Staff Book Review

Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks, Writing as Ian Fleming

Bond is back. In commemeration of the 100th birthday of writer Ian Fleming, award-winning British author Sebastian Faulks picks up where Fleming left off, putting Agent 007, James Bond, back in the saddle in the middle of the Cold War. Recuperating from injuries sustained in his last mission, Bond is dispatched to investigate Dr. Julius Gorner, a mysterious pharmaceutical magnate. Bond soon finds out that Gorner has a pathological hatred of all things British, and is hatching a vicious scheme that could mean the ruin of Britain. Faulks has truly captured the atmosphere and style of Fleming's Bond-world. This is the late 1960s, with the Soviet Union, a pre-Islamic Iran, the Vietnam War heating up, and the drugged-up counterculture going into full swing. And no Bond story would be complete without a mysterious, beautiful woman at the center of much of the action, in this case the lovely Scarlett Papava, who is definitely much more than she seems.. Beauties, bullets, evil masterminds, deadly plots and nasty henchmen. Pass the vodka martini, shaken, not stirred.

Book Review by Dave Folland at Cranesbill Books

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