"Project X"

    Published:   May 2011, Simon & Schuster

   

   Plot:

   Ian Fleming Publications Ltd has chosen
   international bestselling thriller writer, Jeffery
   Deaver, to write a new James Bond book.

   The novel, currently known as Project X, will be
   published on May 28, 2011 — for Ian Fleming's
   birthday. It will be published by Jeffery Deaver's
   publishers Hodder & Stoughton in the UK and
   Simon & Schuster in the US.

007 came to life fully-formed in 1952 when Ian Fleming wrote Casino Royale. Since then over 100 million James Bond books have sold worldwide.

In 2004, Deaver won the Crime Writers' Association's Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for his book Garden of Beasts. In his acceptance speech he talked about his life-long admiration of Fleming's writing.

Deaver comments, 'I can't describe the thrill I felt when first approached by Ian Fleming's estate to ask if I'd be interested in writing the next book in the James Bond series. I began reading them when I was about nine or ten, ignorant of the Cold War politics they explored but enthralled by their sense of adventure and derring-do. I continued to read and reread them, which was fortunate because as a teen and adult I found, of course, nuances, that were invisible to a child.'

He continues, 'The Bond books were important parts of my life – both literarily and personally. They appealed to me as wonderful stories but they also stood as singular examples of a thriller writer's craft. I learned, through osmosis as well as design, much technique from Mr. Fleming's work; compactness, attention to detail, heroic though flawed characters, fast-pacing, concrete imagery and straight-forward prose.'

Project X will be set in the present day. Jeffery Deaver has started work on the book and his title is yet to be revealed.