2008: Breakfast - Sebastian Faulks on writing Bond
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The publication of the Bond novel Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks and the 100th anniversary of Ian Fleming's birth prompt Breakfast to take the opportunity to re-evaluate Fleming's hugely successful books. Assistance is provided by writer Kate Mosse and comedian Charlie Higson, who is the author of a series of novels about the young Bond.
The estate of Ian Fleming has periodically approached authors to write Bond novels. Kingsley Amis penned Colonel Sun under the pseudonym of Robert Markham so that any further 007 books by other writers could preserve the illusion of continuity by using the same identity. In the event, subsequent Bond novels by both John Gardner and Raymond Benson were released under the authors' own names.
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