James Bond is back, in a book. The fictional MI6 secret agent will soon enjoy a new adventure as American bestselling thriller writer Jeffery Deaver has been chosen to write a 007 novel.
Super spy James Bond was created by Ian Fleming on a February morning in 1952 in his novel Casino Royale. The Fleming estate has commissioned 60-year-old Deaver to write a Bond novel, which is provisionally titled Project X and will be published on May 28, 2011.
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.
“I can’t describe the thrill I felt when first approached by Ian Fleming’s estate to ask if I’d be interested in writing the next book in the James Bond series. I began reading them when I was about nine or ten, ignorant of the Cold War politics they explored but enthralled by their sense of adventure and derring-do. I continued to read and reread them, which was fortunate because as a teen and adult I found, of course, nuances, that were invisible to a child,” Deaver, Chicago-born author of bestselling thrillers like The Bone Collector and Garden of Beasts. He has written 26 novels and sold more than 20 million books worldwide.