Boyd even gave Bond’s creator Ian Fleming a role in Any Human Heart, where Fleming recruits Logan Mountstuart into the Naval Intelligence Division in World War II. He and his fellow schoolboys used to read aloud to each other from With Russia With Love after lights out.

But despite the carnival atmosphere around me, I was gripped by the story, turning the pages, transported back to 1969, and already half in love with Boyd’s Bond.īoyd, too, has always been a little in love with Bond and grew up with the novels long before the films existed, he told us. Boyd was still doing interviews with different broadcasters, and every so often his voice caught my attention and caused me to look quickly up from the novel. I read the first chapter of William Boyd’s take on Bond in the Grill at The Dorchester immediately after the press conference for Solo (Jonathan Cape). He smokes his first cigarette of the day while waiting for his breakfast to arrive. He flirts with a woman in the lift and then orders four eggs, scrambled, and half a dozen rashers of unsmoked back bacon, well done, on the side.

He pushes his bad dream to one side, washes away the memories of Normandy in 1944 under the shower, and heads down to breakfast. Read more Even if Bond succeeds in exacting his revenge, a man with two faces will come to stalk his every waking moment.It's 1969 and James Bond wakes up in The Dorchester in London. Bond’s renegade action leads him to Washington, D.C., where he discovers a web of intrigue and witnesses fresh horrors. Aided by a beautiful accomplice and hindered by the local militia, he undergoes a scarring experience which compels him to ignore M’s orders in pursuit of his own brand of justice. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. *The Sunday Times Bestseller* It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. Bond's renegade action leads him to Washington, D C, where he discovers a web of intrigue and witnesses fresh horrors. It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. Description for Solo: A James Bond Novel Paperback.

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