Devil May Care author Sebastian Faulks talks about Fleming`s thriller guide

NPR have published an audio interview with author Sebastian Faulks online, as well as an except from his latest novel - "Engleby".

Faulks talks about citing an Ian Fleming article entitled: "How To Write A Thriller" (for SHOW Magazine in 1962) as part of the reason he took on the challenge to pen a new James Bond novel for 2008.

Click here to listen to the interview online.

Devil May Care will be published next May to mark the centenary of Fleming's birth. Set at the height of the Cold War, the action is played out over two continents and "several of the world's most thrilling cities", although the plot remains veiled in secrecy.

Faulks's Bond is "damaged and ageing" according to the author. "He has been widowed and been through a lot of bad things," he said.

"He is slightly more vulnerable than any previous Bond but at the same time he is both gallant and highly sexed, if you can be both."

Click here for full coverage of Devil May Care on MI6.

Thanks to `Q` for the alert.

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