Well a new Bond book is about to hit the stores. The author is a British man who goes by the name Sebastian Faulks. The book was authorized by the estate of Ian Fleming and it going to most likely hit the stores in 2008, which does mark 100 years since the birth of Fleming.
The novel which goes by the name Devil May Care. It is set during the Cold War and Faulks tries his hardest to mesh a lot of his writing with the style of Fleming. The book spans 2 continents and is going to be published by Penguin UK. Faulks had this to say about the book
I tried to isolate the essential and the most enjoyable aspects of the books. Then I took that pattern and added characters and a story of my own with as much speed and as many twists as I thought the reader could bear. I developed a prose that is about 80 per cent Fleming. I didn’t go the final distance for fear of straying into pastiche, but I strictly observed his rules of chapter and sentence construction. My novel is meant to stand in the line of Fleming’s own books, where the story is everything.
At the present moment in time the film rights have not been sold, but EON is most likely to pick up the rights as they made a name for themselves in producing and getting the Bond films out there. I did enjoy Casino Royale so hopefully this one is good as well
