For Your Eyes Only
Ian Fleming and James Bond
MacIntyre, Ben
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
A riveting look into the world of James Bond and his creator, published on the centenary of Ian Flemings birth.In For Your Eyes Only, Ben Macintyre reveals where the world of Ian Fleming ends and the world of James Bond begins. Macintyre looks at the actual people on whom the writer based his fictional creationsfriends, colleagues, lovers, and, of course, the notorious villains. Exploring the tradition of spy fiction past and present, with specific attention to the Cold War, Macintyre explains how Bond was based on the realitiesand fantasiesof Flemings life as a wartime spymaster and peacetime bon vivant.Stylishly illustrated, For Your Eyes Only features a collectors dream of gadgets, costumes, props, and storyboards from the filmsDaniel Craigs bloodstained shirt from Casino Royale, the Aston Martin DB5, complete with weaponryas well as memorabilia from Flemings personal archive: his smoking jacket, the manuscript for Casino Royale, his golden typewriter, his guns, and much more.
AUTHOR BIO
Ben Macintyre is a columnist and associate editor at the London Times. He has worked as the newspapers correspondent in New York, Paris, and Washington. He now lives in London with his wife and three children. Agent Zigzag, the true story of a WWI double agent, was a recent Sunday Times bestseller.
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[A] marvelous tributeHe examines, among other things, the probable genesis of Bond's name (an ornithologist) and his spycraft (a number of exotic and intrepid agents, entertainingly described). He looks at the sources for Bond's taste in women (Fleming) and attitude toward them (Fleming) and at the effect of the Bond-of-the-movies on the Bond-of-the-books (significant). Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe
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ISBN: 1596915447
ISBN(13-digit): 9781596915442
Dewey Decimal: 823
Library of Congress: 2009379387
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 224
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