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Miscellaneous / Verschiedenes » alt.fan.james-bond » Young Bond Book 3
| Young Bond Book 3 [message #284044] |
Mo, 26 Juni 2006 00:58 |
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Charlie Higson Reveals Book 3 Working Titles & Details
Friday, May 19, 2006
In an exclusive Q&A with fans on www.youngbond.com, author Charlie
Higson has provided loads of info on Young Bond Book 3, including
working titles, plot details, locations, and his ambition to make this
third Young Bond novel a "Da Vinci Code for kids."
Here's the scoop from the man himself:
"The third book in the series will be out in January 2007 (just
realised there's a 007 theme to the year! Hope that's a good omen).
The working title for the book is 'Shoot The Moon,' but as we never
stuck with the working title on the first two books it's unlikely
we'll end up calling it that. Another working title is 'The Big
Smoke' (which is the nickname for London - where most of the book
is set)."
"I wanted to send James to a big city, as the first two books had
mostly taken place in the countryside. I chose London because I live in
London, I know it well and I love it. There are some fascinating
unknown corners, and I wanted to do a sort of Da Vinci Code about the
city, in which James has to follow a series of cryptic clues, to find
out what's going on and save the day."
"As usual the book didn't end up anything like I imagined it was going
to be, but there is still more of a mystery/clue solving element to
this book than the first two. It's as different to Blood Fever as
that book was to SilverFin."
"The background of the story is that an Eton master (Alexis Fairburn)
has been kidnapped. He manages to send a coded message explaining
what's happened to him, and it falls into our hero's hands. James
then has 5 days to find out what's happened to him before time runs
out."
"As I say, the story takes place over the course of one week in
December, just before Christmas. (Another working title is 'Six Days
In December'.)"
"The missing master is a crossword fan (so he is good at making up
clues) and a mathematician and the story is also about an early attempt
to build a computer."
"There's lots of action, several nasty deaths, a car chase, a couple
of explosions, a set of evil villains, a beautiful girl, and a climax
in the old London docklands (when it was still full of ships)."
Later in the Q&A, Charlie spoke at length about this climatic
location...
"In the 1930s the London docks were the biggest and busiest in the
world. Docklands was known as the City Of Ships. People used to say
there were so many ships in the Thames you could walk across their
decks from one side of the Thames to the other without getting your
feet wet. Now the whole area has been developed into a modern city
(it's where Canary Wharf and the City Airport are). The area used to
be the heart of the old East End - The working class, cockney part of
London. It was a really fascinating place with some very colourful
characters, and I thought it would be a great setting for the climax of
book 3."
"Other parts of London in the books are the amazing Highgate cemetery
in North London, the Hunterian museum at the Royal College Of Surgeons
and Regent's Park (Bond fans will know the significance of the
park)."
The author also related how he got the ideas for each Young Bond novel,
including Book 3...
"As I say, my initial idea was to do a sort of Da Vinci Code for
kids. I wanted to have James solving some weird clues to find out what
was going on. But as Bond is an action hero rather than a Sherlock
Holmes type, I have put in more action and less clues. But I do still
think that kids like the idea of clues and codes and secrets so there
is quite a lot of that stuff still in there. I also wanted to write
about some of the lesser-known corners of London. I got some of this
in, but, again, the adventure story took over - I didn't want it to be
guidebook, after all. I wanted to write about computers and
code-breaking, so this is at the heart of the book. Proper computers
weren't built until the Second World War, but people were thinking
about them in the thirties. I also wanted to bring back a character
from an earlier book."
Finally, Charlie teased that we will see the first Bondian
"gadgets" of the series...
"...in book 3 there is an early computer, a pneumatic railway under
London (driven by air pressure rather than electricity) and one of the
villains has a combination weapon called an Apache - look it up on
the internet and you'll see what it is. Maybe one of you could e-mail
in a picture if you find one."
Fantastic stuff! And this is just a small sampling of what else is in
this interview. To read the entire Q&A, head on over to
www.youngbond.com and click on James' trunk to enter the forums where
the complete interview is posted.
Source: http://www.youngbonddossier.com/
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