![]() ![]() “And Bond was hoping that his West African novel might furnish some shrewder insight into the place.” The reference is fitting, and not just because Boyd has been compared to Greene in the past Boyd’s first book, A Good Man in Africa, won both the Whitbread Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award in the early 1980s. “Greene had served in Sierra Leone during the war-as a spy moreover,” the narrator explains. To pass the time aboard his flight, he nurses a brandy and soda and opens a copy of Graham Greene’s The Heart of the Matter, a story about a British spy in Africa. In his mid-40s, with flecks of graying hair and a smoker’s cough, the secret agent described by author William Boyd in his new book, Solo, feels a lot more like Don Draper than Daniel Craig, whose muscular onscreen 007 raked in more than $2 billion at the box office in recent years.īoyd’s literary version of James Bond is mellower, more polite. ![]() He’s squeezed into a seat on a dimly lit passenger jet bound for war-torn West Africa. It’s 1969, and James Bond has a hangover. ![]()
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