William Boyd (writer) Littérature Européenne and was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2002. "Restless", the tale of a young woman who discovers that her mother had been recruited as a spy during World War II, was published in 2006 and won the Novel of the Year award in the 2006 Costa Book Awards. Boyd's novel "Waiting for Sunrise: A Novel" was published in early 2012. Following "Solo" in 2013 he published "Sweet Caress" in 2015, the fourth novel he has written from a woman's viewpoint. On 11 April 2012 Ian Fleming's estate announced that Boyd would write the next James Bond novel.
The Last Ship (novel) The Last Ship (novel) The Last Ship is a 1988 post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by William Brinkley. A television series loosely based on the novel premiered on June 22, 2014, on TNT. After the success of "Sex, Lies, and Videotape", Steven Soderbergh had planned on making an adaptation of the book as his next film; he would abandon the project after several unsatisfactory screenplay drafts. "The Last Ship" tells the story of a United States Navy guided missile destroyer, the fictional USS "Nathan James" (DDG-80), on patrol in the Barents Sea during a brief, full-scale nuclear war between the United