The Golden Typewriter

Sebastian Faulks in the Bond world

Devil May Care was commissioned for Fleming’s birth centenary.

By Does Your Duck QuackUpdated 29 September 2026

Where to begin

Devil May Care marks Fleming’s 2008 birth centenary by returning to the Cold War. Read The Man with the Golden Gun first for its stated starting context. Faulks wrote one Bond novel, so there is no separate author sequence to follow. Choose it for a period mission after Fleming’s ending.

Reading order

  1. Devil May Care (2008)

    In the 1960s, narcotics are flooding Britain and industrialist Julius Gorner appears to be behind the supply that M wants investigated. Bond follows the danger through Paris to Persia in Faulks’s period mission, which returns to Fleming’s world after the confrontation with Scaramanga.

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Devil May Care

2008 · Sebastian Faulks

In the 1960s, narcotics are flooding Britain and industrialist Julius Gorner appears to be behind the supply that M wants investigated. Bond follows the danger through Paris to Persia in Faulks’s period mission, which returns to Fleming’s world after the confrontation with Scaramanga.

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Where next

Sources (6)
  1. Ian Fleming Publications: James Bond libraryPublisher
  2. Ian Fleming Publications: bibliographyPublisher
  3. Ian Fleming Publications: Sebastian FaulksPublisher
  4. Publisher: Devil May CarePublisher
  5. Audible UK: Devil May CareRetailer listing
  6. Bookshop.org UK: print editionRetailer listing