Devil May Care (James Bond 007 Series) » (Bargain)

Sebastian Faulks’s seven previous novels include the international bestseller Birdsong (1993), Charlotte Gray (2000), and, most recently, Engelby (2007). He lives in London, is married, and has two sons and a daughter.

"Devil May Care is a continuation of the James Bond legacy - a 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 Gomer, a power-crazed pharmaceutical magnate, whose wealth is exceeded only by his greed. Gomer 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.

The Barnes & Noble Review

Were I, James Parker, to be approached by the estate of Ian Fleming and offered terms for the production of a new James Bond novel, one thing alone would be nonnegotiable. Money, dates, even storylines would be up for discussion, but on this single point no threat or incentive could move me: the book would have to be called The Black Daffodil.