Next Bond novel to be Cold War classic
James Bond is going back to his favourite decade: The fictional MI6 secret agent will next year have a “classic” adventure set in the late 1960s, at the height of the Cold War. The British bestselling writer William Boyd has been chosen to write the next 007 novel.
Next year is a significant year for Bond as it marks 60 years since the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale , was published in 1953.
The novel, which is yet to be titled, will mark a return to “classic Bond” and will be published in the UK and Commonwealth in autumn next year. “The only thing I’m prepared to say at this stage about the novel that I will write is that it will be set in 1969,” Boyd said in a statement.
Super spy James Bond was created by Ian Fleming on a February morning in 1952 in his novel Casino Royale. The Fleming estate has now commissioned 60- year- old Boyd, who was born in Accra, Ghana, and studied in Jesus College at the Oxford University.
American thriller writer Jeffery Deaver wrote the previous Bond adventure called, Carte Blanche, in 2011 and British novelist Sebastian Faulks guided Agent 007 through the murky world of espionage in, Devil May Care, which was published in 2008, to mark the birth centenary of Ian Fleming.
Fleming wrote 14 James Bond books and other authors of official James Bond novels include Kingsley Amis, John Gardner and Raymond Benson.