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- Joined
- Apr 22, 2010
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Clockwise counting 30/50: William Boyd - Solo (2013)
The Ian Fleming estate assigned William Boyd the task of writing the latest instalment in the series of Bond novels. Boyd is a well known "serious" author with a West African background. We find 007 celebrating his 45th birthday by himself in the Dorchester hotel in London. It's the end of the 1960s and Bond is ogling sexually attractive women, driving unusual cars and consuming vast quantities of alcohol. The novel reads like a cartoon without the illustrations, it's full of nonsense but always mildly entertaining.
Bond's mission is to stop a civil war in a West African country and save its oil riches for Western geopolitical interests. He takes a couple of amazingly beautiful women to bed, comes up against a sadistic psychopath, gets shot and hands out swift retribution. As good or as mediocre as anything Ian Fleming wrote in the 1950s.
The Ian Fleming estate assigned William Boyd the task of writing the latest instalment in the series of Bond novels. Boyd is a well known "serious" author with a West African background. We find 007 celebrating his 45th birthday by himself in the Dorchester hotel in London. It's the end of the 1960s and Bond is ogling sexually attractive women, driving unusual cars and consuming vast quantities of alcohol. The novel reads like a cartoon without the illustrations, it's full of nonsense but always mildly entertaining.
Bond's mission is to stop a civil war in a West African country and save its oil riches for Western geopolitical interests. He takes a couple of amazingly beautiful women to bed, comes up against a sadistic psychopath, gets shot and hands out swift retribution. As good or as mediocre as anything Ian Fleming wrote in the 1950s.