Last year Jeffery Deaver became the latest author to conjure up a new adventure for the world's most famous spy, James Bond.
Only the second American writer to become a custodian of Ian Fleming's legacy, Deaver decided to reboot the story and imagine Bond as a contemporary agent, veteran of the war in Afghanistan and a shrewd user of smartphone apps.
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As Carte Blanche comes out in paperback for the first time, we sat down with the best-selling author to hear whats it's been like facing 007 fanatics, how he feels about the man responsible for the next installment William Boyd and whether or not Daniel Craig makes a good onscreen version of a character he's loved all his life.