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Dan Jones, historian
and bestselling author of Henry V, The Plantagenets, The Templars
and the Essex Dogs trilogy, has been commissioned by Ian
Fleming Publications to write a new James Bond adventure to celebrate
the National Year of Reading and the ‘Go All In’ campaign, it is
announced today, Monday 5 October, universally recognised as ‘James
Bond Day’
ALL IN will be published as a special edition hardback novella via ianflemingshop.com
on Thursday 3 December 2026, and pays tribute to Ian Fleming’s fourth
novel, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, 70 years after its publication in 1956.
In order to create ongoing support for the National Year of Reading,
Ian Fleming Publications will make an annual donation to the National
Literacy Trust.
The action of this
entirely new 007 novella finds James Bond in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in
1954. The British are leaving. It’s six years since Ceylon, land of
the most precious gemstones on earth, was released from the Empire.
The forts and officers’ messes on the island are emptying. But James
Bond is travelling in the opposite direction – joined by his ally and
lover, the diamond smuggler Tiffany Case. 007 is on a mission to track
down one of the most valuable stones in the world. And he doesn’t have
much time to do it. Bond is lured into a deadly game played from the
cool mountains of Kandy to the pitch-black depths of the ocean floor,
finding the stakes are far higher than gemstones alone. To come out
alive, he’s going to have to gamble everything. It’s ALL IN – or
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