James Bond is given a new lease of life in the next installment of the spy franchise as the latest book ‘Solo’ was revealed at a London’s Dorchester Hotel on Tuesday 24th September.
The books author is British screenwriter and former lecturer at St Hildia’s College, Oxford, William Boyd and he sets the reincarnation of Bond in West Africa on the night the spy’s 45th birthday in 1969.
The tale takes him across the great continent which is entangled in a furious civil-war and to ‘the land of opportunity’, America. On the way their will be the patent symbolic vehicle of Bond and British class, the Aston Martin, and the company of two (most likely gorgeous) women.
It seems to be the Bond we know and love so far, but are the big differences from the ‘modern day Bond’ to Boyd’s Bond? Recently speaking to the DailyMail Boyd stated “Times have changed but Bond is a heavy smoker, there is a wonderful line in one of the novels, which is Bond lit his 70th cigarette of the day”.
