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Article: FICTION JOHN PRESTON SEES WHETHER SEBASTIAN FAULKS SUCCEEDS IN HIS MISSION TO RECREATE BOND
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- June 8, 2008
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Devil May Care
BY SEBASTIAN FAULKS
'WRITING AS IAN FLEMING'
PENGUIN, pounds 18.99, 320 pp
T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
Page 192 of Sebastian Faulks's James Bond novel finds his evil
genius, Dr Julius Gorner, musing on the nature of villainy. Although
Gorner has opted for heroin and high explosives as his chosen
instruments for achieving global domination, he reveals that he once
considered buying up newspapers instead.
'Suppose I had bought the most distinguished paper of your
Establishment hypocrites, The Times. Then I could have put it in the
hands of some malleable editor who shared my hatred of Britain and
attacked the country from its own mouthpiece. I could have ...