Ny James Bond-roman ges ut (Project X)

Av: Anders Frejdh

Publicerad:
2010-05-28

James Bond in Jeffery Deavers Carte Blanche

Ian Fleming Publications Ltd har valt den internationellt bästsäljande deckarförfattaren Jeffery Deaver till att skriva en ny James Bond-roman. Läs hela pressmeddelandet.

Romanen, som för närvarande kallas Project X , kommer att publiceras den 26 maj 2011 - två dagar innan Ian Flemings födelsedag. Den kommer att publiceras av Jeffery Deavers förlag Hodder & Stoughton i Storbritannien och Simon & Schuster i USA.

Jeffery Deaver har hittills skrivit 26 romaner och sålt över 20 miljoner böcker över hela världen. Hans böcker har toppat försäljningslistorna på båda sidor av Atlanten och han har beskrivits som "den mest kreativa, kunniga och spännande författaren av thrillers i världen" (Daily Telegraph) och "en mästare på spänning likt tickande bomber" (People) .

1852 kom 007 till livet fullt ut när Ian Fleming skrev Casino Royale. Sedan dess har över 100 miljoner James Bond böcker sålts över hela världen.

2004 fick Deaver utmärkelsen Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award av Crime Writers Association för sin bok Garden of Beasts. I sitt tacktal uttryckte han om sin livslånga beundran över Flemings skrivande.

Corinne Turner, VD för Ian Fleming Publications Ltd, var i publiken. Hon förklarar: I'd always enjoyed Jeffery Deaver's thrillers, but I particularly liked Garden of Beasts : it demonstrated that he was not only a master of the contemporary American thriller but could also write compelling novels of period suspense within a European setting. I didn't know anything about the author himself and expected a fairly low key response from him when he received our award.

I was surprised and delighted when he spoke very fondly of Ian and about the influence that the Bond books had had on his own writing career. It was at that point that I first thought that James Bond could have an interesting adventure in Jeffery Deaver's hands.

Deaver kommenterar: I can't describe the thrill I felt when first approached by Ian Fleming's estate to ask if I'd be interested in writing the next book in the James Bond series. I began reading them when I was about nine or ten, ignorant of the Cold War politics they explored but enthralled by their sense of adventure and derring-do. Jag började läsa dem när jag var ungefär nio eller tio, ovetande om det kalla kriget politik de utforskade men trollbundit av deras känsla av äventyr och OFÖRVÄGENHET. I continued to read and reread them, which was fortunate because as a teen and adult I found, of course, nuances, that were invisible to a child.

Han fortsätter: The Bond books were important parts of my life – both literarily and personally. They appealed to me as wonderful stories but they also stood as singular examples of a thriller writer's craft. I learned, through osmosis as well as design, much technique from Mr. Fleming's work; compactness, attention to detail, heroic though flawed characters, fast-pacing, concrete imagery and straight-forward prose.

Till skillnad från Sebastian Faulks hundraårsroman I Djävulens Tjänst kommer Project X utspelas i nutid. Jeffery Deaver har inlett arbetet med boken men titeln är ännu inte avslöjad.

David Rosenthal, vice VD och ansvarig utgivare för Simon & Schuster, kommenterar: For Simon & Schuster, Deaver and Bond are a peerless combination: clever, suspenseful and sophisticated. Jeff Deaver will produce a popular entertainment of the highest order.

Jeffery Deaver är författare till ett antal internationellt bästsäljande brott serien. Han är mest känd för sina Kathryn Dance och Lincoln Rhyme böcker, främst I samlarens spår, som var anpassad för film 1999, svensk skådespelare Denzel Washington och Angelina Jolie. Deaver has also written two award-winning short story collections, as well as stand-alone novels including Garden of Beasts and The Bodies Left Behind , which was named Novel of the Year at the International Thriller Writers' Awards in 2009. Deaver har också skrivit två prisbelönta novellsamlingar, samt fristående romaner inklusive Garden of Beasts och organ kvar, som utsågs till romanen av året vid den internationella Thriller Writers 'Awards 2009.

Jeffery Deaver föddes nära Chicago 1950. Innan han blev författare på heltid 1990 arbetade han som journalist, precis som Fleming, och advokat. Han började skriva romaner spänning på den långa pendlar till och från hans kontor på Wall Street. Hans böcker finns nu översatta till 25 språk. Deaver bor i North Carolina.

Jeffery Deaver senaste Lincoln Rhyme deckare Burning Wire, kommer att ges ut i USA den 1 juni och i Storbritannien den 22 juli. En fristående deckare med titeln Edge kommer sedan att publiceras i november 2010 i både USA och Storbritannien.

De ursprungliga Fleming romanerna publiceras över hela världen av Penguin Books.

OFFICIELLT UTTALANDE FRÅN JEFFERY DEAVER
When first approached by Ian Fleming's estate and the publishing company that oversees his work to ask if I'd be interested in writing the next book in the James Bond series, I can't describe the thrill I felt.

My history with Bond goes back fifty years. I was about eight or nine when I picked up my first Bond novel. I was a bit precocious when it came to reading, but I have my parents to thank for that. They had a rule that I was not allowed to watch certain movies, but I could read anything that I could get my hands on. This was ironic since, in the 1950s and early '60s, you'd never see sex or violence on the screen. So, I was allowed to read every Bond book my father brought home or that I could afford with my allowance.

I felt Fleming's influence early. My first narrative fiction, written when I was eleven, was based on Bond. It was about a spy who stole a top-secret airplane from the Russians. The agent was American but had a British connection, having been stationed, like my father, in East Anglia during WWII.

I can still recall the moment when I heard on the news that Fleming had died – I was in my mid-teens. It was as if I had lost a good friend or uncle. Nearly as troubling was the TV anchorman who reported that Bond, too, would die in the final pages of the last book, The Man with the Golden Gun. I was in agony until I could buy it the moment it was released. I read it in one sitting and learned the truth - at least I'd only have to mourn the loss of one of my heroes, not two.

I have won or been nominated for a number of awards for my thriller writing but the one that I'm the most proud of is the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, presented in conjunction with the UK's Crime Writers' Association, for my thriller Garden of Beasts. The award is in the shape of a commando knife that Fleming is said to have carried in his days working for the Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War. The imposing award sits in the middle of my mantelpiece at home.

I don't want to give much away about the new book yet, except to say that it takes place in the present day and that the story occurs over a short period of time and finds Bond in three or four exotic locations around the globe.

The novel will maintain the persona of James Bond as Fleming created him and the unique tone the author brought to his books, while incorporating my own literary trademarks: detailed research, fast pacing and surprise twists.

As far as any parallels between Bond's life and mine, there are a few, I'll admit. I enjoy fast cars – I've owned a Maserati and a Jaguar, and I now take my BMW M3 or Infiniti G37 to the track occasionally. I'm a downhill skier and scuba diver. I enjoy single-malt scotch and American bourbons—not vodka, though if I recall from my reading of the Bond books, the spy himself drank whisky considerably more often than his "shaken, not-stirred" martinis.

BOND-BÖCKERNA
• Över 100 miljoner Bond-böcker har sålts (och över hälften av världens befolkning har sett en Bond-film!)

• Ian Fleming skrev 14 James Bond böcker: Casino Royale (1953); Leva och Låta Dö (1954); Attentat (1955); Döden Spelar Falskt; Kamrat Mördare (1957); Döden på Jamaica (1958); Goldfinger (1959); Ur Dödlig Synvinkel (1960); Åskbollen (1961); Älskade Spion (1962); I Hennes Majestäts Hemliga Tjänst (1963); Man Lever Bara Två Gånger (1964); Mannen Med Den Gyllene Pistolen (1965) och Octopussy (1966)

• Fleming's övriga verk inkluderar barnfavoriten Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1964) som det gjorts en film och en musikal av, The Diamond Smugglers (1957) och en samling reseskrifter kallad Laddade Metropoler (1963)

• Ian Flemings hundraårsjubileum firades den 28 maj 2008 med offentliggörandet av I Djävulens Tjänst av Sebastian Faulks. Denna publikation utgjorde mittpunkten till ett år av firande som innehöll en stjärnspäckad gala på London Palladium, en TV-dokumentär av BBC som presenterades av Joanna Lumley, en utställning på Imperial War Museum och en välgörenhetstävling i golf till förmån för organisationen The British Heart Foundation

• Charlie Higson är författare till böckerna om den unge Bond som publiceras av Puffin

• Samantha Weinberg, skrivandes som Kate Westbrook, är författaren till Moneypenny Diaries (ej översatta till svenska)

• Andra tidigare författare av officiella James Bond-romaner inkluderar Kingsley Amis, John Gardner och Raymond Benson

• Besök IanFleming.com

• För mer information om Jeffery Deaver, besök www.jefferydeaver.com

Läs mer om Carte Blanche på Ian Fleming Publications officiella webbplats för boken:
www.007carteblanche.co.uk

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