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London: A new James Bond novel was launched on Tuesday to mark the centenary of creator Ian Fleming's birth, and sees the fictional British spy go to the Middle East for the first time.
An extract from the novel talks of Bond's contact in Tehran, having a firm handshake that "spoke of frankness and friendship - not the half-hearted, slippery recoil that Bond had encountered in Beirut and Cairo".
Devil May Care had an extravagant launch with the first copies of the book being transported up the River Thames in a military speedboat before being unpacked aboard HMS Exeter, a destroyer moored near Tower Bridge.
The book has been written by Sebastian Faulks, a respected literary novelist whose books include the World War I novel Birdsong and the French Resistance saga Charlotte Gray.
Not much is known about the plot of the book so far, other than that the book has a 1960s Cold War setting, there are locations in Paris, Rome and the Middle East and there is torture and romance.
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