![]() He counts among his friends three actors who have played Bond and have also acted in films that he has written - Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig. William Boyd has been described as an Ian Fleming geek, and included him in his novel Any Human Heart. He wrote another thirteen Bond books, and twice as many more have been produced by other authors, including Kingsley Amis and Sebastian Faulks. Like the BJGP, the Bond novels are 60 this year: Ian Fleming published Casino Royale in 1953. Where is the super-villain, bent on world domination? What happened to the beautiful Blessing? And how on earth, in the middle of a war-torn African republic, did Bond flag down a taxi on page 163? Clearly, I am not going to answer these questions, but I’m able to give you one or two facts which should not diminish your pleasure in reading this well-written and enjoyable story, in which Bond comes across as more literary and reflective than we might have expected. Halfway through William Boyd’s re-creation of James Bond, set in Africa in 1969, with Bond aged 45, I had a number of questions. ![]()
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