"It seems to me he wants a relationship - it's not just casual sex." "Bond has relationships with women," he said. Bond is a sensualist," Boyd said Wednesday.Īlthough the novel includes two enigmatic female foils for 007, Boyd is not keen on the expression "Bond girl." His novel stays faithful to Fleming's character, from his meticulous approach to clothes to his fondness for cigarettes and whisky to his love for attractive women. 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. LONDON - Bond is back, much as we remember him but also subtly different.
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