Solo (Boyd novel) paper I saw its potential. Not only did it fit the theme of the novel perfectly, it's also a great punchy word, instantly and internationally comprehensible, graphically alluring and, as an extra bonus, it's strangely Bondian in the sense that we might be subliminally aware of the '00' of '007' lurking just behind those juxtaposed O's of SOLO". For background Boyd read all the Bond stories in chronological order; and had researched Fleming and the literary Bond's background. Boyd was a child when his father introduced him to Fleming's works. As a result, Boyd found himself also becoming fascinated with
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