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IAN FLEMING ESTATE
COMMISSIONS BESTSELLING BRITISH AUTHOR SEBASTIAN FAULKS TO WRITE
NEW BOND NOVEL FOR CENTENARY
DOUBLEDAY TO PUBLISH DEVIL MAY CARE IN MAY 2008
New York, NY --
Doubleday will publish a new James
Bond novel commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications Ltd and
written by Sebastian Faulks, it was announced today by Stephen
Rubin, President & Publisher, Doubleday Broadway Publishing
Group. Rubin bought U.S. rights from Gillon Aitken, Aitken
Alexander Associates, with Deb Futter, Vice President, Deputy
Editorial Director, Doubleday, to edit. DEVIL MAY CARE will be
released simultaneously in the US and UK (Penguin) to mark what
would have been Fleming’s 100th birthday—May 28, 2008.
“Three pages into DEVIL MAY CARE and you are immediately thrown
back into the world of James Bond and all those wonderful
characters we have come to love,” says Rubin. “DEVIL MAY CARE is
pure Fleming channeled by Faulks—a madcap adventure, a romantic
romp and a book you can devour in one sitting. It all starts in
Paris, and no one alive writes better about Paris than Sebastian
Faulks.”
Fleming’s last Bond book, Octopussy and the Living Daylights,
was published in 1966. Forty-two years later and in keeping with
the tradition, DEVIL MAY CARE is set in the Cold War and the
action is played out across two continents, exotic locations and
several of the world’s most glamorous cities.
“My novel is meant to stand in the line of Fleming’s own books,
where the story is everything,” said Faulks, author of Birdsong,
Charlotte Gray and Engleby. “In his house in Jamaica, Ian Fleming used to write a
thousand words in the morning, then go snorkeling, have a
cocktail, lunch on the terrace, more diving, another thousand
words in the late afternoon, then more Martinis and glamorous
women. In my house in London, I followed this routine exactly,
apart from the cocktails, the lunch and the snorkeling.”
Corinne Turner, Managing Director, Ian Fleming Publications Ltd
said of Faulks: “We had him in mind for our Centenary novel for
quite some time. He has an ability to write convincingly in
whichever period or genre he chooses, and his novel On Green
Dolphin Street in particular made me think he might enjoy
exploring the world of Ian Fleming and James Bond. When his
agent, quite independently, suggested Sebastian, it was just
meant to be. We gave a sneak preview of the manuscript to
Barbara Broccoli [producer of the Bond films] who said if I had
told her the family had found an old manuscript of Ian’s in the
basement she would have believed me. Sebastian couldn’t have
written a better book to celebrate Ian’s 100th birthday.”
The publication of DEVIL MAY CARE is at the center of a larger
program of celebratory events that will run in the UK and US
throughout 2008 to mark the occasion of the Centenary.
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