Author: Sebastian Faulks
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 294
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9780718154189
Description
‘There’s something I need your help with. The details are a little hazy at the moment, but I sense that it’s going to be something big. Very big indeed. Have you heard of Dr Julius Gorner?’
It’s a name that will become seared into James Bond’s consciousness. The name of a man who knows no master but his own power-crazed ego, whose wealth is exceeded only by his greed and who will stop at nothing until he has destroyed the very heart of Great Britain.
A savage execution in the desolate outskirts of Paris sets in motion a chain of events designed to lead only to global catastrophe, as a tide of lethal narcotics threatens to engulf Sixties Britain, a British airliner goes missing over round the Middle East…
Bond finds a willing accomplice in the shape of a glamorous Parisian called Scarlett Papava. He will need all her help in a life-and-death struggle with his most dangerous adversary yet-a man who would dance with the Devil himself.
Bond is back. With a vengeance.
‘That a literary novelist of Faulks’s caliber should take on Fleming’s mantle is a fitting tribute to one of Britain’s greatest thriller writers.’
- Ben Macintyre, The Times
Written to celebrate the centenary of lan Fleming’s birth on 28 May 1908, Devil May Care is a masterful continuation of the James Bond legacy-an electrifying new chapter in the life of the most iconic spy of literature and film.
Picking up where Fleming left off, Sebastian Faulks takes Bond back to the height of the Cold War in a story of almost unbearable pace and tension. Devil May Care not only captures the very essence of Fleming’s original novels but also shows Bond facing dangers with a powerful relevance to our own times.
REVIEW:
Set during the Cold War, this novel features all the glamour, thrills and excitement that one would expect from any adventure involving Bond ...James Bond.
"Devil May Care" will be published in May 2008 to celebrate the Centenary of Ian Fleming's birth. This new installment in the adventures of the world's most iconic spy has been written by one of Britain's most admired novelists, Sebastian Faulks. 'My novel is meant to stand in the line of Fleming's own books, where the story is everything', said Faulks. 'In his house in Jamaica, Ian Fleming used to write a thousand words in the morning, then go snorkelling, have a cocktail, lunch on the terrace, more diving, another thousand words in late afternoon, then more Martinis and glamorous women. In my house in London, I followed this routine exactly, apart from the cocktails, the lunch and the snorkelling'. Picking up from where Fleming left off in 1966 with "The Living Daylights"/"Octopussy", Faulks has written the perfect continuation of the James Bond legacy. "Devil May Care" is set during the Cold War and features all the glamour, thrills and excitement that one would expect from any adventure involving Bond ...James Bond.