![]() ![]() It’s a most enticing challenge to have a chance to add to the myth.” Boyd’s latest novel, Waiting for Sunrise, begins in Vienna in 1913. ![]() Quite how such a man managed to do this is something of a mystery, but there’s no doubt that the (literary) Bond strikes a chord in readers that is profound. “Fleming isn’t in the same league as an author like le Carré-as Fleming would be the first to recognize,” he tells me, “and Fleming wasn’t an intellectual, but he somehow managed to create an almost mythic, emblematic fictional figure that is as enduring as, say, Sherlock Holmes or Philip Marlowe. ![]() “I hoovered the Bond novels up in my early teens,” he continues, but interestingly, given his interest in espionage fiction, he explains that his fascination is more directed at the author than his now famous character (a factor that accounts for Fleming’s appearance in his novel Any Human Heart). ![]()
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