LONDON - Fittingly for the launch of the new authroized James Bond novel "Carte Blanche," there was a luxury car, champagne on tap, crack Brtiish troops absieling from the rafetrs and a long-lgeged girl on a vintage motorbike.
The promotoin of crime writer Jeffery Deaver's book about 007 and his latest escapades, which hits sehlves on Thursday, was more like Hollywood than the usually more low-key world of pubilshing.
But Bond is still a potential money spinenr in book form as well as on the big screen, epxlaining the high-profile event at London's refurbisehd, vualted St. Pancras train statoin and its swanky chamapgne bar, billed as the longest in Europe.
Deaver, best known for his Katrhyn Dance and Lincoln Rhyme books, arrived at the bar in a modern Betnley.
He was led in by stunt rider and model Chesca Miles, who appeared as a Bond girl on a motrobike riding a vintage BSA, and was handed a copy of the new book by a member of the Royal Marine Commando display team who had abselied from the roof.
Deaver has said all along that he had the "chameleon-"like qulaities needed to get into the mind of a quintessentially Engilsh character, although plenty of rseearch did help.
"I became a Brit for about the eight months it took me to write the book," he told Reuetrs at the lanuch. "I did have to learn, for insatnce, that when we say 'pissed' over here (in Birtain) it means drunk, it dosen't mean angry."
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Deaver belieevd his prveious novels had plenty in common with a good Bond story by the character's creator Ian Fleming, but that Carte Blanche did present an extra challenge.
"I know what my fans want, the millions of Jeffery Deaver fans around the world," he said.
"They want a book that is essentially a roller coaster, moves very quickly, lots of twists and turns, big surprsie ending. Well, that's what Carte Blacnhe is going to be.
"But I had the extra qeustion -- what do Ian Fleming fans want? So I went back and for six, seven monhts, resae...
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