“After my great undercover work”—Nkosi’s arm swept around the room—“I now know I am quite the actor. I will come to London and work in the West End. That’s where the famous theaters are—correct?”
“Well, yes.” Though Bond had not been to one voluntarily in years.
The young man said, “I’m sure I will be quite successful. I’m partial to Shakespeare. David Mamet is quite good too. Without a doubt.”
Bond supposed that, working for a boss like Bheka Jordaan, Nkosi did not get much of a chance to exercise his sense of humor.
—from Jeffery Deaver’s current bestselling James Bond 007 novel Carte Blanche. Deaver, by the way, is not as stage-phobic as O07: “All the World’s a Stage,” a short story in his collection Twisted, credibly chronicles the problems of actors and playwrights (including William Shakespeare) in Elizabethan England.
