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The novelisation to Die Another Day was written by the then current official James Bond writer Raymond Benson, based on the screenplay by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. Like the movie, the novel also featured many references to past Bond movies and novels. It was the fifth consecutive Bond film to be adapted as a novel since Licence to Kill in 1989, rendering the Pierce Brosnan era as the first (and, to date, only) Bond era in which every film was adapted as a novel. It is also (as of 2020) the last Bond film to be novelised.

A few months after its publication, it was announced that Benson was retiring as the official James Bond novelist, and Ian Fleming Publications (owners of the Bond literary franchise) announced that the series was going on hiatus, making Die Another Day the final release in the series that relaunched with Licence Renewed in 1981. A new series of Bond novels by Charlie Higson was launched in 2005, although these books focused on Bond's adventures as a teenager (Young Bond), and a trilogy of books by Kate Westbrook, The Moneypenny Diaries, launched around the same time.

As a result, Die Another Day, the novel, was the final literary adventure featuring Bond as originally conceived by Ian Fleming, until the publisher released another "adult Bond" novel to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Fleming's birth in 2008, Devil May Care.

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