I already accept the link between this Bond and the Fleming character (one and the same).
I don't. To quote Jim (writing in the thread "IFP Announce "Young James Bond" series"):
I do hope they examine how little Jamie Bond frae Glencoe became:-
A bigot
A racist
A sixty a day smoker
A misogynist
A murderer
A SM fantasist
A borderline alcoholic
A programmable killing machine corrupted by the demands of a changeable political artifice
because they might be slightly unusual as children's books. I do hope they do that. I do.
Bet they won't.
And wasn't James Bond thrown out of Eton for (basically) shagging a maid? Is that going to be in there?
Bet it'll be son of Q making super-duper things in "the lab" and good-hearted girls from Carshalton Beeches and whizzo prangs and ginger beer, shaken not stirred. "The scent and smoke and sweat of a wendy house become nauseating past your bedtime"*. Yeech.
No, "SilverFin" is fun, but Fleming's Bond? Nope. Not even close.
*Note that Higson actually wrote this (or something very close to it).