- Published: 26 September 2013
- ISBN: 9781448155163
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
Solo
A James Bond Novel
- Published: 26 September 2013
- ISBN: 9781448155163
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
This is well-plotted, exciting stuff and Boyd has a great sense of time and place. His boozy, maturer, more fallible Bond is totally believable. Mission accomplished, Mr Boyd.
Natasha Harding, Sun
Boyd was a smart choice for a Bond thriller. The action clips along. There are welcome literary flourishes and a dense plot.
Richard Fitzpatrick, Irish Examiner
Written with aplomb, Boyd’s Bond novel is a terrific twisting thriller.
Sunday Times
Anyone wishing this autumn to enjoy the Cold War with the assurance of a happy ending should seek out William Boyd’s new James Bond novel, Solo, in which 007 is dispatched to West Africa and the fictitious country of Zanzarim, where he finds himself in the midst of a civil war.
Stephen McGinty, Scotsman
A fantastic read, which I ripped through in the time it would take to watch Skyfall, as it happens, and I found it significantly more enjoyable.
The Times
A terrific twisting thriller
Sunday Times
William Boyd brings back the real Bond, triumphantly
Daily Mail
A triumph. Bond is back
Observer
Works brilliantly well
Mail on Sunday
Superb
Scotsman
The late Ian Fleming would surely have approved
Daily Mail
Brilliant
Spectator
Keeps us on our toes until the closing pages
Financial Times
Terrific… A tremendous Bond story
Sunday Times
Exciting stuff… Mission accomplished, Mr Boyd
Sun
Manages to enrich and refresh a character we thought we knew too well. Solo is a terrific twisting thriller – just when you smugly think you have spotted a huge hole in the plot, Boyd turns it breathtakingly around.
David Mills, Sunday Times
Since the death of Ian Fleming, plenty of writers have tried their hand at perpetuating the career of James Bond, with mixed results. Boyd’s Solo is undoubtedly one of the best.
Mail on Sunday
A triumphant thriller worthy of Bond’s creator Ian Fleming.
Daily Express
I found myself wondering if Boyd had outdone Fleming.
Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
[Boyd is] an ideal writer of James Bond novels, and this one, his first, is very good
William Leith, Evening Standard
Perfectly judged homage
Mail on Sunday
A brand new James Bond adventure combining all the glamour and excitement of Fleming’s original novels with the masterful storytelling of William Boyd
Western Morning News
A very good piece of literary ventriloquism, with a great baddie
Heathrow Express
Perfectly judged homage
Mail on Sunday
Fleming’s James Bond lives again in this perfectly judged homage
Mail on Sunday