William Boyd (writer) The book, "Solo", is set in 1969; it was published in the UK by Jonathan Cape in September 2013. Boyd used Bond creator Ian Fleming as a character in his novel "Any Human Heart". Fleming recruits the book's protagonist, Logan Mountstuart, to British Naval Intelligence during World War Two. Boyd has also worked with three of the actors who have portrayed Bond in the film series: Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig. Several collections of short stories by Boyd have been published, including "On the Yankee Station" (1981), "The Destiny of Nathalie 'X'" (1995), "Fascination" (2004) and "The Dreams
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