The latter featured Jivan as a character in his last Bond novel.

But the Bond novels are not just thrillers.

Between the years 1962 to 1967 a total of 22,792,000 Bond novels were sold.

Faulks stated that although he enjoyed writing the book, he would write no more Bond novels.

It was Benson's fourth Bond novel and followed the story closely, but with some details changed.

Eleven Bond novels and two short-story collections followed between 1953 and 1966.

This is the first dramatic adaptation of a Bond novel.

However, Pearson declined an offer to write further Bond novels.

Boyd told believes the short title is "strikingly apt" for this particular Bond novel.

Ill health forced Gardner to retire from writing the Bond novels in 1996.