Yes. All the sequels were.
About the setting: Fleming didn't invent countries, so far as I know, but he probably wouldn't have gotten bogged down in the differences between Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau.
William Boyd, to judge from stuff he's done that's ended up on television, is always disappointing, and his Bond novel may be a botch as well.
That's an easy one, Sierra Leone did those cool spaghetti westerns in the 60's and Guinea-Bissau was the cinematographer on Alain Robebe-Grillet's "Glissements progressifs du plaisir".
It's amazing what people don't know these days.
Well, Fleming didn’t invent countries, but he could invent whole criminal enterprises. :-))
From Amazon:
It’s 1969, and, having just celebrated his forty-fifth birthday, James Bond—British special agent 007—is summoned to headquarters to receive an unusual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West African nation, is being ravaged by a bitter civil war, and M directs Bond to quash the rebels threatening the established regime.
Bond’s arrival in Africa marks the start of a feverish mission to discover the forces behind this brutal war—and he soon realizes the situation is far from straightforward. Piece by piece, Bond uncovers the real cause of the violence in Zanzarim, revealing a twisting conspiracy that extends further than he ever imagined.
Moving from rebel battlefields in West Africa to the closed doors of intelligence offices in London and Washington, this novel is at once a gripping thriller, a tensely plotted story full of memorable characters and breathtaking twists, and a masterful study of power and how it is wielded—a brilliant addition to the James Bond canon.
End Amazon
Sounds a lot like Biafra. It appears that IFP is referencing the year of literary Bond’s birth in the novel “You Only Live Twice”.