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Devil May Care
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780385524285
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0385524285
Label: Doubleday
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 278
Publication Date: May 28, 2008
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date: May 28, 2008
Studio: Doubleday
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Editorial Review:
10 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT JAMES BOND & IAN FLEMING
A Quiz Q: Although James Bond is regarded by many as the quintessential English hero, he is actually not English. What is his nationality in the books?
A: He is half Scottish and half Swiss. He also hates that most English of drinks, tea--and describes it as 'mud'! Q: Bond has had many famous incarnations on the big screen but, prior to these, he was first played on the radio by which British actor and game show host?
A: Bob Holness of Blockbusters fame Q: Which Bond villain shares a birthday with his creator?
A: Ernst Stavro Blofeld. On Her Majesty's Secret Service reveals that Blofeld was born on 28 May 1908. Ian Lancaster Fleming entered the world on the same day at 7 Green Street in London. Q: Which American President was a big fan of the Fleming novels?
A: President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy was known to be a big fan of Fleming and listed From Russia With Love as one of his top 10 favourite books. Bizarrely, both Kennedy and his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald are believed to have been reading Bond novels the night before Kennedy was killed. Q: Which famed children's author helped Ian Fleming adapt his children's adventure story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for the big screen?
A: Roald Dahl Q: Where did Fleming write all his Bond books?
A: At Goldeneye, his Jamaican home. Although now part of a luxurious holiday resort, the house was very basic in Fleming's time--so much so that his friend and neighbour Noel Coward referred to it as Goldeneye, Nose and Throat! Q: Although Ursula Andress wears the most famous bikini in cinema history in her iconic performance in Doctor No, in Fleming's novel of the same name the character Honeychile Rider wears even less. What does she wear?
A: She is naked save for a knife-belt. Q: The first Bond novel, Casino Royale, originally had a different title when it was published in the US. Under what title was it initially published here?
A: The initial title here was Too Hot To Handle. Q: What is James Bond's favorite meal?
A: Breakfast. He has a particular penchant for scrambled eggs, and the short story 007 in New York even includes his own recipe for them. Q: Who is Miss Moneypenny named for?
A: Miss Moneypenny was named after a character in an unpublished novel written by Ian Fleming's brother, the travel writer Peter Fleming.
Bond is back. With a vengeance. Devil May Care is a masterful continuation of the James Bond legacy–an electrifying new chapter in the life of the most iconic spy of literature and film, written to celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth on May 28, 1908.An Algerian drug runner is savagely executed in the desolate outskirts of Paris. This seemingly isolated event leads to the recall of Agent 007 from his sabbatical in Rome and his return to the world of intrigue and danger where he is most at home. The head of MI6, M, assigns him to shadow the mysterious Dr. Julius Gorner, a power-crazed pharmaceutical magnate, whose wealth is exceeded only by his greed. Gorner has lately taken a disquieting interest in opiate derivatives, both legal and illegal, and this urgently bears looking into. Bond finds a willing accomplice in the shape of a glamorous Parisian named Scarlett Papava. He will need her help in a life-and-death struggle with his most dangerous adversary yet, as a chain of events threaten to lead to global catastrophe. A British airliner goes missing over Iraq. The thunder of a coming war echoes in the Middle East. And a tide of lethal narcotics threatens to engulf a Great Britain in the throes of the social upheavals of the late sixties. Picking up where Fleming left off, Sebastian Faulks takes Bond back to the height of the Cold War in a story of almost unbearable pace and tension. Devil May Care not only captures the very essence of Fleming’s original novels but also shows Bond facing dangers with a powerful relevance to our own times.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - So far so good
I am three quarters into the book and so far it is engaging enough to keep me interested. I cannot say that it is as if Fleming is writing, but it is good enough for me to want more. I look forward to more books in the future.
Rating: - trying to out fleming fleming
faulkes portrayal was creditable but lacked the energy and detail of fleming. Fleming's escapes for Bond were ingenious and well thought out; perhaps scripted over and over al la Hemingway. Faulkes did just enough to sell but not to impress. It was a nostalgic read but almost tiresome.
LMcL
Rating:  - Moderately good Bond
I've been reading Bond since the 60's. This is among the best of the books written after Fleming's death. Its strongest feature is that the character of Bond comes across as real, very much in the flavor of Fleming's Bond -- unlike the novels of Benson, whose Bond was cardboard, or the novels of Gardner, whose Bond was cartoonish. (I stopped reading Gardner when Bond made love to a one-breasted Amazon who turned out to be Blofeld with a sex change!) The storyline is also good, set in the cold ... Read More
Rating: - For Non-Purists Eyes Only
This is a fun Bond pastiche that moves at an agreeably fast clip. There are a few good action scenes and the tennis match is silly but fun. You'll never forget that it's not from the original canon, partly because Faulks never gets the Bond character quite right. And for all the hype about his "literary" reputation, I never felt the writing was terribly fine. Indeed, it never really rises to the level of an admirably dedicated second-stringer like Daniel Silva. And what's with the lame title? ... Read More
Rating:  - I Don't
It took me over half of the book to get into the tense, compact, edge-of-my seat writing I expected from a James Bond story. In fact, The Devil May Care reads like a short story or novella padded into a novel.
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