![]() ![]() And, of course, his love of attractive women. He’s written a good, modern political thriller.”įans of Fleming’s books will recognize Bond’s meticulous approach to clothes - in Africa he dons “a cotton khaki-drill suit, a white short-sleeved Aertex shirt and a navy blue knitted tie” - and his fondness for whisky and fine food (Boyd’s Bond mixes a mean vinaigrette). ![]() “He’s written more than just a James Bond novel. “It’s exciting, it’s entertaining, it’s fun, it’s sexy, it’s spectacular,” said Ajay Chowdhury of the James Bond International Fan Club. Han Solo in Star Wars I just didn’t want to play that kind of role at the time, he told Business Insider in 2016 of the role that eventually went to Harrison Ford. James Bond is assigned to find a missing British vessel, equipped with a weapons encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands. One Bond uber-fan proclaimed himself happy with Boyd’s work. ![]() Many of Fleming’s familiar characters put in appearances, from spymaster M and his secretary Miss Moneypenny to Bond’s CIA friend Felix Leiter. Boyd, who was born in Ghana and spent much of his youth in West Africa, plunges the spy into Zanzarim, a fictional country with similarities to Nigeria during its 1960s civil war. “Solo” takes Bond to Africa, a continent he visited just once in Fleming’s works. He made Ian Fleming a character in his 2002 novel “Any Human Heart.” He has been a Bond fan since he read “From Russia With Love” in the 1960s as “an illicit thrill” after lights-out at his boarding school. ![]()
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