Jeffery Deaver tried that in "Carte Blanche", the last James Bond book. It sucked.
I have all of the Fleming and Gardner books, the Kingsley Amis one, and almost all of the Raymond Benson James Bond books.
Jeffery Deaver? When I saw he was taking over the franchise, I thought WTF? Don't know if I want to read "Carte Blanche" now.
You need an Eric van Lustbader, Jim DeFelice, or better yet Ted Bell to write those books.
Maybe the fencing scene from "Die Another Day" was his inspiration for it, though.