5/24/2023 0 Comments William boyd bond novel![]() Now, though, courtesy of debonair literary novelist William Boyd-the writer Ian Fleming Publications most recently chosen to carry the Bond flag-we have Solo (Harper), an exhilarating tightrope of a tale that's also just retro enough to conjure the original books. Since Fleming’s death nearly 50 years ago, we’ve had the pleasure of Sean Connery’s Bond, Pierce Brosnan’s Bond and Daniel Craig’s Bond. But what we haven't been treated to in a while is a big, old-fashioned, rollicking new Bond novel to escape into. ![]() While actual intelligence operations are usually carried out by sensibly clad teams of professionals painstakingly pursuing multiple leads, most of which fizzle out, 007's universe is an aspirational one: An average evening for Bond involves donning a white dinner jacket, jumping into a tricked-out Aston Martin, and dropping a few thousand at a roulette wheel in Monte Carlo. ![]() But Bond, as author Ian Fleming created him, is more fantasy than reality. There are fleeting moments in the world of James Bond that would resonate with any real espionage type-the twists involved in devising a cover story the loneliness of a life spent misleading all the people who can't know what line of work you're really in. ![]()
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