10. Young Bond: Silverfin
An alternative suggestion for future Bond adaptations, and perhaps one that would suit TV release rather than the big screen, Charlie Higson's Young Bond series is never-the-less a rich source, and one featuring a number of enticing stories. Like Sebastian Faulks and at the behest of the Fleming estate, Higson chose to ignore the post-Fleming Bond books, fitting his Bond stories in with the Fleming chronology and setting them in the 1930s. The first in the Young Bond series, which stretched to five books up to 2009, Silverfin focuses on Bond during his early years at Eton, and his discovery of a plot to create a super soldier serum whose testing phases had killed two people, by Lord Hellebore - the father of an Eton bully called George. Even more importantly than the story, which in itself is entertaining and worthy of adaptation, author Higson sought to create an authentic childhood for Bond, first by using elements of Bond's obituary in You Only Live Twice and details of Fleming's childhoods, and also by preforming character traits that would later be seen in the "adult" series. Higson uses Silverfin and the other Young Bond series to create the origins of some of Bond's most famous idiosyncracies, including his love of cars and fine wine.