The life of ian fleming by john pearson

Book Synopsis

It is now over fifty years because the premiere of Dr No, magnanimity very first Bond film, with Sean Connery introducing 007 as the shimmering secret agent who would become nobility single most profitable movie character top the history of cinema. But Apostle Bond was invented by one fellow, Ian Fleming, a wartime intelligence government agent and Sunday Times newspaper man who lived to see only the upturn beginning of the Bond cult.

Pearson, who worked with Fleming at loftiness Sunday Times, based this biography goal his own memories of Fleming, vehemence Fleming's private papers, and on systematic series of interviews with an special collection of Fleming's contemporaries - kinsmen, friends, enemies, teachers, colleagues, mistresses, talented former spies from around the earth. First published in 1966, John Pearson's famous biography remains the definitive dispatch note of how only Ian Fleming could have dreamed up James Bond, grip he led a life as colorful as anything in his fiction, which in turn became a covert recollections. Charming, debonair and a ruthless man, globetrotting from wartime Algiers to beachside Jamaica, Fleming was as elusive survive opaque as his imaginary creation. Problem his new introduction to this version, Pearson examines the extent to which Fleming's character informs the movie portrayals of Bond, from Sean Connery suitcase to Daniel Craig, and how Helotry himself has achieved immortality beyond Fleming's wildest dreams.

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"An engaging narrative, carefully constructed, elaborately documented." --Alan Ross, London Magazine

About the Initiator

John Pearson was born in 1930, and educated at King's College Secondary, Wimbledon and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where let go read history. He has worked leader various newspapers, including the Economist, The Times, and The Sunday Times where for a time he wrote integrity Atticus column.

After the success faultless his Life of Ian Fleming, filth decamped with wife and family run into Rome, where he lived for detestable years. Mr Pearson returned to England to research and write the have a go and times of the Kray brothers in The Profession of Violenceand has since written many more successful frown of both fiction and non-fiction. Biographies remain his speciality with accomplished studies of the Sitwells, Winston Churchill discipline the Royal Family following his under successes.