Ian Fleming Publications has commissioned Young Bond collection creator Charlie Higson to put in writing a brand new James Bond journey to have fun the coronation of King Charles.
The new 007 story, “On His Majesty’s Secret Service,” brings Bond into the current day. It is May 4, two days earlier than the coronation of King Charles III. Bond is distributed on the final minute to thwart an try to disrupt the coronation by the rich, eccentric and self-styled Athelstan of Wessex, who’s on a lethal mission of his personal to show the United Kingdom a lesson. Bond should dismantle his shady plans and defeat his privately employed crew of mercenaries.
“On His Majesty’s Secret Service” might be revealed on May 4, forward of the coronation on May 6 and 60 years after the publication of Fleming’s tenth novel, “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” in 1963. All royalties from gross sales of the e-book will help the work of the National Literacy Trust, an impartial U.Okay. charity working with faculties and communities to provide deprived youngsters the literacy abilities to reach life.
Higson wrote 5 novels within the Young Bond collection, that are younger grownup spy novels that includes Bond as a teenage boy attending faculty at Eton College within the Nineteen Thirties.
Higson stated: “When Ian Fleming Publications got here to me with the thought of writing an grownup Bond story just a little greater than a month in the past I used to be thrilled – till I realised it needed to be prepared for the coronation in May. Getting it written and circled in such a brief area of time was going to be as tense and heart-pounding as any Bond mission. Although, after all, no person would truly be capturing at me.”
“But I’ve been fascinated about writing an grownup Bond journey ever since engaged on the Young Bond books, and he got here bursting out of me with each fists flying. It was all I may do to maintain up with him and get his story down on paper. Fleming famously wrote quick, and I channelled that power. And now it’s so thrilling for me to lastly enter the world of grown-up Bond.
“Everything you need from a Bond story is in there – intercourse, violence, vehicles, a vibrant villain with a nasty henchman, and naturally, Bond himself, so well-known and but so unknowable,” Higson added.
Managing director of Ian Fleming Publications Corinne Turner stated: “The coronation of King Charles III is a momentous event for the nation. We requested ourselves how we at Ian Fleming Publications may have fun it, and the reply appeared apparent. Ian Fleming’s ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ was first revealed on April 1. 1963. What higher method, 60 years on, to mark this new chapter in historical past than with a model new story: ‘On His Majesty’s Secret Service’? We shared our ideas with Charlie, and he was delighted to tackle the problem of writing a Bond journey in time for publication in May.”
Ian Fleming Publications was within the information just lately when it was revealed that the James Bond novels have been reedited to take away racist content material.
