007 Book: Solo (2013)

Bond book: Solo

Author: Wililam Boyd

Publication date: 26 September 2013

 

Solo is a James Bond continuation novel written by William Boyd. It was published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 26 September 2013 in hardback, e-book and audio editions, and in the US by HarperCollins on 8 October 2013.

The plot centres on Bond's mission to the civil war in the fictional country of Zanzarim—a thinly veiled version of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War—where he meets the local MI6 contact, Efua Blessing Ogilvy-Grant, and a Rhodesian mercenary, Kobus Breed.

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007 Author: William Boyd

Who: William Boyd
Born: 7 March 1952, Accra, Gold Coast (nowadays Ghana)

William Boyd, CBE is a British novelist and screenwriter.

On 11 April 2012 it was announced that Boyd would write the next James Bond novel. Boyd says the book, Solo, is set in 1969. Jonathan Cape publish the book in the UK in September 2013.

Boyd used Bond creator Ian Fleming as a character in his novel Any Human Heart. Fleming recruits the book's protagonist, Logan Mountstuart, to naval intelligence during World War Two.

Boyd has also worked with three of the actors who have portrayed Bond in the film series: Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig.

William Boyd's 007 production:

• Solo (2013)

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