 Die Another Day was written into a novel by the then @-@ current official James Bond writer , Raymond Benson , based on the screenplay by Neal <unk> and Robert Wade . Fan reaction to it was above average . After its publication Benson retired as the official James Bond novelist and a new series featuring the secret agent 's adventures as a teenager , by Charlie <unk> , was launched in 2005 . As the <unk> was published after Benson 's final original <unk> novel , The Man with the Red <unk> , it was the final literary work featuring Bond as originally conceived by Ian Fleming until the publication of Devil May Care by Sebastian <unk> in 2008 to mark the 100th anniversary of Fleming 's birth . 
