Sebastian Faulks
"It's a very traditional
Bond story, it's got all the bits that you like about a
Bond adventure and none of the boring bits. So it's got
pace, adventure... It has - not one - but two beautiful
women.
Ian Fleming loved trains, so there are
trains. He loved cars, so there are cars. There is also
something
I've discovered, a very exotic Cold War era vehicle -
I can't really think how better to describe it. And of
course
the book has high-life and adventure.
I tried to isolate the essential and the most enjoyable
aspects of the books. Then I took that pattern and added
characters and a story of my own with as much speed and
as many twists as I thought the reader could bear.
I developed a prose that is about 80 per cent Fleming.
I didn't go the final distance for fear of straying into
pastiche, but I strictly observed his rules of chapter
and sentence construction.
My novel is meant to stand in the line
of Fleming's own books, where the story is everything."
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