Ian Fleming Publications era and was published on 28 May 2011. On 11 April 2012 it was announced that William Boyd would write the next James Bond novel, entitled "Solo", set at the end of the 1960s. The novel was released in the United Kingdom on 26 September 2013, and in the United States and Canada on 8 October 2013. Written by the pseudonymous R. D. Mascott, it was the first James Bond related book not written by Ian Fleming to be published after Fleming's death. To this day, Ian Fleming Publications has never disclosed or confirmed the author's identity. Written by Fleming's
Solo (Boyd novel) also picked up by Geoffrey Wansell, reviewing for the "Daily Mail", who saw the tribute paid to Fleming as a "masterstroke", in a novel that he thought "brings back the real Bond, triumphantly". Writing in "The Guardian", Richard Williams saw Boyd using some similar phrasing of Fleming's, while also including "gestures of independence" with his own ideas. The result, Williams considers, is a story that "entertains far more than it exasperates". Much of the criticism about the novel focuses on the plot; Jon Stock, writing in "The Daily Telegraph", thought that although Boyd used details in the same way Fleming