Author: Sebastian Faulks (as Ian Fleming)
In the book Devil May Care, the newest James Bond novel, Bond is called from his sabbatical in Rome to uncover a dangerous and potentially catastrophic plot to take over the world (as I interpreted it). This radical plan is one of many lethal distractions that MI6 and Bond have to deal with in the heat of the Cold War. Throughout the book James receives much needed help from French/Russian Scarlett Papava and her mysterious twin.
I thought that during the course of the novel Sebastian Faulks tended to struggle with his diction; often choosing the same words frequently, thus lacking variety in his vocabulary. Despite these struggles Faulks did an excellent job developing the character's throughout the book. He also did a superb job making the reader feel as if he or she was right there watching the story unfold right in front of them. His dialogue was also very convincing.
"It was a very wet evening in Paris. On the slate roofs of the big boulevards and the small mansards of the Latin Quarter, the rain kept up a ceaseless patter." The first two sentences of the book and already the author is using excellent visualization making the reader feel like they were there. Doing an excellent job in making the characters sound the same as they would in real life Faulks again uses visualization: "Betveen de crosses row on row" and "I am Hamid. I take you to Caspian Sea. You bring bathing trousers no?", both quotes are made to sound foreign making them very realistic. Throughout the book Sebastian Faulks displayed brilliant visualisation as proven by the previous quotes.
