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Ian Fleming

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James Bond, agent 007 with Her Majesty's Secret Service, is sent to a health clinic to recover from over-drinking and over-smoking. During his stay, he tangles with a criminal who, unbeknownst to Bond, is involved in an international blackmail scheme. Soon, Bond is whisked off to the Bahamas in search of SPECTRE, a criminal organization threatening to explode stolen nuclear bombs. Bond finally foils these modern-day pirates in a spectacular underwater battle...

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Ian Fleming Biographies (4)

Ian Fleming

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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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