James Bond continues to live.

Long after his creator Ian Fleming's death, through Sean Connery, Roger Moore, et al, up to Daniel Craig, James Bond is still with us. No villain who wants to rule the world has been able to get rid of super spy 007. Even Q's gadgets haven't killed him.

And he continues to live on the page as well as on the screen.

William Boyd, the author of Restless, A Good Man in Africa, and Any Human Heart, is the third author who has been tapped by the Ian Fleming estate to continue the James Bond adventures.

Sebastian Faulks and Jeffrey Deaver were the first two authors to bring their vision of James Bond to the novels.

Boyd said he was a lifelong fan of the man with the license to kill, having been introduced to James Bond by his father. His
favorite in the series is From Russia with Love, he said.

According to newspaper and website reports, Boyd said he plans to set the novel in 1969, returning to ""classic Bond."" Boyd's 007 novel is slated to be published in the fall of 2013, which will be 60 years after the publication of the first Bond novel, Casino Royale.

Fleming died in 1964 shortly after the early Bond films brought his character to worldwide fame. He wrote 14 Bond novels and short story collections and penned the children's classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Boyd's novel is slated to be published in Britain by Jonathan Cape, which is Ian Fleming's original publisher and an imprint of Vintage Publishing, and simultaneously by HarperCollins Publishers in the US and Canada.