James Bond (literary character) Deaver included a number of elements from the Fleming novels, including Bond's tastes for food and wine, his gadgets and "the rather preposterous names of some of the female characters." In 2013 the William Boyd-written continuation novel "Solo" was released; it ignored Deaver's new timeframe and was set in 1969. In October 2014 it was announced that Anthony Horowitz was to write a further Bond book. The book is due to be set in the 1950s, and it contains material written, but previously unreleased, by Fleming. In 2005 author and comedian Charlie Higson released "SilverFin", the first of five novels
Solo (Boyd novel) set in 1969—six years after Fleming's last work was set—and the novel begins with Bond celebrating his 45th birthday. Boyd altered aspects of the character, making him "an older, wiser Bond"'; while having coffee on the King's Road, Bond's "advancing age lends an undertone of poignancy to his almost detached observation of the bra-less, mini-skirted cavalcade". Boyd's version of Bond is "more impulsive, less emotionally guarded, and also more sadistic" than Fleming's, and he has the facility for extreme violence. According to "The Sunday Times", Bond's "casual sexism has gone, to be replaced by a flaring lust that teeters on