Licence to thrill

The latest adventure of Her Majesty's number one spy, famous for his British suiting and cars, is all set to be written by American writer Jeffery Deaver. Ian Flemming Publications ltd, in an effort to breathe life into the super-spy and his dare-devil antics, has roped in sixty-year-old millionaire thriller writer Deaver, who was hailed as 'the master of ticking-bomb suspense.' To date he is credited for writing 26 novels and selling more than 20 million books worldwide.

The novel, which has been mysteriously but temporarily dubbed Project X, will be published in a years time - in time to mark Bond creator Flemming's 103 birth anniversary.

Deaver was chosen after he voiced his great admiratoion for Flemming in his acceptance speech when he won the Crime-Writers' Association's Ian Flemming's Steel Dagger Award for his book Garden Of Beasts in 2004. He admitted to being a fan ever sibnce he was a child and claimed to have learnt much of Flemming's literary technique.

'I can't describe the thrill I felt when first approached by Ian Flemming's estate to ask if I'd be interested in writing the next book in the James Bond series,' he admits. 'The Bond books were important parts of my life. They appealed to me as wonderful stories but also stood as singular examples of a thriller writers craft.'

Jeffery Deaver is best known for his crime novel The Bone Collector, which was later turned into a film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. Before turning his hand to writing books full-time, Deaver was a journalist, like Flemming, and also a lawyer.

To date more than 100 million Bond books have been sold around the world.

(Notables by Deaver: The Empty Chair, The Coffin Dancer, Roadside Crosses, The Broken Window, The Burning Wire: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel.)

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