FBF: Charlie Higson: King Zero

Bond is back. Charlie Higson comes to Falmouth with King Zero, an explosive new James Bond novel that sends Ian Fleming’s most famous creation into a world even 007 may no longer understand.

When an agent is murdered in the Saudi desert, it becomes clear that only a traitor could have known enough to bring him down. Bond follows the trail across the globe, unaware that a countdown has already begun and that, somewhere in the shadows, a new kind of enemy is amassing almost unimaginable power.

Charlie joins us to discuss reinventing Bond for a rapidly changing world, the pleasures and perils of inheriting a character known by millions, and how a modern spy story responds to new technologies, shifting allegiances and threats that Fleming could never have anticipated. Who is James Bond when the old certainties have vanished, and how far can you transform an icon before he ceases to be Bond at all?

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Falmouth Book Festival: Charlie Higson: James Bond and King Zero

Thursday 22nd October 7.00pm

Tickets: £7.00/£10.00

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