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James Bond returns
The new successor to Yana Fleming was Sebastian Folks family company Ian Fleming Publications Ltd, which owns the rights to the works of Jan Fleming, last summer announced that the writer’s 100th anniversary, which will be celebrated on May 28, 2008, will be released a new book about James Bond. However, until today the author’s name and the name of the book have been kept secret. And then the secret was revealed.Another novel about James Bond was created by the British writer Sebastian Folks. The book, entitled “Devil May Care” (“and the devil is not anyway”) describes the adventures of agent 007 during the Cold War. Spy passions are played out on two continents, in the most picturesque places of the planet - in any case, the publishers say. In Britain, the book will be published by Penguin, and in the USA - Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group.
When last year the Fleming family announced that the right to create a new novel about Supershpion was granted to the “well -known and deeply respected” writer, Bond fans have long crossed the popular authors of thrillers who could write such a continuation. Among them, the names of both John a medicine and Frederick Forsit were mentioned. 54-year-old Folks, known mainly by his books “Bird Song” and “Charlotte Gray”, which takes place during the Second World War, did not fit into this list.
Folks admits that he himself was surprised to learn that the choice fell on him. However, he was not even less flattered. According to him, re -reading Fleming's novels, he was amazed at how reliable these books seem. “I attribute this to three things: the atmosphere of uncertainty and risk that Fleming creates around its lonely hero, some playfulness in the presentation of details, and a clear, journalistic style that never goes out of fashion,” he says.
Does Folks's book look like Fleming's books? According to the writer's own assessment, “Fleming is 80 percent ...” “I did not seek to complete imitation,” Folks assures. “But I firmly followed his rules of narration and the style of the preparation of sentences.”
During work, Folks slightly borrowed even Fleming's lifestyle. “Fleming on Jamaica adhered to such a routine: he wrote a thousand words in the morning, then went to swim, drank a cocktail, had breakfast on the terrace, swam, then wrote a thousand words, and completed the day in the company of Martini and brilliant women. I, even if I live in London, tried to adhere to the same routine routine. Apart from, however, cocktails, breakfasts on the terrace and swimming. ”
If we say seriously, the writer really hopes that his book “will appeal to readers, and that Jan Fleming himself would have considered that my novel has retained the noble spirit that is saturated with his own books, so that he can be considered an acceptable continuation.” “The purpose of my novel is to continue the series of books of Fleming, in which the plot is all,” Folks said.
So or not, but at least the Fleming family was satisfied. Corinny Tourner, managing director of Ian Fleming Publications Ltd., believes that Folks perfectly coped with his work. “Finding the author for the anniversary book, we looked at him for some time. Folks has the ability to write convincingly, no matter what genre and the time of action he chooses. And after reading his novel “On the Street of the Green Dolphin”, I thought that the opportunity to plunge into the world of Jan Fleming and James Bond would enjoy him, ”Türner said.
According to her, the manuscript also liked Broaccoli, the producer of Bondiana and the daughter of the producer of the first films about James Bond Albert Broacoli. “When we showed Roman Barbara, she said that if I told her that Fleming’s nieces were accidentally found in the basement of his old manuscript, she would believe me. Yana Sebastian could not write the best book for the anniversary. ”
However, it is difficult to judge whether the new novel will ever be filmed-to date, according to DoubleDay, the rights to film adaptation has not yet been sold in the Associated Press . Meanwhile, according to all the novels about the bond that came out of the pen of Fleming himself, films were made-the premiere of the last of them, “Casino Royal”, took place in November last year.
Casino Royal was the first novel by Bondiana, which Fleming, a journalist who served in marine intelligence during the war, published it in 1953. The last book from this series - and there were 14 of them (12 novels and two collections of stories) - was published in 1966, two years after the death of Fleming.
And two years later, the first successor of Bondiana appeared: in 1968, Kingsley emis published under the pseudonym Robert Markham Roman Colonel Song. In 1973, John Parson decided to release the "authorized biography of agent 007." Then, in 1977-1979, Christopher Wood wrote two cinemas about Bond. In 1981, agent 007 became the hero of John Gardner’s novels, who at first enjoyed great success - perhaps that is why Gardner, having written the “license”, could not stop at all, and was equal to the fertility of Flemin himself, releasing 14 novels and 2 cinemas -in -film by 1995. The last in the list of successors of the "adult" books about Bond was Raymond Benson, with 6 novels and 3 moviens, which were published in 1997 - 2002. In addition, since 2004, four children's stories about young Bond have been published - the British writer Charlie Higson became their author.
Now this list of successors is closed by Folks.