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Exclusive Satisfaction Rating: 70% Based on 79 reviews.
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Search eBay for this item. Release Date: May 28, 2008
Publication Date: May 28, 2008
Author: Sebastian Faulks
Package Dimensions (in inches): 1.2 x 9.3 x 6.4
Package Weight: 1.15 pounds
Audio Tracks/Subtitles: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
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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
Publisher: Doubleday
Studio: Doubleday
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Editorial/Description:Product Description: 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. Amazon.com 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.
Customer Reviews:
A Cold War Bond
(2 of 2 Found this Helpful)
November 28, 2008
How do you revise a series like James Bond? You bring him back to his roots. Like placing your novel in the late 1960's and getting Bond back to being BOND. If you truly tried the political correct James Bond. It would sound like the John Gardner or Raymond Benson series of the 1990 and 2000's. It some ways, it is a tribute to Flemming on his 100th birtday and in other ways, it is a retread of classic BOND.
Now to the audio presentation, it is hit or miss! The narrator Triston Layton is good, however the abridged text bogged down this novel with sub plots that are never resolved. Not good form. Layton seems to confuse his verbal characters every once and awhile. Confusing yes, but hold on, you can make your way through this and enjoy the audio
If you can pass muster with this abridged text, you can enjoy this!
Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD
Back to the Future Maybe?
November 20, 2008
I admit, (although I am not proud of it), that I have not read any of the original Ian Fleming Bond books. Ya, I've seen all the movies from Connery to Craig, and every one in between. My sense is that Faulks' 007 is probably a lot closer to the original Fleming than say, Moonraker-the- movie. While this was not the most exciting spy thriller I've ever read, I did try to take in time and place, and put it in the context of the originals, which Faulks did thankfully read and study. It's a good book; but if like me, you bring a lot of Bond (movie) baggage, be prepared to work through your issues. It's hard to duplicate all those cinamatic chase scenes in a book, and this 007 dosen't always get (or want) the girl. Go figure.
Predicatble
November 13, 2008
Still worthy of a read but nowhere near as good as the original master 'Fleming'. The plot still draws you in but the outcome is predicatable! When I bought this I purchased 'De Marco Empire' from a new author 'J Lou McCartney'and i found this to be much more exciting - on the edge of the seat stuff and definitely NOT predictable ... check it out!
Yes, it's not perfect - but it's a pretty good Bond pastiche!
November 11, 2008
To celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth, the Fleming estate c ommissioned a new James Bond novel, tapping noted British historical fiction author Sebastian Faulks to wield the pen. Fleming's literary legacy, secret agent 007, is recognized all over the world through books, movies and tie-ins, and Faulks joins a select group of authors who have added new chapters to that legacy: Kingsley Amis (as Robert Markham), John Gardner, Raymond Benson, and most recently Charlie Higson (writing about the Young Bond). In what seems to be a stroke-of-genius choice, Devil May Care picks up immediately after the original Fleming sequence and drops a slightly mind-damaged Bond into the heat of the Cold War, sending him to Iran to match wits with another megalomaniacal villain, Dr. Julius Gorner, a pharmaceuticals magnate with shady ties to both sides of World War II. Aided by the lovely and colorfully "liberated" Scarlett Papava, who has her own motives, and a bevy of Fleming-esque secondary characters, Bond begins his campaign with a tennis battle reminiscent of the golf game against Goldfinger. In fact, the whole caper reads a bit like a pastiche of the classic Goldfinger, but not to its detriment. True Bond and Fleming aficionados will argue forever whether this new Bond stands up to the original, but it's undeniable that Faulks presents a less super-human secret agent, and takes the opportunity to make some sly observations about the present-day situation in this volatile region. Ultimately, time and distance will determine whether Faulks succeeds in his attempt to rein in the movie Bond, but Devil May Care seems to hit all the right notes, even if some echo Fleming's own works. Anyone who has followed Bond's adventures will want to judge first-hand whether the Faulks version of the immortal secret agent does indeed pay tribute to Fleming, Ian Fleming. In my mind, it's a resounding yes, even if the new authorial byline is oddly tagged with the curious phrase: "Writing as Ian Fleming."
Bring on the Bond...
October 29, 2008
Having been a long-time James Bond fan, and one that continues to see the new movies as they're released, I wanted to give the new book from Sebastian Faulks a try. I expected it to be similar to the resurrected Bourne series by Eric Van Lustbader.
While, in my opinion, taking up a series, like Bond, and trying to rekindle it is a difficult thing. While Sebastian Faulks isn't Ian Fleming, he does a decent job or portraying the Bond character. Sebastian Faulks, I think, does a decent job of retaining the overall "Bond" feeling throughout the book, but doesn't quite do it with the nitty gritty details--primarily those that only Ian Fleming could accomplish.
Still, all that being said, I enjoyed the book. It was a quick read, and definitely a page turner. I throughly enjoyed it, and would easily consider reading another of Sebastian Faulks' Bond books. With Daniel Craig resurrecting the Bond movie series, Mr Faulks may have jumped into the game at just the right time.
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