New Bond

It looks like the Bond estate is betting they can re-invent the Bond book franchise as they did the movie franchise with Daniel Craig. The estate commissioned literary novelist Sebastian Faulks, author of Birdsong, among others, to write a new Bond novel. It will not be the first post-Fleming Bond novel. John Gardner wrote a passel of them in the 80s and 90s and Raymond Benson picked up after him. I suspect the estate is hoping to go a bit higher profile with the Faulks choice.