The estate of Ian Fleming has announced a James Bond thriller will be released to commemorate the centenary of his birth (Fleming's not Bond's) and the author is "very well-known and highly respected" ... It's Eyes Only until then ...
The family-owned Ian Fleming Publications Ltd. announced it had struck a contract with a "very well-known and highly respected" author whose identity "will be a closely guarded secret until publication."
"We are delighted to have secured this particular author, whom we have had in mind for some time now," said Corinne Turner, managing director of the company.
(We've only just begun Simon Winder's entertaining The Man Who Saved Britain but Fleming comes in for a drubbing in its early pages as Winder rails against Fleming's upperclass life of privilege. "The sheer, imbecile levels of privilege," he writes, "the thoughtlessness, the parasitism are completely astounding.")
Sounds good.
It would be more exciting if they found a book the Ian Fleming had wriiten himself, hidden away in some old attic of something.
Anyway, Im looking froward to the release.
Posted by: Sam | July 27, 2006 at 03:24 AM