Solo (Boyd novel) Solo (Boyd novel) Solo is a James Bond continuation novel written by William Boyd. It was published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 26 September 2013 in hardback, e-book and audio editions, and in the US by HarperCollins on 8 October 2013. The plot centres on Bond's mission to the civil war in the fictional country of Zanzarin—a thinly veiled version of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War—where he meets the local MI6 contact, Efua Blessing Ogilvy-Grant, and a Rhodesian mercenary, Kobus Breed. After being shot by Ogilvy-Grant, Bond tracks both people to Washington on a revenge mission, finally
William Langhorne Bond working farm and served on the board of directors of the Kentucky River Coal Company. William Bond died in 1985. Bond had started compiling his memoirs, which were later edited by James E. Ellis and published in 2001 as "Wings for an Embattled China". While returning from a vacation in the United States in 1934, Bond met Katherine Dunlop (1905-1988); they were married in Beijing May 15, 1935. The couple had two sons, Langhorne Bond (who later became head of the Federal Aviation Administration) and Thomas Dunlop Bond (July 12, 1942-). William Langhorne Bond William Langhorne Bond (November 12, 1893-