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Devil May Care (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper)) | 
 enlarge | Author: Sebastian Faulks
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  72 reviews
Sales Rank: 950383
Format: Large Print
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0739327852
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780739327852
ASIN: 0739327852
Publication Date: May 28, 2008
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10 THINGS YOU DIDNT KNOW ABOUT JAMES BOND & IAN FLEMING
A Quiz Q: Although James Bond is regarded by many as the quintessential English hero, he is actually not English. What is his nationality in the books?
A: He is half Scottish and half Swiss. He also hates that most English of drinks, tea--and describes it as 'mud'! Q: Bond has had many famous incarnations on the big screen but, prior to these, he was first played on the radio by which British actor and game show host?
A: Bob Holness of Blockbusters fame Q: Which Bond villain shares a birthday with his creator?
A: Ernst Stavro Blofeld. On Her Majesty's Secret Service reveals that Blofeld was born on 28 May 1908. Ian Lancaster Fleming entered the world on the same day at 7 Green Street in London. Q: Which American President was a big fan of the Fleming novels?
A: President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy was known to be a big fan of Fleming and listed From Russia With Love as one of his top 10 favourite books. Bizarrely, both Kennedy and his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald are believed to have been reading Bond novels the night before Kennedy was killed. Q: Which famed childrens author helped Ian Fleming adapt his children's adventure story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for the big screen?
A: Roald Dahl Q: Where did Fleming write all his Bond books?
A: At Goldeneye, his Jamaican home. Although now part of a luxurious holiday resort, the house was very basic in Fleming's time--so much so that his friend and neighbour Noel Coward referred to it as Goldeneye, Nose and Throat! Q: Although Ursula Andress wears the most famous bikini in cinema history in her iconic performance in Doctor No, in Fleming's novel of the same name the character Honeychile Rider wears even less. What does she wear?
A: She is naked save for a knife-belt. Q: The first Bond novel, Casino Royale, originally had a different title when it was published in the US. Under what title was it initially published here?
A: The initial title here was Too Hot To Handle. Q: What is James Bonds favorite meal?
A: Breakfast. He has a particular penchant for scrambled eggs, and the short story 007 in New York even includes his own recipe for them. Q: Who is Miss Moneypenny named for?
A: Miss Moneypenny was named after a character in an unpublished novel written by Ian Fleming's brother, the travel writer Peter Fleming.
Product Description
Bond is back. With a vengeance. Devil May Care is an electrifying new chapter in the life of the most iconic spy of literature and film, written to celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth on May 28, 1908.
An Algerian drug runner is savagely executed in the desolate outskirts of Paris. This seemingly isolated event leads to the recall of Agent 007 from his sabbatical in Rome and his return to the world of intrigue and danger where he is most at home. The head of MI6, M, assigns him to shadow the mysterious Dr. Julius Gorner, a power-crazed pharmaceutical magnate, whose wealth is exceeded only by his greed. Gorner has lately taken a disquieting interest in opiate derivatives, both legal and illegal, and this urgently bears looking into.
Bond finds a willing accomplice in the shape of a glamorous Parisian named Scarlett Papava. He will need her help in a life-and-death struggle with his most dangerous adversary yet, as a chain of events threatens to lead to global catastrophe. A British airliner goes missing over Iraq. The thunder of a coming war echoes in the Middle East. And a tide of lethal narcotics threatens to engulf a Great Britain in the throes of the social upheavals of the late sixties.
Picking up where Ian Fleming left off, Sebastian Faulks takes Bond back to the height of the Cold War–but also shows Bond facing dangers with a powerful relevance to our own times.
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 Bond...Stirred Not Shaken October 9, 2008
Devil May Care was a good read all things considered. It could never be confused with a "real" Ian Fleming book, but I enjoyed it. I say "stirred not shaken" because Faulks tries to stick to Fleming's style, but falls short (there's an absurd tennis match for example). I am glad I found the book at my local Library and did not have to pay the hardcover price for it! Wait for the paperback. If Faulks were to write another Bond novel I would probably read it if I could get it at the Library.
 The devil may care - I sure don't! October 7, 2008
How much do I think of this novel? Not much. So little in fact, that I've just put the copy I bought for myself for sale on Ebay.
I really wanted to enjoy this novel, but in my opinion it just doesn't entertain the way a Bond novel should. In fact I didn't find it entertaining at all. "Writing as Ian Fleming" - rubbish.
The first time I tried to read this book I stopped after about forty pages. I realised that at no point during that time had the book felt like a Bond novel, or had been entertaining.
A few weeks later I thought I'd give it another try. This time after about 80 pages I gave up for good. The book quite simply is uninspiring, and I had both total indifference to both the plot and the characters.
While not all of Raymond Benson's ideas of what to do with the Bond novels worked, at least the majority of his novels were entertaining. This in comparison is quite simply does not have enough of a Bond feel to it. It's no Goldfinger, or even Colonel Sun, that's for sure.
Since other authors, like Clive Cussler, can consistently turn out interesting and entertaining novels, there's really no excuse for uninspired writing. Over and out...
 NOT WORTHY OF THE FLEMING NAME September 22, 2008
Allowing Faulks to write "as Ian Fleming" was obviously a public relations gimmick - it's certainly not based on merit. The first half of this novel is competent but undistinquised - in no way superior to the pastiches by John Gardner or others. But the second half falls apart. I had the feeling Faulks' original manuscript was 20 or 30 thousand words short, and the publisher needed padding. The final 1/3 of the book was absolutely pointless. In all, an annoying read.
DEVIL MAY CARE September 12, 2008
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I HAVE NOT YET RECEIVED THIS PRODUCT - ORDER NO. 102=3124131-8290667.
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Bond. James Bond. September 11, 2008
This is a new novel featuring 007- and the third author to write a Bond novel since Fleming passed away.
In some ways I would say this was an astonishingly good emulation of the originals. The author quite understood whose style he was emulating, and I wouldn't be surprised if someone told me he'd written this one with a stack of the Fleming Bond novels cracked open with sentences diagrammed and plot elements carefully analyzed on every page.
On the other hand, though, Mr. Faulks' attention to the stylistic and plot specifics of the earlier Bond novels has created one problem: this one wouldn't translate forward of the late 60s at all easily, as the plot revolves around situations present in that era, which no longer exist in our world. The world of Fleming's Bond is very specific to the era of their publication- the Cold War was unfolding in a very particular way based on the geopolitics of the time.
Overall, though, I found this book a fun read, and a more than fitting 100th birthday present for Mr. Fleming.
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