DUBAI: British super spy James Bond will head to the glitzy gulf emirate of Dubai in a new book titled “Carte Blanche,” local papers said Tuesday. “When I thought about the setting for the new book, I thought immediately about Dubai,” the book's author, Jeffery Deaver, told reporters in Dubai Monday, according to The National newspaper. “Not only is it an incredibly fun, wonderful and exhilarating place, but it retains at its heart an exotic core,” said Deaver. “I travel a great deal ... There are not as many exotic locations as there used to be,” Gulf News, quoted Deaver as saying. Neither newspaper described details of the novel's plot, but a Dubai government press release said Bond would head to the emirate in pursuit of a criminal. Deaver said Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashed Al-Maktoum “had expressed a great interest in the book,” according to The National. Plans for a film version of the novel “have already been raised,” the newspaper said. Deaver is the latest in a series of authors who have continued the Bond books, which were turned into a series of hit films, since Bond creator Ian Fleming died in 1964. “Carte Blanche” is due out in May. – Agence France