![]() ![]() The novel, set in 1969, takes the suave British spy 45 years old and feeling his age from London’s plush Dorchester Hotel to a war-ravaged West African country and onto Washington on a perilous lone mission.īoyd, 61, who has won the Whitbread and Costa book prizes, follows writers including Kingsley Amis and Sebastian Faulks as a successor to Fleming, who died in 1964.Įspionage is familiar ground for the author, whose books include the spy thrillers “Restless” and “Waiting for Sunrise.”īoyd has been a Bond fan since he read “From Russia With Love” as “an illicit thrill” after lights-out at his 1960s boarding school. So readers are advised to banish images of Sean Connery or Daniel Craig when they read “Solo.” Daniel Day-Lewis looks like Hoagy Carmichael.” To the latest Bond author, the dashing secret agent looks a bit like Daniel Day-Lewis.īritish writer William Boyd, who has written a new official James Bond novel authorized by creator Ian Fleming’s family, says Day-Lewis would be perfect to play the 007 he has created in “Solo.”īoyd says Fleming once described Bond as “looking like the American singer-songwriter Hoagy Carmichael. (AP) Bond is back, much as we remember him but also subtly different. ![]() Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. ![]()
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