Should I eat my words?

Wouldn't you know it?  I was gifted a copy of Jeffery Deaver's Carte Blanche, his new 007 thriller.  Put a book in my hands and I start turning pages.  In this case, they were real pages, although I understand that the book is also doing well as an eBook.  I was curious, I'll admit.  What could Mr. Deaver do with Bond that hasn't been done before?

Pre-existing biases and genre prejudices shouldn't count in the reviewer's world even though, in my case, I'm also a writer with my own way of...