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Devil May Care
Sebastian Faulks
- Unabridged
Narrator: Jeremy Northam
Length: 8 hours and 21 min.
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Winner of the British Book Awards, Popular Fiction Award, 2009.Nominated for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2008.This new instalment in the adventures of the world's most iconic spy has been written by one of Britain's most admired novelists, Sebastian Faulks.
"My novel is meant to stand in the line of Fleming's own books, where the story is everything." said Faulks, "In his house in Jamaica, Ian Fleming used to write a thousand words in the morning, then go snorkelling, have a cocktail, lunch on the terrace, more diving, another thousand words in late afternoon, then more Martinis and glamorous women.
In my house in London, I followed this routine exactly, apart from the cocktails, the lunch and the snorkelling."Picking up from where Fleming left off in 1966 with The Living Daylights / Octopussy, Faulks has written the perfect continuation of the James Bond legacy.
Devil May Care is set during the Cold War and features all the glamour, thrills and excitement that one would expect from any adventure involving Bond... James Bond.
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Critics Reviews
"Jeremy Northam's accents intensify the book's 1960s atmosphere nicely, but we soon realise that there is purpose as well as fun here. The Iran-set novel reminds us of how much damage our colonial past has done to our present. Its evil mastermind had a scheme to saturate British cities with heroin, and another to acquire The Times and other newspapers to destroy the credibility of British politics. Older, less lascivious, and beginning to creak at the joints, Bond is feeling his years. But he is still a man of infinite resource and sagacity and now likes pepper - cracked, not ground - on his scrambled eggs." (The Times)
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Devil May Care (Unabridged)
17/06/2008
Fantastic book, and having only ever watched Bond movies (and being a great fan of them) I was delighted with this book - it was true Bond and with the excellent narration, it almost made me miss my bus stop several times I was so involved in the story. The pace was great and I could truly imagine all the great Bonds in the role and more realisticaly Bond was showing his age in 1960's London but still managed to show what he was capable of in the worst of situations (typically far-fetched in Bond fashion but then that is true Bond). My only regret is that the book finished too soon, it was so easy to listen too.
Most Recent Reviews
Oh dear. This book is rather disappointing.
08/08/2010
The riter has attempted to produce a retro-style tale of a 1960's Bond adventure, but all we are given is a rather tired, dated and predictable book that falls too easily into the Bond cliche. Tiresome lists of product names, name dropping of venues and hotels, all of which fails to disguise the fact that there is a very simple, uninspired storyline which fails to surprise. this is the kind of book that an 11 year old boy might enjoy, and there are those who say that is the state of the Bond franchise, but as a book this really left me feeling underwhelmed and disappointed.
Not your average Bond
03/07/2010
Not much like Fleming's Bond. The gratuitous violence in this book would never appear in any of Ian Fleming's titles. The storyline is weak and the girl unlikely, but still not a bad read.
