Jeffery Deaver in the Bond world

Where to begin

Carte Blanche is a contemporary restart rather than a missing 1950s or 1960s assignment. Its Bond comes from a post-9/11 intelligence world. You can begin here without another continuation author, although it is useful to know Fleming’s original first. Deaver’s puzzle-driven thriller style provides the main change of approach.

Reading order

1. Carte Blanche (2011)

   A Bond shaped by the post-9/11 world has five days to stop a planned attack that could kill thousands of people. Exceptional authority gives him freedom to investigate, but discovering the threat’s destination and method requires following suspects whose intentions remain unclear.