond's expulsion from Eton), Charlie Higson has stated that, because of the success of the series, he will most likely be writing more Young Bond novels in the future.
The first Young Bond novel, SilverFin, was released as a graphic novel on 2 October 2008. The book was written by Charlie Higson and illustrated by renowned comic book artist Kev Walker
. A Young Bond companion book, Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier
was released in October 2009. It included a new Young Bond short story, called "A Hard Man to Kill" by Charlie Higson.
In December 2010, all five Young Bond books were released as eBooks by Ian Fleming Publications.
, M
's personal secretary. The novels are penned by Samantha Weinberg
under the pseudonym
Kate Westbrook, who is depicted as the book's "editor". The first instalment of the trilogy, subtitled Guardian Angel
, was released on 10 October 2005 in the UK. A second volume, subtitled Secret Servant
was released on 2 November 2006 in the UK http://web.mac.com/zencato/iWeb/Young_Bond/News/BB07046F-DA4F-4D05-ABAE-5BC64DF73221.html. A third volume, subtitled Final Fling
was released on 10 July 2008.
Weinberg is the first woman to write officially licensed Bond-related literature, although Johanna Harwood had previously co-written the screenplay for Dr. No and had adapted From Russia with Love for the screen.
The novels had originally been touted as the secret journal of a "real" Miss Moneypenny and that James Bond was a possible pseudonym for a genuine intelligence officer, an idea shared by John Pearson's earlier biography, James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007. The publisher, John Murray
, admitted on 28 August 2005 that the books were a spoof after an investigation by The Sunday Times of London. Ian Fleming Publications, who had previously refused to comment as to whether the book was authorised, officially confirmed the book was and always had been a project by them on the day of the book's publication.
In addition to the novels, Weinberg also wrote two short stories that were published in 2006. The first, "For Your Eyes Only, James" describes a weekend Bond and Moneypenny spend in Royale-les-Eaux in 1956. The story appeared in the November 2006 issue of Tatler magazine http://web.mac.com/zencato/iWeb/Young_Bond/News/EDF4EDA6-F2B3-4A60-BC8F-E7A94EDB538E.html. The second "Moneypenny's First Date With Bond" tells the tale of Bond and Moneypenny's first meeting. The story appeared in the 11 November 2006 issue of The Spectator
. These stories remain uncollected as of 2010.
announced that a new James Bond novel would be published in May 2008 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Ian Fleming's birth. Initially, IFP kept the identity of the author secret, but in July 2007 it was announced that the centenary novel would be Devil May Care
by Sebastian Faulks
. It was published on 28 May 2008, on what would have been Ian Fleming's 100th birthday.
The existence of the continuation novels published between 1968 and 2002 (not counting the related Young Bond and Moneypenny Diaries series) was underplayed in the announcement of Faulks' book, which was promoted as a direct continuation of Fleming's canon. As such, many media reports (such as, for example, the one posted by AOL Entertainment ) made no reference to the work of Amis through Benson, stating outright that Devil May Care is the first new Bond novel since the 1960s. A similar error occurred in an Associated Press
report on 8 January 2008 that stated only 13 post-Fleming novels had been published prior to Devil May Care.
Devil May Care is the first release of a new imprint
of Penguin Books
called Penguin 007, which will also reprint the original Fleming novels.
was published on May 26, 2011 in the UK by Hodder and Stoughton and on June 14, 2011 in the U.S. by Simon & Schuster. The book is called Carte Blanche
and its title and cover artwork were unveiled on January 17, 2011, at a special launch event at the InterContinental Hotel in Dubai. Unlike Devil May Care, it is set in contemporary times and will feature a younger James Bond. Other locations include South Africa, Serbia and the UK. The book was officially launched on 25 May 2011 (one day before public sale in the UK and Commonwealth
) at St Pancras Station in Central London. Here, Deaver arrived in a branded Carte Blanche Bentley
and was accompanied by model, actress and stunt driver Chesca Miles. Of the novel, Deaver remarked: "In reading Carte Blanche fans will be treated to a typical, relentless, fast paced, rollercoaster of a Jeffery Deaver novel centred around everyone’s favourite spy, James Bond 007, who, the poor fellow, never gets a moment’s rest throughout the entire book."
Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
have been published chronicling the adventures of a British secret agent James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
, often referred to by his code name, 007. The character was created by Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer.Fleming is best known for creating the fictional British spy James Bond and for a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the character, one of the biggest-selling series of fictional books of...
, first appearing in his novel Casino Royale
Casino Royale (novel)
Casino Royale is Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel. It paved the way for a further eleven novels by Fleming himself, in addition to two short story collections, followed by many "continuation" Bond novels by other authors....
(1953).
Following Fleming's 1964 death and the posthumous publication of some remnant works by him over the next few years, others were commissioned to write continuation novels. These post-Fleming novels were issued sporadically in the late 1960s and '70s, then regularly between 1981 and 2002, at which point the series was put on hiatus. Two spinoff series of books, Young Bond
Young Bond
Young Bond is a series of five young adult spy novels by Charlie Higson featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond as a young teenage boy attending school at Eton College in the 1930s...
and The Moneypenny Diaries
The Moneypenny Diaries
The Moneypenny Diaries is a series of novels and short stories chronicling the life of Miss Moneypenny, M's personal secretary in Ian Fleming's James Bond series; it is considered an official spin-off of the Bond books...
, were published after this point, but in the spring of 2008 the original James Bond novel series returned with the publication of a new work by Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks
-Early life:Faulks was born on 20 April 1953 in Donnington, Berkshire to Peter Faulks and Pamela . Edward Faulks, Baron Faulks, is his older brother. He was educated at Elstree School, Reading and went on to Wellington College, Berkshire...
.
Overview
In January 1952, Ian FlemingIan Fleming
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer.Fleming is best known for creating the fictional British spy James Bond and for a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the character, one of the biggest-selling series of fictional books of...
began work on his first James Bond novel. At the time, Fleming was the Foreign Manager for Kemsley Newspapers, an organisation owned by The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times...
. Upon accepting the job, Fleming requested that he be allowed two months vacation per year. Every year thereafter, until his death in 1964, Fleming would retreat for the first two months of the year to his Jamaican estate, Goldeneye, to write a James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
book.
Fleming had long planned to become an author; while serving in the Naval Intelligence Division
Naval Intelligence Division
The Naval Intelligence Division was the intelligence arm of the British Admiralty before the establishment of a unified Defence Staff in 1965. It dealt with matters concerning British naval plans, with the collection of naval intelligence...
during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
he had told a friend, "I am going to write the spy story to end all spy stories." Fleming used his espionage career and all other aspects of his life as inspiration when writing:
Between 1953 and 1966, twelve James Bond novels and two short story collections
Anthology
An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...
by Fleming were published, including one novel and one collection issued posthumously. (It is still argued whether Fleming himself actually finished 1965's The Man with the Golden Gun, as he died very soon after it is known to have been completed.)
List of books, by publication sequence
| Book | Genre | Earliest publication | Present-day English-language publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casino Royale Casino Royale (novel) Casino Royale is Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel. It paved the way for a further eleven novels by Fleming himself, in addition to two short story collections, followed by many "continuation" Bond novels by other authors.... |
Novel | London: Jonathan Cape Jonathan Cape Jonathan Cape was a London-based publisher founded in 1919 as "Page & Co" by Herbert Jonathan Cape , formerly a manager at Duckworth who had worked his way up from a position of bookshop errand boy. Cape brought with him the rights to cheap editions of the popular author Elinor Glyn and sales of... , 13 April 1953 |
Penguin Group Penguin Group The Penguin Group is a trade book publisher, the largest in the world , having overtaken Random House in 2009. The Penguin Group is the name of the incorporated division of parent Pearson PLC that oversees these publishing operations... ; e.g. its Classics and U.S. imprint Imprint In the publishing industry, an imprint can mean several different things:* As a piece of bibliographic information about a book, it refers to the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication as given at the foot or on the verso of its title page.* It can mean a trade name... s |
| Live and Let Die Live and Let Die (novel) Live and Let Die is the second novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1954, where the initial print run of 7,500 copies quickly sold out. As with Fleming's first novel, Casino Royale, Live and Let Die was broadly well received by the critics... |
Novel | Jonathan Cape, 5 April 1954 | Penguin Group; e.g. its Classics and U.S. imprints |
| Moonraker | Novel | Jonathan Cape, 7 April 1955 | Penguin Group; e.g. its Classics and U.S. imprints |
| Diamonds Are Forever Diamonds Are Forever (novel) Diamonds Are Forever is the fourth of Ian Fleming's James Bond series of novels. It was first published by Jonathan Cape in the UK on 26 March 1956 and the first print run of 12,500 copies sold out quickly... |
Novel | Jonathan Cape, 26 March 1956 | Penguin Group; e.g. its Classics and U.S. imprints |
| From Russia, with Love | Novel | Jonathan Cape, 8 April 1957 | Penguin Group; e.g. its Classics and U.S. imprints |
| Dr. No | Novel | Jonathan Cape, 31 March 1958 | Penguin Group; e.g. its Classics and U.S. imprints |
| Goldfinger | Novel | Jonathan Cape, 23 March 1959 | Penguin Group; e.g. its Classics and U.S. imprints |
| For Your Eyes Only | Story Short story A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because... collection Anthology An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts... |
Jonathan Cape, 11 April 1960 | Penguin Group; e.g. its Classics and U.S. imprints |
| Thunderball | Novel | Jonathan Cape, 27 March 1961 | Penguin Group; e.g. its Classics and U.S. imprints |
| The Spy Who Loved Me | Novel | Jonathan Cape, 16 April 1962 | Penguin Group; e.g. its Classics and U.S. imprints |
| On Her Majesty's Secret Service | Novel | Jonathan Cape, 1 April 1963 | Penguin Group; e.g. its Classics and U.S. imprints |
| You Only Live Twice | Novel | Jonathan Cape, 16 March 1964 | Penguin Group; e.g. its Classics and U.S. imprints |
| The Man with the Golden Gun The Man with the Golden Gun (novel) The Man with the Golden Gun is the twelfth novel of Ian Fleming's James Bond series of books. It was first published by Jonathan Cape in the UK on 1 April 1965, eight months after the author's death. The novel was not as detailed or polished as the others in the series, leading to poor but polite... |
Novel | Jonathan Cape, 1 April 1965 (posthumous) | Penguin Group; e.g. its Classics and U.S. imprints |
| Octopussy and The Living Daylights Octopussy and The Living Daylights Octopussy and The Living Daylights is the fourteenth and final James Bond book written by Ian Fleming in the Bond series... |
Story collection | Jonathan Cape, 1966 (posthumous) | Penguin Group; e.g. its Classics and U.S. imprints |
Overview
Having already embarked on a commercially and critically successful series of Bond novels, Fleming by the late 1950s began occasionally to sell Bond short stories to high-profile periodicalsPeriodical publication
Periodical literature is a published work that appears in a new edition on a regular schedule. The most familiar examples are the newspaper, often published daily, or weekly; or the magazine, typically published weekly, monthly or as a quarterly...
.
His first collection of stories, For Your Eyes Only, arose from teleplay
Teleplay
A teleplay is a television play, a comedy or drama written or adapted for television. The term surfaced during the 1950s with wide usage to distinguish a television plays from stage plays for the theater and screenplays written for films...
s he had written for a CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
television series under development based on the Bond character. When that project fell through, Fleming reworked them into the short stories 'Risico', 'For Your Eyes Only', and 'From a View to a Kill'. This collection was rounded out with two more pieces, 'Quantum of Solace' and 'The Hildebrand Rarity', which earlier Fleming had sold to magazines.
A posthumously issued second anthology, Octopussy and The Living Daylights (in some editions titled merely Octopussy), originally contained only the two title stories. Two other stories previously published in periodicals were incorporated into later editions: 'The Property of a Lady' beginning with the 1967 mass market paperback edition and '007 in New York' beginning with a 2002 trade paperback.
In 2008, all the Bond stories were published together for the first time in a single volume, Quantum of Solace: The complete James Bond short stories, which was simply a back-to-back compilation of the two previous Bond story collections. The title of this omnibus collection was timed for the release, later that same year, of the Bond film Quantum of Solace, which had been named for one of the stories (though the film's plot was unrelated to that story).
List of individual stories, by publication sequence
| Short story | Earliest publication |
|---|---|
| 'Quantum of Solace' | Cosmopolitan Cosmopolitan (magazine) Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s... (magazine), May 1959 |
| 'The Hildebrand Rarity' | Playboy Playboy Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with... (magazine), March 1960 |
| 'From a View to a Kill' | For Your Eyes Only (story collection), Jonathan Cape Jonathan Cape Jonathan Cape was a London-based publisher founded in 1919 as "Page & Co" by Herbert Jonathan Cape , formerly a manager at Duckworth who had worked his way up from a position of bookshop errand boy. Cape brought with him the rights to cheap editions of the popular author Elinor Glyn and sales of... , 11 April 1960 |
| 'For Your Eyes Only' | Ibid. |
| 'Risico' | Ibid. |
| 'The Living Daylights' | The Sunday Times The Sunday Times The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times... (newspaper), 4 February 1962 |
| 'Agent 007 in New York' | New York Herald Tribune New York Herald Tribune The New York Herald Tribune was a daily newspaper created in 1924 when the New York Tribune acquired the New York Herald.Other predecessors, which had earlier merged into the New York Tribune, included the original The New Yorker newsweekly , and the Whig Party's Log Cabin.The paper was home to... (newspaper), October 1963 |
| 'The Property of a Lady' | The Ivory Hammer (Sotheby's Sotheby's Sotheby's is the world's fourth oldest auction house in continuous operation.-History:The oldest auction house in operation is the Stockholms Auktionsverk founded in 1674, the second oldest is Göteborgs Auktionsverk founded in 1681 and third oldest being founded in 1731, all Swedish... annual Annual publication An annual publication, more often called simply an annual, is a book or a magazine, comic book or comic strip published yearly. For example, a weekly or monthly publication may produce an Annual featuring similar materials to the regular publication.... ), November 1963 |
| 'Octopussy' | Posthumously serialised Serial (literature) In literature, a serial is a publishing format by which a single large work, most often a work of narrative fiction, is presented in contiguous installments—also known as numbers, parts, or fascicles—either issued as separate publications or appearing in sequential issues of a single periodical... in Playboy, March and April 1966 |
List of story collections, by publication sequence
| Story collection | Earliest publication | Contents (as editorially sequenced) |
|---|---|---|
| For Your Eyes Only | Jonathan Cape, 11 April 1960 | Five stories: 'From a View to a Kill'; 'For Your Eyes Only'; 'Quantum of Solace'; 'Risico'; 'The Hildebrand Rarity' |
| Octopussy and The Living Daylights | Jonathan Cape, 23 June 1966 (posthumous) | Originally two, and later three and then four, stories: 'Octopussy' (in original edition); 'The Property of a Lady' (added, 1967); 'The Living Daylights' (in original edition); '007 in New York' (added, 2002) |
| Quantum of Solace | Penguin Group, 29 May 2008 (posthumous Octopussy and The Living Daylights Octopussy and The Living Daylights is the fourteenth and final James Bond book written by Ian Fleming in the Bond series... ) |
Compilation of both previous collections, containing all nine stories: 'From a View to a Kill'; 'For Your Eyes Only'; 'Quantum of Solace'; 'Risico'; 'The Hildebrand Rarity'; 'Octopussy'; 'The Property of a Lady'; 'The Living Daylights'; '007 in New York' |
Overview
John Griswold, an independent scholar, has attempted to construct a chronological sequencing of Fleming's Bond fiction according to the logic of depicted events and actual time periods referenced therein. Griswold calls this a 'high level chronology after impacts by sequence of books published', distinguishing it from the order in which these works were written, published, or, within each short story collection, arranged. He also deliberately discounts the chronological significance of actual historic events mentioned in the novels and stories, arguing that Fleming made such references for effect without bothering to synchronise them accurately to his fiction.There are some distinct differences between Griswold's chronology from the publishing history of this material. One is that the stories are sequenced much differently from how they are arranged within each of the two story collections. Another is that a considerable time gap, between the fifth and sixth chapters of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, is now partially bridged by one of the stories and part of one of the other novels.
Chronology
John Griswold's chronological sequence of James Bond's fictional careerCareer
Career is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as a person's "course or progress through life ". It is usually considered to pertain to remunerative work ....
:
- 1. Casino RoyaleCasino Royale (novel)Casino Royale is Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel. It paved the way for a further eleven novels by Fleming himself, in addition to two short story collections, followed by many "continuation" Bond novels by other authors....
(1953 novel) - 2. Live and Let DieLive and Let Die (novel)Live and Let Die is the second novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1954, where the initial print run of 7,500 copies quickly sold out. As with Fleming's first novel, Casino Royale, Live and Let Die was broadly well received by the critics...
(1954 novel) - 3. Moonraker (1955 novel)
- 4. Diamonds Are ForeverDiamonds Are Forever (novel)Diamonds Are Forever is the fourth of Ian Fleming's James Bond series of novels. It was first published by Jonathan Cape in the UK on 26 March 1956 and the first print run of 12,500 copies sold out quickly...
(1956 novel) - 5. From Russia, with Love (1957 novel)
- 6. Dr. No (1958 novel)
- 7. Goldfinger (1959 novel)
- 8. 'Risico' (1960 short story)
- 9. 'Quantum of Solace' (1959 short story)
- 10. 'The Hildebrand Rarity' (1960 short story)
- 11. 'From a View to a Kill' (1960 short story)
- 12. 'For Your Eyes Only' (1960 short story)
- 13. Thunderball (1961 novel)
- 14. 'Octopussy' (1966 short story)
- 15. 'The Living Daylights' (1962 short story)
- 16. 'The Property of a Lady' (1963 short story)
- 17. ChaptersChapter (books)A chapter is one of the main divisions of a piece of writing of relative length, such as a book. Chapters can be numbered in the case of such writings as law code or they can be titled. For example, the first chapters of some well-known novels are titled:*"The Boy Who Lived" – Harry Potter...
1–5 of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963 novel) - 18. 'Agent 007 in New York' (1963 short story)
- 19. Chapters 10–15 of The Spy Who Loved Me (1962 novel)
- 20. Chapters 6–20 of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963 novel)
- 21. You Only Live Twice (1964 novel)
- 22. The Man With the Golden GunThe Man with the Golden Gun (novel)The Man with the Golden Gun is the twelfth novel of Ian Fleming's James Bond series of books. It was first published by Jonathan Cape in the UK on 1 April 1965, eight months after the author's death. The novel was not as detailed or polished as the others in the series, leading to poor but polite...
(1965 novel)
Post-Fleming James Bond novels
Following Fleming's death in 1964, Glidrose ProductionsIan Fleming Publications
Ian Fleming Publications is the production company formerly known as both Glidrose Productions Limited and Glidrose Publications Limited, named after its founders John Gliddon and Norman Rose...
, publishers of the James Bond novels, planned a new book series, credited to the pseudonym "Robert Markham
Robert Markham
Robert Markham is a pseudonym created by Glidrose Publications in the mid-1960s. By 1967, Glidrose, the publishers of the James Bond novel series created by Ian Fleming, had exhausted all available material written by Fleming before his death in 1964...
" and written by a rotating series of authors. After James Leasor
James Leasor
James Leasor was a prolific British author, who wrote historical books and thrillers. Leasor's 1978 book, Boarding Party, about an incident that took place in the Second World War, was turned into a film, The Sea Wolves, starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore and David Niven.-Biography:Leasor was born...
declined an offer to write the first continuation novel, the copyright holders commissioned Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along with works of social and literary criticism...
. Using the Robert Markham pseudonym, Amis published only one Bond novel, 1968's Colonel Sun
Colonel Sun
Colonel Sun , by Kingsley Amis, is the first James Bond continuation novel published after Ian Fleming's death in 1964; Glidrose Productions used the collective pseudonym "Robert Markham", for British novelist Kingsley Amis, with the intent of so publishing other novels by different writers...
. Amis had previously written two books on the world of James Bond, the 1964 essay The James Bond Dossier
The James Bond Dossier
The James Bond Dossier , by Kingsley Amis, is a critical analysis of the James Bond novels. Amis dedicated the book to friend and background collaborator, the poet and historian Robert Conquest...
and the tongue-in-cheek 1965 release The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007
The Book of Bond
The Book of Bond or, Every Man His Own 007 is a book by Kingsley Amis which was first published by Jonathan Cape in 1965. For this work, Amis used the pseudonym Lt.-Col. William Tanner...
(written under the pseudonym "Lt.-Col. William ("Bill") Tanner
Bill Tanner
Bill Tanner is a fictional character in the James Bond film and novel series.-Character summary:Superb in a crisis, and blessed with a dry sense of humour, Tanner is M's Chief of Staff. He is also Bond's staunchest ally in the Service, and they often enjoy a round of golf when off-duty...
", a recurring character in the Bond novels). Numerous sources have debunked rumours that Amis was the ghost writer of The Man with the Golden Gun
The Man with the Golden Gun (novel)
The Man with the Golden Gun is the twelfth novel of Ian Fleming's James Bond series of books. It was first published by Jonathan Cape in the UK on 1 April 1965, eight months after the author's death. The novel was not as detailed or polished as the others in the series, leading to poor but polite...
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In 1973, Fleming biographer John Pearson
John Pearson (author)
John Pearson is a writer best associated with James Bond creator Ian Fleming.Pearson was Fleming's assistant at the London Sunday Times and would go on to write the first biography of Ian Fleming, 1966's The Life of Ian Fleming....
wrote a fictional biography of the fictional character James Bond. Pearson's James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007
James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007
James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007 , by John Pearson, is a fictional biography of James Bond; Pearson also wrote the biography The Life of Ian Fleming ....
is written in the first person as if the author had been meeting the secret agent himself. The book was well-received by aficionados, readers and viewers alike. Since the book has many discrepancies with Fleming's Bond (for example his birth year), the canonical status of James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007 is debated among fans. Some do not consider it part of the official series, though at least one publisher, Pan Books, issued it as an official novel along with the rest of Fleming's series for its first paperback edition. Prior to writing this, Pearson had written an early biography of Ian Fleming, The Life of Ian Fleming
The Life of Ian Fleming
The Life of Ian fleming is a biography of Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond and author of the children’s book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The biography was written by John Pearson, Fleming’s assistant at the London Sunday Times, in 1966. Pearson later wrote the official, fictional-biography...
.
In 1977, the film The Spy Who Loved Me
The Spy Who Loved Me (film)
The Spy Who Loved Me is a spy film, the tenth film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional secret agent James Bond. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and the screenplay was written by Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum...
was released and, due to the radical differences between the film and the original novel of the same name, Glidrose authorised a novelization, James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me
James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me
James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me is the official novelisation of the EON film, The Spy Who Loved Me.-Background:When Ian Fleming sold the film rights to the James Bond novels to Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, he only gave permission for the title The Spy Who Loved Me to be used...
. The 1979 film Moonraker
Moonraker (film)
Moonraker is the eleventh spy film in the James Bond series, and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The third and final film in the series to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, it co-stars Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne Clery, and Richard Kiel...
was also novelised, as James Bond and Moonraker
James Bond and Moonraker
James Bond and Moonraker is a novelization by Christopher Wood of the James Bond movie Moonraker. Its name was changed to avoid confusion with Fleming's novel. It was released in 1979...
. Both books, the first Bond novelizations, were written by screenwriter Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood (writer)
Christopher Wood is an English screenwriter and novelist best known under the pseudonym 'Timothy Lea' for the Confessions series of novels and films. Under his own name, he adapted two James Bond novels for the screen: The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker .Wood has written many novels...
.
In the 1980s, the series was finally revived with new novels by John Gardner
John Gardner (thriller writer)
John Edmund Gardner was an English spy novelist, most notably for the James Bond series.-Early life:Gardner was born in Seaton Delaval, Northumberland. He graduated from St John's College, Cambridge and did postgraduate study at Oxford...
. Between 1981 and 1996, he wrote fourteen James Bond novels and two screenplay novelizations, surpassing Fleming's original output. The biggest change in Gardner's series was updating 007's world to the 1980s; however, it would keep the characters the same age as they were in Fleming's novels.
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Licence to Kill Licence to Kill, released in 1989, is the sixteenth entry in the Eon Productions James Bond series and the first one not to use the title of an Ian Fleming novel. It marks Timothy Dalton's second and final performance in his brief tenure in the lead role of James Bond... (novelization Novelization A novelization is a novel that is written based on some other media story form rather than as an original work.Novelizations of films usually add background material not found in the original work to flesh out the story, because novels are generally longer than screenplays... ) Brokenclaw Brokenclaw, first published in 1990, was the tenth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam... The Man from Barbarossa The Man from Barbarossa, first published in 1991, was the eleventh novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam.More so than... Death is Forever Death Is Forever, first published in 1992, was the twelfth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond... Never Send Flowers Never Send Flowers, first published in 1993, was the thirteenth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond... SeaFire SeaFire, first published in 1994, was the fourteenth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond... GoldenEye GoldenEye is the seventeenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was directed by Martin Campbell and is the first film in the series not to take story elements from the works of novelist Ian Fleming... (novelization) COLD (novel) COLD, first published in 1996, was the sixteenth and final novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond... |
In 1996, Gardner retired from writing James Bond books due to ill health and American Raymond Benson
Raymond Benson
Raymond Benson is an American author best known for being the official author of the adult James Bond novels from 1997 to 2003. Benson was born in Midland, Texas and graduated from Permian High School in Odessa in 1973...
quickly replaced him. As a James Bond novelist, Benson was initially controversial for being American, and for ignoring much of the continuity established by Gardner. Benson had previously written 1984's The James Bond Bedside Companion
The James Bond Bedside Companion
The James Bond Bedside Companion is a non-fiction book written by the official James Bond author, Raymond Benson, first published in 1984. It was later updated in 1988...
, a book dedicated to Ian Fleming, the official novels, and the films. Benson had also contributed to the creation of several modules in the popular James Bond 007 role-playing game
James Bond 007 (role-playing game)
James Bond 007: Role-Playing In Her Majesty's Secret Service was a spy fiction role-playing game, designed by Gerard Christopher Klug, and published by Victory Games , based on the James Bond books and films. The game, and many supplements, were published from 1983 until 1987, when the license lapsed...
in the 1980s and several Bond video games. Benson wrote six James Bond novels, three novelizations, and three short stories.
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The World Is Not Enough The World Is Not Enough is the nineteenth spy film in the James Bond film series, and the third to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was directed by Michael Apted, with the original story and screenplay written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Bruce Feirstein. It... (novelization) High Time to Kill High Time to Kill, published in 1999, is the fourth novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming’s secret agent, James Bond . This is the first James Bond novel copyrighted by Ian Fleming Publications... Doubleshot DoubleShot, first published in 2000, was the sixth novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond . Carrying the Ian Fleming Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam... Never Dream of Dying Never Dream of Dying, first published in 2001, was the seventh novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond... The Man with the Red Tattoo The Man with the Red Tattoo, first published in 2002, was the sixth and final original novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Ian Fleming Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United... Die Another Day Die Another Day is the 20th spy film in the James Bond series, and the fourth and last film to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond; it is also the last Bond film of the original timeline with the series being rebooted with Casino Royale... (novelization) |
Unlike Fleming's short stories, Benson's were not gathered together in any kind of collection. They eventually saw book publication as additional material in each of the two "Omnibus" editions of Benson's novels. Benson also wrote a fourth short story entitled "The Heart of Erzulie" that was rejected for publication.
Benson abruptly resigned as Bond novelist at the end of 2002 to write original, non-Bond works of his own. At the same time, Ian Fleming Publications planned to focus on reissuing Fleming's original novels for the 50th anniversary of the character and re-examine its publishing strategy. The year 2003 marked the first year since 1985 that a new James Bond novel had not been published.
Glidrose twice approached Lee Child
Lee Child
Jim Grant , better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer. His wife Jane is a New Yorker, and they currently live in New York state. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel....
, author of the Jack Reacher
Jack Reacher
Jack Reacher is a fictional character created by British author Jim Grant who writes under the pen name of Lee Child.-Biographical information:...
novels, about writing for Bond. Initially they wanted him to continue the ongoing series. They approached him again about writing the centenary novel.http://www.k1bond007.com/2007/06/06/not-child/
Young Bond
In April 2004, Ian Fleming Publications (Glidrose) announced a new series of James Bond books. Instead of continuing from where Raymond Benson ended in 2002, the new series featured James Bond as a thirteen-year-old boy attending Eton CollegeEton College
Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....
. Written by Charlie Higson
Charlie Higson
Charles Murray Higson , more commonly known as Charlie Higson - also Switch - is an English actor, comedian, author and former singer...
the series aligns faithfully with the adult Bond's back-story established by Fleming in Bond's obituary in You Only Live Twice. The first novel, SilverFin, was released to good reviews in 2005 and became an international bestseller. The second novel, Blood Fever, released in 2006, did even better, topping the children's best-selling list in the UK and holding the spot for eleven weeks. The following books, Double or Die, Hurricane Gold, and By Royal Command all proved to be bestsellers. While the series was planned as a five book set (ending with Bond's expulsion from Eton), Charlie Higson has stated that, because of the success of the series, he will most likely be writing more Young Bond novels in the future.
The first Young Bond novel, SilverFin, was released as a graphic novel on 2 October 2008. The book was written by Charlie Higson and illustrated by renowned comic book artist Kev Walker
Kev Walker
Kevin "Kev" Walker is a British comics artist and illustrator, based in Leeds, who worked mainly on 2000 AD and Warhammer comics and the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering...
. A Young Bond companion book, Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier
Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier
Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier is a non-fiction companion to the Young Bond series of novels written by Charlie Higson. The book contains in-depth character profiles to the cars, the weapons and the exotic locations, plus facts, statistics, photographs, maps, and illustrations by Kev Walker...
was released in October 2009. It included a new Young Bond short story, called "A Hard Man to Kill" by Charlie Higson.
In December 2010, all five Young Bond books were released as eBooks by Ian Fleming Publications.
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The Moneypenny Diaries
The Moneypenny Diaries is a trilogy of novels chronicling the life of Miss MoneypennyMiss Moneypenny
Jane Moneypenny, better known as Miss Moneypenny, is a fictional character in the James Bond novels and films. She is secretary to M, who is Bond's boss and head of the British Secret Service...
, M
M (James Bond)
M is a fictional character in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, as well as the films in the Bond franchise. The head of MI6 and Bond's superior, M has been portrayed by three actors in the official Bond film series: Bernard Lee, Robert Brown and since 1995 by Judi Dench. Background =Ian Fleming...
's personal secretary. The novels are penned by Samantha Weinberg
Samantha Weinberg
Samantha Fletcher is a British Green politician, and under her maiden name of Samantha Weinberg, a novelist, journalist and travel writer. Educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Trinity College, Cambridge, she is the author of books such as A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth and...
under the pseudonym
Pseudonym
A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
Kate Westbrook, who is depicted as the book's "editor". The first instalment of the trilogy, subtitled Guardian Angel
The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel
The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel is the first in a planned trilogy of novels chronicling the life of Miss Moneypenny, M's personal secretary in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. The diaries were authored by Samantha Weinberg under the pseudonym Kate Westbrook, who is depicted as the book's...
, was released on 10 October 2005 in the UK. A second volume, subtitled Secret Servant
Secret Servant: The Moneypenny Diaries
Secret Servant: The Moneypenny Diaries is the second in a trilogy of novels chronicling the life of Miss Moneypenny, M's personal secretary in Ian Fleming's James Bond series...
was released on 2 November 2006 in the UK http://web.mac.com/zencato/iWeb/Young_Bond/News/BB07046F-DA4F-4D05-ABAE-5BC64DF73221.html. A third volume, subtitled Final Fling
The Moneypenny Diaries: Final Fling
The Moneypenny Diaries: Final Fling is the third in a trilogy of novels chronicling the life of Miss Moneypenny, M's personal secretary in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. The diaries are penned by Samantha Weinberg under the pseudonym Kate Westbrook, who is depicted as the book's "editor"...
was released on 10 July 2008.
Weinberg is the first woman to write officially licensed Bond-related literature, although Johanna Harwood had previously co-written the screenplay for Dr. No and had adapted From Russia with Love for the screen.
The novels had originally been touted as the secret journal of a "real" Miss Moneypenny and that James Bond was a possible pseudonym for a genuine intelligence officer, an idea shared by John Pearson's earlier biography, James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007. The publisher, John Murray
John Murray (publisher)
John Murray is an English publisher, renowned for the authors it has published in its history, including Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, and Charles Darwin...
, admitted on 28 August 2005 that the books were a spoof after an investigation by The Sunday Times of London. Ian Fleming Publications, who had previously refused to comment as to whether the book was authorised, officially confirmed the book was and always had been a project by them on the day of the book's publication.
In addition to the novels, Weinberg also wrote two short stories that were published in 2006. The first, "For Your Eyes Only, James" describes a weekend Bond and Moneypenny spend in Royale-les-Eaux in 1956. The story appeared in the November 2006 issue of Tatler magazine http://web.mac.com/zencato/iWeb/Young_Bond/News/EDF4EDA6-F2B3-4A60-BC8F-E7A94EDB538E.html. The second "Moneypenny's First Date With Bond" tells the tale of Bond and Moneypenny's first meeting. The story appeared in the 11 November 2006 issue of The Spectator
The Spectator
The Spectator is a weekly British magazine first published on 6 July 1828. It is currently owned by David and Frederick Barclay, who also owns The Daily Telegraph. Its principal subject areas are politics and culture...
. These stories remain uncollected as of 2010.
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Devil May Care
Ian Fleming PublicationsIan Fleming Publications
Ian Fleming Publications is the production company formerly known as both Glidrose Productions Limited and Glidrose Publications Limited, named after its founders John Gliddon and Norman Rose...
announced that a new James Bond novel would be published in May 2008 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Ian Fleming's birth. Initially, IFP kept the identity of the author secret, but in July 2007 it was announced that the centenary novel would be Devil May Care
Devil May Care (novel)
Devil May Care is the thirty-sixth original James Bond novel. Written by Sebastian Faulks , it was published on 28 May 2008, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ian Fleming, creator of Bond.-Background:...
by Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks
-Early life:Faulks was born on 20 April 1953 in Donnington, Berkshire to Peter Faulks and Pamela . Edward Faulks, Baron Faulks, is his older brother. He was educated at Elstree School, Reading and went on to Wellington College, Berkshire...
. It was published on 28 May 2008, on what would have been Ian Fleming's 100th birthday.
The existence of the continuation novels published between 1968 and 2002 (not counting the related Young Bond and Moneypenny Diaries series) was underplayed in the announcement of Faulks' book, which was promoted as a direct continuation of Fleming's canon. As such, many media reports (such as, for example, the one posted by AOL Entertainment ) made no reference to the work of Amis through Benson, stating outright that Devil May Care is the first new Bond novel since the 1960s. A similar error occurred in an Associated Press
Associated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
report on 8 January 2008 that stated only 13 post-Fleming novels had been published prior to Devil May Care.
Devil May Care is the first release of a new imprint
Imprint
In the publishing industry, an imprint can mean several different things:* As a piece of bibliographic information about a book, it refers to the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication as given at the foot or on the verso of its title page.* It can mean a trade name...
of Penguin Books
Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...
called Penguin 007, which will also reprint the original Fleming novels.
Carte Blanche
A new James Bond book commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications Ltd. and written by best-selling thriller writer Jeffery DeaverJeffery Deaver
Jeffery Deaver is an American mystery/crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a successful career as a best-selling...
was published on May 26, 2011 in the UK by Hodder and Stoughton and on June 14, 2011 in the U.S. by Simon & Schuster. The book is called Carte Blanche
Carte Blanche (novel)
Carte Blanche is a James Bond novel written by Jeffery Deaver. Commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications, it was published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton on 26 May 2011 and was released in the United States by Simon & Schuster on 14 June 2011...
and its title and cover artwork were unveiled on January 17, 2011, at a special launch event at the InterContinental Hotel in Dubai. Unlike Devil May Care, it is set in contemporary times and will feature a younger James Bond. Other locations include South Africa, Serbia and the UK. The book was officially launched on 25 May 2011 (one day before public sale in the UK and Commonwealth
Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-four independent member states...
) at St Pancras Station in Central London. Here, Deaver arrived in a branded Carte Blanche Bentley
Bentley Continental GT
-Flying Spur:The four door Continental Flying Spur saloon was first displayed at the 2005 Geneva Motor Show. The Flying Spur utilizes most of the technical underpinnings of the Bentley Continental GT, and was introduced to European and North American markets in the summer of 2005...
and was accompanied by model, actress and stunt driver Chesca Miles. Of the novel, Deaver remarked: "In reading Carte Blanche fans will be treated to a typical, relentless, fast paced, rollercoaster of a Jeffery Deaver novel centred around everyone’s favourite spy, James Bond 007, who, the poor fellow, never gets a moment’s rest throughout the entire book."
See also and External links
- James Bond Wiki
- MI6 One of the largest unofficial James Bond websites online, including a large fan fiction library.
- Penguin007.com Official website for Devil May Care and the 2008 Centenary events.
- The Young Bond Dossier Website for the Young Bond series.
- Ian Fleming's James Bond Official website of the book by John Griswold.
- Ian Fleming bibliography of first editions.
- Ian Fleming Centre Official website of Ian Fleming Publications Limited.
- The Book Bond Website devoted exclusively to the literary James Bond.