And, of course, his love of attractive women. Han Solo in Star Wars I just didn’t want to play that kind of role at the time, he told Business Insider in 2016 of the role that eventually went to Harrison Ford. He’s written a good, modern political thriller.”įans of Fleming’s books will recognize Bond’s meticulous approach to clothes - in Africa he dons “a cotton khaki-drill suit, a white short-sleeved Aertex shirt and a navy blue knitted tie” - and his fondness for whisky and fine food (Boyd’s Bond mixes a mean vinaigrette). “He’s written more than just a James Bond novel. “It’s exciting, it’s entertaining, it’s fun, it’s sexy, it’s spectacular,” said Ajay Chowdhury of the James Bond International Fan Club. One Bond uber-fan proclaimed himself happy with Boyd’s work. Many of Fleming’s familiar characters put in appearances, from spymaster M and his secretary Miss Moneypenny to Bond’s CIA friend Felix Leiter. Boyd, who was born in Ghana and spent much of his youth in West Africa, plunges the spy into Zanzarim, a fictional country with similarities to Nigeria during its 1960s civil war. “Solo” takes Bond to Africa, a continent he visited just once in Fleming’s works. The Times has published a feature article about the author along with the first extract from the book. He made Ian Fleming a character in his 2002 novel “Any Human Heart.” James Bond drives a Jensen in SOLO The promotional machinery in the UK has begun to churn for the release next Thursday of Solo, the new James Bond novel by William Boyd. He has been a Bond fan since he read “From Russia With Love” in the 1960s as “an illicit thrill” after lights-out at his boarding school.
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