Paperback edition of `Devil May Care` set for May release in USA

12-Sep-2008 • Literary

The latest James Bond continuation novel "Devil May Care" will be released in paperback in the US in May 2009.

Sebastian Faulks' novel was originally released in hardback on May 28th 2008 to celebrate what would have been Ian Fleming's 100th birthday.

Random House will publish the book in paperback in the USA on May 12th 2009 for $14.95. The trade paperback will run for 304 pages.

Blurb
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 Gorner, a power-crazed pharmaceutical magnate, whose wealth is exceeded only by his greed. Gorner 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 threaten 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.