EBOOK For Your Eyes Only
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Ian Fleming and James Bond
&'I am going to write the spy story to end all spy stories&' One morning in February 1952, a journalist called Ian Fleming sat down at his desk and set about creating a fictional secret agent. James Bond was born and would go on to become one of the most successful, enduring and lucrative creations in literature. But Bond&'s world of glamour and romance, gadgets and cocktails, espionage and villainy wasn&'t entirely drawn from imagination: Fleming&'s background and his experiences as an intelligence officer during the Second World War were all formative parts in the creation of the world&'s most famous spy. Packed with astonishing detail and written in Macintyre&'s inimitable style, For Your Eyes Only is the most enlightening, enlivening book on the creator of the spy who not only lived twice, but proved to be immortal.
&'I am going to write the spy story to end all spy stories&' One morning in February 1952, a journalist called Ian Fleming sat down at his desk and set about creating a fictional secret agent. James Bond was born and would go on to become one of the most successful, enduring and lucrative creations in literature. But Bond&'s world of glamour and romance, gadgets and cocktails, espionage and villainy wasn&'t entirely drawn from imagination: Fleming&'s background and his experiences as an intelligence officer during the Second World War were all formative parts in the creation of the world&'s most famous spy. Packed with astonishing detail and written in Macintyre&'s inimitable style, For Your Eyes Only is the most enlightening, enlivening book on the creator of the spy who not only lived twice, but proved to be immortal.