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Octopussy Summary

Octopussy and the Living Daylights is a collection of four short stories by Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, agent "007". James Bond appears in all four stories and is the unifying thread in all four accounts.

Octopussy is a tale about the life of Major Dexter Smythe, who retired from the Royal Marines after World War II in Europe and went to live in Jamaica. When the story opens he...

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Ian Fleming Biographies (4)

Ian Fleming

11,221 words, approx. 38 pages

Biography Essaylan Fleming was the creator of James Bond, the most popular hero of espionage fiction in the late 1950s and the 1960s. Bond, whose name still suggests a certain type of spy-hero—s... Read more

Ian Fleming

2,398 words, approx. 8 pages

The name is Bond, James Bond, that highbrow agent of the British secret service, as suave and stalwart as he is sex-charged, a cold-hearted holder of his government's license to kill. Since his creati... Read more

Ian (Lancaster) Fleming

10,910 words, approx. 37 pages

Ian Fleming was the creator of James Bond, the most popular hero of espionage fiction in the late 1950s and the 1960s. Bond, whose name still suggests a certain type of spy-hero--sophisticated, sexy, ... Read more

Ian (Lancaster) Fleming

3,476 words, approx. 12 pages

Ian Fleming is best known as the creator of James Bond (Agent 007). He was also, however, a book collector who, with the guidance of bookseller Percy Muir, assembled a library of more than one thousan... Read more

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