Exclusive Excerpt From New James Bond Novel

Vanity Fair:

To honor Ian Fleming's centenary, one of Britain's top novelists has accepted espionage fiction's ultimate challenge: reviving James Bond. In an exclusive excerpt from Devil May Care, Agent 007 takes on perhaps his most dangerous opponent yet, pharmaceutical tycoon Dr. Julius Gorner. As Bond and Gorner hit the tennis court, the distractingly leggy Scarlett Papava referees.

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At one minute to nine, a white Sunbeam Alpine drew up with a squeak alongside him. The hood was down, and in the driving seat, in dark glasses and a distractingly short red linen dress, was Scarlett Papava.

"Hop in, James. You can push the seat back if you like."

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Comments

[Wilburrr]

Ahhhhhhgh.... it was a real James Bond novel, the steering wheel of that Austin Martin (a Sunbeam???) would be on the right. If it was a real James Bond movie, it would star Sean Connery.

[unitron]

"by Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming"?!?

"Writing as" is when you make up a pen name, like the guy who wrote the "Quiller" novels used the name Adam Hall (which, to my thinking, wasn't nearly as cool a name as Elleston Trevor, but, I digress), and on later editions of the paperback version it says in small print "Elleston Trevor writing as" and "Adam Hall" in larger letters. As far as I know there was no real person named Adam Hall who very successfully wrote books about a fictious character known as Quiller, only to die and then have Elleston Trevor come along and continue the series under the same author name. It was a "nom de plume" right from the start.

Since the death of the real Ian Fleming other writers have written authorized "Bond" books, but they've never pretended to BE Fleming.

(As far as I can tell they've never been a match for Fleming at writing "Bond" books either, in spite of their success with their own characters in other of their books)