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Anthony Horowitz
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Anthony Horowitz, OBE is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His work for young adult readers includes The Diamond Brothers series, the Alex Rider series and his work for adults includes the novel and play Mindgame, and two Sherlock Holmes novels The House of Silk and Moriarty. He is the most recent author chosen to write a James Bond novel by the Ian Fleming estate and he has also written for television, contributing scripts to ITVs Agatha Christies Poirot and Midsomer Murders. He was the creator and writer of the ITV series Foyles War, Collision, Horowitz was born in Stanmore, Middlesex, into a wealthy Jewish family, and in his early years lived an upper-middle class lifestyle. As an overweight and unhappy child, Horowitz enjoyed reading books from his fathers library, at the age of 8, Horowitz was sent to Orley Farm, a boarding preparatory school in Harrow, Middlesex. There, he entertained his peers by telling them the stories he had read, Horowitz described his time in the school as a brutal experience, recalling that he was often beaten by the headmaster. At age 13 he went on to Rugby School, a school in Rugby, Warwickshire. Horowitzs mother introduced him to Frankenstein and Dracula and she also gave him a human skull for his 13th birthday. Horowitz said in an interview that it him to get to the end of each story since he will soon look like the skull. From the age of 8, Horowitz knew he wanted to be a writer and he graduated from the University of York with a lower second class degree in English literature and art history in 1977, where he was in Vanbrugh College. In at least one interview, Horowitz claims to believe that H. P. Lovecraft based his fictional Necronomicon on a real text, Horowitzs father was associated with some of the politicians in the circle of prime minister Harold Wilson, including Eric Miller. Facing bankruptcy, he moved his assets into Swiss numbered bank accounts and he died from cancer when his son Anthony was 22, and the family was never able to track down the missing money despite years of trying. Horowitz now lives in Central London with his wife Jill Green, Green produced Foyles War, the series Horowitz wrote for ITV. He credits his family with much of his success in writing, as he says they help him with ideas and he is a patron of child protection charity Kidscape. Anthony Horowitzs first book, The Sinister Secret of Frederick K Bower, was an adventure for children, published in 1979. In 1981 his second novel, Misha, the Magician and the Mysterious Amulet was published, in 1983 the first of the Pentagram series, The Devils Door-Bell, was released. This story saw Martin Hopkins battling an ancient evil that threatened the whole world, only three of four remaining stories in the series were ever written, The Night of the Scorpion, The Silver Citadel and Day of the Dragon. In 1985 he released Myths and Legends, a collection of tales from around the world
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Orion Publishing
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Orion Publishing Group Ltd. is a UK-based book publisher. It is owned by Hachette Livre, the groups imprints include, Allen & Unwin Cassell Military Paperbacks Cassells National Library J. M. Books distributed through Littlehampton book services, list of largest UK book publishers UK childrens book publishers Orionbooks. co. uk
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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Ian Fleming
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Ian Lancaster Fleming was an English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst and, briefly, the universities of Munich and Geneva and his wartime service and his career as a journalist provided much of the background, detail and depth of the James Bond novels. Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1952 and it was a success, with three print runs being commissioned to cope with the demand. Eleven Bond novels and two short-story collections followed between 1953 and 1966, the novels revolved around James Bond, an officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. Bond was also known by his number,007, and was a commander in the Royal Naval Reserve. The Bond stories rank among the series of fictional books of all time. Fleming also wrote the childrens story Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang and two works of non-fiction, in 2008, The Times ranked Fleming 14th on its list of The 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Fleming was married to Ann Charteris, who was divorced from the second Viscount Rothermere owing to her affair with the author, Fleming and Charteris had a son, Caspar. Fleming was a smoker and drinker for most of his life. Two of his James Bond books were published posthumously, other writers have since produced Bond novels, Flemings creation has appeared in film twenty-six times, portrayed by seven actors. Ian Fleming was born on 28 May 1908, at 27 Green Street in the wealthy London district of Mayfair and his mother was Evelyn St Croix Rose, and his father was Valentine Fleming, the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910. As an infant he lived, with his family, at Braziers Park in Oxfordshire. Fleming was the grandson of the Scottish financier Robert Fleming, who founded the Scottish American Investment Trust, in 1914, with the start of the First World War, Valentine joined C Squadron, Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars, and rose to the rank of major. He was killed by German shelling on the Western Front on 20 May 1917, because the family owned an estate at Arnisdale, Valentines death was commemorated on the Glenelg War Memorial. Flemings elder brother Peter became a writer and married actress Celia Johnson. Fleming also had two brothers, Michael and Richard, and a younger maternal half-sister born out of wedlock, cellist Amaryllis Fleming. Amaryllis was conceived during an affair between John and Evelyn that started in 1923, some six years after the death of Valentine
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Space Race
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The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, for supremacy in spaceflight capability. The technological superiority required for such supremacy was seen as necessary for national security, the Space Race spawned pioneering efforts to launch artificial satellites, unmanned space probes of the Moon, Venus, and Mars, and human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and to the Moon. The Soviet Union beat the US to this, with the October 4,1957 orbiting of Sputnik 1, the race peaked with the July 20,1969 US landing of the first humans on the Moon with Apollo 11. The USSR tried but failed manned lunar missions, and eventually cancelled them, the Space Race has left a legacy of Earth communications and weather satellites, and continuing human space presence on the International Space Station. It has also sparked increases in spending on education and research and development, the origins of the Space Race can be traced to Germany, beginning in the 1930s and continuing during World War II when Nazi Germany researched and built operational ballistic missiles. Wernher von Braun, a young engineering prodigy, was recruited by Becker and Dornberger to join their secret army program at Kummersdorf-West in 1932, von Braun dreamed of conquering outer space with rockets, and did not initially see the military value in missile technology. They led the team built the Aggregate-4 rocket, which became the first vehicle to reach outer space during its test flight program in 1942 and 1943. By 1943, Germany began mass-producing the A-4 as the Vergeltungswaffe 2 and its supersonic speed meant there was no defense against it, and radar detection provided little warning. Germany used the weapon to bombard southern England and parts of Allied-liberated western Europe from 1944 until 1945, after the war, the V-2 became the basis of early American and Soviet rocket designs. The United States also acquired a number of complete V2 rockets. The German rocket center in Peenemünde was located in the part of Germany. On Stalins orders, the Soviet Union sent its best rocket engineers to this region to see what they could salvage for future weapons systems, the Soviet rocket engineers were led by Sergei Korolev. He had been involved in clubs and early Soviet rocket design in the 1930s. After the war, he became the USSRs chief rocket and spacecraft engineer and his identity was kept a state secret throughout the Cold War, and he was identified publicly only as the Chief Designer. In the West, his name was officially revealed when he died in 1966. They were not allowed to participate in final Soviet missile design, with their help, particularly Helmut Gröttrups group, Korolev reverse-engineered the A-4 and built his own version of the rocket, the R-1, in 1948. Later, he developed his own designs, though many of these designs were influenced by the Gröttrup Groups G4-R10 design from 1949. The Germans were eventually repatriated in 1951–53 and he also started developing liquid-fueled rockets in 1921, yet he had not been taken seriously by the public
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Goldfinger (novel)
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Goldfinger is the seventh novel in Ian Flemings James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 23 March 1959. Goldfinger originally bore the title The Richest Man in the World and was written in January and February 1958. As well as establishing the background to the operation, Bond uncovers a much larger plot. Fleming developed the James Bond character more in Goldfinger than in the six novels, presenting him as a more complex individual. The Saint George theme is echoed by the fact that it is a British agent sorting out an American problem, upon learning of the use of his name, Goldfinger threatened to sue over the use of the name, before the matter was settled out of court. Fleming had based the character on American gold tycoon Charles W. Engelhard. Most recently, Goldfinger was adapted for BBC Radio with Toby Stephens as Bond, Fleming structured the novel in three sections—Happenstance, Coincidence and Enemy action—which was how Goldfinger described Bonds three seemingly coincidental meetings with him. Bond quickly realises that Goldfinger is indeed cheating with the aid of his assistant, Jill Masterton. Bond blackmails Goldfinger into admitting it and paying back DuPonts lost money, Bond visits the Bank of England for a briefing with Colonel Smithers on the methods of gold smuggling. Coincidence Bond contrives to meet and have a round of golf with Goldfinger, Goldfinger attempts to win the match by cheating. He is subsequently invited back to Goldfingers mansion near Reculver where he narrowly escapes being caught on camera looking over the house, Goldfinger introduces Bond to his factotum, a Korean named Oddjob. Issued by MI6 with an Aston Martin DB Mark III, Bond trails Goldfinger as he takes his vintage Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost via air ferry to Switzerland, driven by Oddjob. Bond manages to trace Goldfinger to a warehouse in Geneva where he finds that the armour of Goldfingers car is actually white-gold, cast into panels at his Kent refinery. When the car reaches Goldfingers factory in Switzerland, he recasts the gold from the panels into aircraft seats and fits them to the Mecca Charter Airline. The gold is sold in India at a vast profit. Bond foils an attempt on Goldfinger by Jill Mastertons sister, Tilly, to avenge Jills death at Goldfingers hands, he had painted her body with gold paint. Bond and Tilly attempt to escape when the alarm is raised, Enemy action Bond is tortured by Oddjob when he refuses to confess his role in trailing Goldfinger. In a desperate attempt to survive being cut in two by a saw, Bond offers to work for Goldfinger, a ruse that Goldfinger initially refuses
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Colonel Sun
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Colonel Sun is a novel by Kingsley Amis published by Jonathan Cape on 28 March 1968 under the pseudonym Robert Markham. Colonel Sun is the first James Bond continuation novel published after Ian Flemings 1964 death, before writing the novel, Amis wrote two other Bond related works, the literary study The James Bond Dossier and the humorous The Book of Bond. Colonel Sun centres on the fictional British Secret Service operative James Bond and his mission to track down the kidnappers of M, during the mission he discovers a communist Chinese plot to cause an international incident. Bond, assisted by a Greek spy working for the Russians, finds M on a small Aegean island, rescues him, Amis drew upon a holiday he had taken in the Greek islands to create a realistic Greek setting and characters. He emphasised political intrigue in the more than Fleming had done in the canonical Bond novels. Despite keeping a format and structure similar to Flemings Bond novels, Colonel Sun was serialised in the Daily Express newspaper in 1968 and adapted as a comic strip in the same newspaper in 1969–1970. Chapter 19 was adapted for the scene in Spectre. Kidnappers violently take the Secret Service chief M from his house and almost capture James Bond, intent on rescuing M, Bond follows the clues to Vrakonisi, one of the Aegean Islands. In the process, Bond discovers the complex military-political plans of Colonel Sun of the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army, Sun had been sent to sabotage a Middle East détente conference which the Soviet Union is hosting. He intends to attack the conference venue and use M and Bonds bodies to blame Great Britain for the disaster, Bond meets Soviet agents in Athens and they realise that not only is a third country behind the kidnap, but that there is a traitor in the organisation. An attack on the Soviet headquarters kills all the agents except Ariadne Alexandrou, as he is dying, the Soviet leader encourages Bond and Ariadne to work together to prevent an international incident. Ariadne persuades Litsas, a former Second World War resistance fighter and friend of her father, to help them by telling him about the involvement in the plot of former Nazi. Trying to find M and Colonel Sun, Bond is nearly captured by the Russians, Sun tortures him brutally, until one of the girls at the house is ordered by Sun to caress Bond fondly. In the process she cuts one of Bonds hands free and provides him with a knife and she tells Sun that Bond is dead, when examined Bond stabs Sun. He then frees other captives who help Bond stop Von Richter, however Sun survives the stab wound and kills several of the other escapees. Bond tracks down Sun and kills him in the confrontation, the Soviets thank Bond for saving their conference, offering him a medal for his work, which he politely turns down. The main character of the novel is James Bond, continuation Bond author Raymond Benson described Amiss Bond as a humourless interpretation of the character that Fleming used in his earlier novels. Benson describes this personality as a continuation of the Bond developed in the final three Fleming novels
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Devil May Care (Faulks novel)
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Devil May Care is a James Bond continuation novel written by Sebastian Faulks. It was published in the UK by Penguin Books on 28 May 2008, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ian Fleming, the story centres on Bonds investigation into Dr Julius Gorner, a megalomaniac chemist with a deep-seated hatred of England. He ignored the influences of the other Bond continuation authors and the films, Faulks stated that although he enjoyed writing the book, he would write no more Bond novels. The story is set in 1967, Bond is instructed by his superior, M, to investigate a man named Dr Julius Gorner, and his bodyguard, Chagrin. Bond is warned that his performance will be monitored and that a new 00 agent is waiting in the wings if his actions go awry, Bond flies to Imperial Iran to investigate. Gorner owns factories and produces legitimate pharmaceuticals, however MI6 suspects he has other motives, the attack is to be made using a stolen British airliner, earlier hijacked over Iraqi airspace, and an ekranoplan. Bond is assisted in his investigation by Scarlett Papava, Darius Alizadeh, JD Silver, Bond would be identified as British upon its destruction, increasing the evidence against the British Government. Bond survives the predicted Afghan attack and plots an escape attempt, in the morning he is taken aboard the aeroplane. Before the airliner can bomb the Soviets, with the aid of the pilot and Scarlett, Bond regains control of the aeroplane. Meanwhile, Felix Leiter and Darius inform agent Silver of the method of attack. Silver shows himself to be an agent by failing to call in an airstrike against the Ekranoplan and by attempting to kill Leiter. In the shoot-out Darius successfully calls in the airstrike at the cost of his own life and Leiter survives only thanks to the arrival of Hamid. The Ekranoplan is destroyed by RAF Vulcan bombers before it reaches its target, Bond and Scarlett escape through Russia but are pursued by Chagrin, whom Bond finally kills on a train. Later Gorner meets him on a boat and tries to him, but Bond pushes him overboard. She turns out to be Scarlett Papava, Scarlett discloses that the story of her twin sister was a ploy to convince Bond to enable her to join the mission. Papava feared that if Bond knew she was a potential 00 agent, with Bond returning to active duty, Scarlett moves off to her own operations as a full 00 agent. The central character of the novel is James Bond, the fictional MI6 agent created by Ian Fleming, Faulks saw Bond as a man in constant peril, This Bond, this solitary hero with his soft shoes and single under-powered weapon, was a man in dreadful danger. On another occasion he returned to the theme, describing the character as a very vulnerable man, with his suit and soft shoes
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Sebastian Faulks
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Sebastian Charles Faulks CBE is a British novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He is best known for his novels set in France – The Girl at the Lion dOr, Birdsong. He has also published novels with a setting, most recently A Week in December. Wodehouses Jeeves series, Jeeves and the Wedding Bells and he is a team captain on BBC Radio 4 literary quiz The Write Stuff. Faulks was born on 20 April 1953 in Donnington, Berkshire to Peter Faulks and his father was a decorated soldier, who later became a solicitor and judge. His brother Edward Faulks, Baron Faulks QC, a barrister and he was educated at Elstree School, Reading and went on to Wellington College, Berkshire. He read English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, of which he was made an Honorary Fellow in 2007, whilst at Cambridge he participated in University Challenge, in which Emmanuel College lost in the opening round. Faulks commented that his team were most probably hampered by a trip to the pub before the show, after graduating, Faulks lived in France for a year. When he returned to England he worked as a teacher at a school in Camden Town. Faulks first novel, A Trick of the Light, was published in 1984 and he continued to work as a journalist, becoming the first literary editor of The Independent in 1986. He became deputy editor of the Independent on Sunday in 1989, in the year he published The Girl at the Lion dOr. In 1991 he left The Independent, and wrote for other papers. Following the success of Birdsong, Faulks quit journalism to write full-time and he has since published eight novels, the most recent being A Week in December and A Possible Life. Faulks was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1993, Faulks appears regularly on British TV and radio. He has been a team captain on BBC Radio 4s literary quiz The Write Stuff since 1998. Faulks can catch, and caricature, another writers fingerprints and foibles with a precision that only a deep love of writing can teach. In 2011 Faulks presented a four-part BBC Two series called Faulks on Fiction, looking at the British novel and he also wrote a series tie-in book of the same name. They have two sons, William and Arthur, born 1990 and 1996 respectively, and one daughter, Holly, Faulks is a fan of West Ham United football club
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Solo (Boyd novel)
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Solo is a James Bond continuation novel written by William Boyd. It was published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 26 September 2013 in hardback, e-book and audio editions, the novel is set in 1969—six years after Flemings last work was set—and Bond is 45 years old. Boyd was raised in Nigeria and used his experiences during the war to provide the location for the novel. He has been a Bond fan since his youth and, in preparation for writing the novel he read all the Bond stories in chronological order and it took 18 months to write the novel, with some friction between Boyd and the Fleming estate over the portrayal of Bond. Solo received mixed reviews, with a number of pointing to the convoluted. Other critics saw the book as being equal with, or superior to, the book sold well, appearing in the top ten-selling book lists in the UK. On his arrival in Zanzarim, Bond is aided by an agent who introduces herself as Efua Blessing Ogilvy-Grant. The two travel from the city to the rebel enclave, but are attacked shortly before reaching their destination and taken captive by Kobus Breed. The group are attacked on their journey and Ogilvy-Grant goes missing in the confusion. Bond proceeds to the enclave, where he is met by Breed, Bond meets Solomon Adeka and realises that the leader will shortly die of cancer, his mission to kill Adeka is needless. Bond sees supply flights of arms and equipment coming into the country, all funded by billionaire Hulbert Linck, the aeroplanes all show the AfriKIN name on the fuselage. When Adeka dies a few later, Bond tries to leave the country on one of the supply flights, but is confronted by Breed and Blessing. Bond is saved by a journalist he befriended and returns to the UK, after discharging himself, he decides to go on a revenge mission against Breed and Ogilvy-Grant. Discovering AfriKIN has relocated to Washington DC, Bond travels to the US, while conducting surveillance against the company, Bond is briefly detained by Brigham Leiter—nephew of Felix—of the CIA, who explains Ogilvy-Grant also works for the CIA. Bond meets Ogilvy-Grant, who assures him that she shot to him in order that Breed would not shoot them both. The following day Bond watches a mercy flight bringing in maimed and injured Zanzarimi children, he dines alone, Bond attacks the house where Breed is staying with the children, and incapacitates the mercenary, leaving him for dead. Linck was killed by the CIA during the raid on the house, the central character of the novel is James Bond, the fictional MI6 agent created by Ian Fleming. The author, William Boyd modelled his version of the character on Flemings version, Solo is set in 1969—six years after Flemings last work was set—and the novel begins with Bond celebrating his 45th birthday
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William Boyd (writer)
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William Boyd, CBE is a Scottish novelist and screenwriter. Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana to Scottish parents, both from Fife, and has two younger sisters. A. in English & Philosophy, and finally Jesus College, Oxford and his father died of a rare disease when Boyd was 26. Between 1980 and 1983 he was a lecturer in English at St Hildas College, Oxford and he was also the New Statesmans television critic between 1981 and 1983. Boyd is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de lOrdre des Arts et des Lettres. He has been presented with honorary Doctorates in Literature from the universities of St. Andrews, Stirling, Glasgow and Dundee and is a fellow of Jesus College. He met his wife Susan, an editor and now a screenwriter. He has a house in Chelsea, London and a farmhouse and he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 for services to literature. In August 2014 Boyd was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to Septembers referendum on that issue, Boyd is a member of the Chelsea Arts Club. Although his novels have been short-listed for major prizes, he has never had the same publicity as his contemporaries, Boyd was selected in 1983 as one of the 20 Best of Young British Novelists in a promotion run by Granta magazine and the Book Marketing Council. Boyd published Waiting for Sunrise, A Novel in early 2012, following Solo in 2013 he published Sweet Caress in 2015, his fourth novel written from a womans viewpoint. On 11 April 2012 it was announced that Boyd was to write the next James Bond novel, the book, Solo, is set in 1969, it was published in the UK by Jonathan Cape in September 2013. Boyd used Bond creator Ian Fleming as a character in his novel Any Human Heart, Fleming recruits the books protagonist, Logan Mountstuart, to naval intelligence during World War Two. Boyd has also worked with three of the actors who have portrayed Bond in the series, Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan. As a screenwriter Boyd has written a number of feature film and he was one of a number of writers who worked on Chaplin. It caused quite a stir once the truth was revealed, the name Nat Tate is derived from the names of the two leading British art galleries, the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery. Boyd, who paints, made a drawing artwork under the pseudonym of Nat Tate. Nat Tate also appears in Any Human Heart, also by Boyd, Boyd adapted two Anton Chekhov short stories—A Visit to Friends and My Life —to create the play Longing. The play, directed by Nina Raine, stars Jonathan Bailey, Tamsin Greig, Natasha Little, Eve Ponsonby, John Sessions, previews began 28 February 2013, press night was 7 March 2013
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Bond girl
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A Bond girl is a character who is a love interest and/or female sidekick of James Bond in a novel, film, or video game. There is no set rule on what kind of person a Bond girl will be or what role she will play and she may be an ally or an enemy of Bond, pivotal to the mission or simply eye candy. However, it has argued that Ms pivotal role in the plot of Skyfall qualifies her as a Bond girl or Bond woman. Nearly all of Ian Flemings Bond novels and short stories include one or more characters who can be said to qualify as Bond girls. While Flemings Bond girls have some traits, they also have a great many characteristics in common. One of these is age, The typical Bond girl is in her early to mid-twenties, roughly ten years younger than Bond, examples include Solitaire, Tatiana Romanova, Vivienne Viv Michel, and Kissy Suzuki. The youngest Bond girl may be Gala Brand, she is named for the cruiser in which her father is serving at the time of her birth, Bonds youngest sexual partner in the books is Mariko Ichiban, an 18-year-old masseuse in You Only Live Twice. The eldest Bond girls are Pussy Galore, whom Bond speculates is in her early 30s, Bond girls conform to a fairly well-defined standard of beauty. They possess splendid figures and tend to dress in a masculine, assertive fashion, wear little jewellery—and that in a masculine cut—wide leather belts. Nearly all of them are white, they often sport light though noticeable suntans and their hair may be any colour, though they typically wear it in a natural or casual cut that falls heavily to their shoulders. Their features, especially their eyes and mouths, are widely spaced. Even Domino, however, wears rather masculine jewellery, the best-known characteristic of Bond girls apart from their uniform beauty is their pattern of sexually suggestive names, such as Pussy Galore. Names with less obvious meanings are sometimes explained in the novels, Flemings penchant for double-entendre names began with the first Bond novel Casino Royale. Several Bond girls, however, have normal names, most Bond girls are apparently sexually experienced by the time they meet Bond. Tiffany Case was gang-raped as a teenager, Honey Ryder, too, was beaten, Pussy Galore was sexually abused at age 12 by her uncle. While there is no such clear-cut trauma in Solitaires early life, there are suggestions that she, too, avoids men because of their unwanted sexual advances in her past. Kissy Suzuki reports to Bond that during her career in Hollywood, when she was 17, They thought that because I am Japanese I am some sort of an animal. The cliché reaches its most extreme level in Goldfinger, in this novel Pussy Galore is portrayed as a practising lesbian when she first meets Bond, but at the end of the novel she sleeps with him
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Pussy Galore
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Pussy Galore is a fictional character in the 1959 Ian Fleming James Bond novel Goldfinger and the 1964 film of the same name. In the film, she is played by Honor Blackman, the character returns in the 2015 Bond continuation novel Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz, set in the 1950s two weeks after the events of Goldfinger. Blanche Blackwell, a Jamaican of Anglo-Jewish descent, is thought to have been the love of Flemings later life, in Flemings 1959 novel Goldfinger, Pussy Galore is the only woman in the United States known to be running an organised crime gang. Initially trapeze artists, her group of performing catwomen, Pussy Galore and her Abrocats, is unsuccessful and her group evolves into an all-lesbian organisation, based in Harlem, known as the Cement Mixers. In the novel, she has hair, pale skin. She is in her thirties, her voice low and attractive, Pussy tells Bond that she became a lesbian after she was sexually abused by her uncle at the age of 12. S. Bullion Depository there and steal one billion dollars in bullion from it. Goldfinger chooses the Cement Mixers because he needs a group of women to impersonate the nurses in fake emergency medical teams he plans to send into the poison-stricken Fort Knox. After Bond and Felix Leiter foil Grand Slam, Galore runs into Bond while impersonating a stewardess on Goldfingers hijacked escape flight to the Soviet Union. Bond, having previously been drugged by a vaccination, has been kidnapped and transported onto the plane to join Goldfinger. However, Bond punctures one of the windows with a knife, then tackles Goldfinger. Bond then forces the crew of the airplane to reverse course, when the gold-heavy craft runs out of fuel, and the crew must ditch it in the ocean, Bond and Pussy are the only ones who manage to escape onto a life raft. It is hinted at the end of the novel that Pussy is sent to prison, as she says to Bond and her original band of Amazonian catwomen appear as characters in the film, but as small-aircraft pilots rather than trapeze artists. Pussy returns in the 2015 Bond continuation novel Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz, the novel contains material written, but previously unreleased, by Fleming. In the film, Pussy is first seen when Bond wakes up in Goldfingers private jet, Pussy Galore, My name is Pussy Galore. James Bond, I must be dreaming and she is the leader of Pussy Galores Flying Circus, a group of women aviators connected with Goldfingers Operation Grand Slam. In a later scene, Pussy uses judo to attack Bond after she catches him eavesdropping on Goldfingers plan, however, Bond corners Galore in a barn and forcibly holds her down and kisses her. The film then shows a change in personality where she seems to welcome the earlier assault
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Audiobook
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An audiobook is a recording of a text being read. A reading of the text is noted as unabridged, while readings of a reduced version. Spoken audio has been available in schools and public libraries and to an extent in music shops since the 1930s. Many spoken word albums were made prior to the age of videocassettes, DVDs, compact discs and it was not until the 1980s that the medium began to attract book retailers, and then book retailers started displaying audiobooks on bookshelves rather than in separate displays. In 1994, the Audio Publishers Association established the term audiobook as the industry standard, Spoken word recordings first became possible with the invention of the phonograph by Thomas Edison in 1877. Phonographic books were one of the original applications envisioned by Edison which would speak to people without effort on their part. The initial words spoken into the phonograph were Edisons recital of Mary Had a Little Lamb, one early listener complained that he would need a wheelbarrow to carry around talking books recorded on discs with such limited storage capacity. By the 1930s close-grooved records increased to 20 minutes making possible longer narrative, the first test recordings in 1932 included a chapter from Helen Kellers Midstream and Edgar Allan Poes The Raven. The organization received approval for exemption from copyright and free postal distribution of talking books. M. Delafield, Cora Jarrett, Rudyard Kipling, John Masefield, Macdonald mobilized the women of the Auxiliary under the motto Education is a right, not a privilege. In 1952, Macdonald established recording studios in seven cities across the United States. Caedmon Records was a pioneer in the business, it was the first company dedicated to selling spoken work recordings to the public and has been called the seed of the audiobook industry. Caedmon was formed in New York in 1952 by college graduates Barbara Holdridge and their first release was a collection of poems by Dylan Thomas as read by the author. The original 1952 recording was a selection for the 2008 United States National Recording Registry, Listening Library was also a pioneering company, it was one of the first to distribute childrens audiobooks to schools, libraries and other special markets, including VA hospitals. It was founded by Anthony Ditlow and his wife in 1955 in their Red Bank, New Jersey home, like Caedemon, Listening Library and Spoken Arts benefited from the new technology of LPs, but also increased governmental funding for schools and libraries beginning in the 1950s and 60s. Cassette tapes were invented in 1963 and a few libraries, such as the Library of Congress, however, during the 1970s, a number of technological innovations allowed the cassette tape wider usage in libraries and also spawned the creation of new commercial audiobook market. In the early 1970s, instructional recordings were among the first commercial products sold on cassette, there were 8 companies distributing materials on cassette with titles such as Managing and Selling Companies and Executive Seminar in Sound on a series of 60-minute cassettes. His company, the Maryland-based Recorded Books, followed the model of Books on Tape but with higher quality studio recordings, Recorded Books and Chivers Audio Books were the first to develop integrated production teams and to work with professional actors
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David Oyelowo
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David Oyetokunbo Oyelowo, OBE is a English actor and producer. He has played supporting roles in the films Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Middle of Nowhere, Lincoln, on television, he played MI5 officer Danny Hunter in the British series Spooks. Perhaps his highest-profile role to date was as Martin Luther King Jr. in the American biographical drama film Selma, Oyelowo was born in Oxford, England, to Nigerian parents of Yoruba ethnicity. He was raised as a Baptist and he grew up in Tooting Bec until he was six, when his family moved to Lagos, Nigeria, where his father Stephen worked for the national airline and mother for a railway company. David attended a boarding school. They returned to London when Oyelowo was fourteen, settling in Islington, while enrolled in theatre studies at City and Islington College, his teacher suggested that he become an actor. Oyelowo enrolled for a year in an art course, at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He finished his training in 1998. He also spent time with the National Youth Theatre, in 2005, he appeared in a production of Prometheus Bound, which was revived in New York City in 2007. He played the role in Othello in 2016 at the New York Theatre Workshop with Daniel Craig as Iago. Oyelowo is best known for playing MI5 officer Danny Hunter in the British TV drama series Spooks from 2002 to 2004 and he had before that appeared in Tomorrow La Scala, Maisie Raine and Brothers and Sisters. Soon after the end of his time on Spooks Oyelowo made a appearance in the 2005 Christmas special of As Time Goes By. Other cameos have included Mayo and the TV film Sweet Nothing in My Ear, while he has played recurring or main characters in Five Days, in December 2009 he played the leading role of Gilbert in the BBC TV adaptation of Andrea Levys novel Small Island. In March 2010 he played the part of Keme Tobodo in the BBCs drama series Blood and he starred in the HBO original film Nightingale. He appeared as Olaudah Equiano in Grace Unshackled – The Olaudah Equiano Story and this was first broadcast on BBC7 on 8 April 2007, with his wife Jessica Oyelowo as Mrs. Equiano. In 2007, Oyelowo was the reader for John le Carrés The Mission Song, audioFile magazine stated, Think of David Oyelowo as a single musician playing all the instruments in a symphony. That is essentially what he manages in this performance of John le Carrés suspense novel. Can it really have only one man in the narrators recording booth
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BBC Radio 4
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BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967, the station controller is Gwyneth Williams, and the station is part of BBC Radio and the BBC Radio department. The station is broadcast from the BBCs headquarters at Broadcasting House and it is also available through Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media and on the Internet. It is notable for its news bulletins and programmes such as Today and The World at One, BBC Radio 4 is the second most popular British domestic radio station by total hours, after Radio 2 – and the most popular in London and the South of England. It recorded its highest audience, of 11 million listeners, in May 2011 and was UK Radio Station of the Year at the 2003,2004 and 2008 Sony Radio Academy Awards and it also won a Peabody Award in 2002 for File On 4, Export Controls. Costing £71.4 million, it is the BBCs most expensive national radio network and is considered by many to be its flagship. There is no comparable British commercial network, Channel 4 abandoned plans to launch its own speech-based digital radio station in October 2008 as part of a £100m cost cutting review, in 2010 Gwyneth Williams replaced Mark Damazer as Radio 4 controller. Damazer became Master of St Peters College, Oxford, music and sport are the only fields that largely fall outside the stations remit. It broadcasts occasional concerts, and documentaries related to forms of both popular and classical music, and the long-running music-based Desert Island Discs. As a result, for around 70 days a year listeners have to rely on FM broadcasts or increasingly DAB for mainstream Radio 4 broadcasts – the number relying solely on long wave is now a small minority. The cricket broadcasts take precedence over on-the-hour news bulletins, but not the Shipping Forecast, as well as news and drama, the station has a strong reputation for comedy, including experimental and alternative comedy, many successful comedians and comedy shows first appearing on the station. The BBC Home Service was the predecessor of Radio 4 and broadcast between 1939 and 1967 and it had regional variations and was broadcast on medium wave with a network of VHF FM transmitters being added from 1955. Radio 4 replaced it on 30 September 1967, when the BBC renamed many of its radio stations. For a time during the 1970s Radio 4 carried regional news bulletins Monday to Saturday and these were broadcast twice at breakfast, at lunchtime and an evening bulletin was aired at 5. 55pm. There were also programme variations for the parts of England not served by BBC Local Radio stations and these included Roundabout East Anglia, a VHF opt-out of the Today programme broadcast from BBC Easts studios in Norwich each weekday from 6.45 am to 8.45 am. Roundabout East Anglia came to an end in 1980, when local services were introduced to East Anglia with the launch of BBC Radio Norfolk. All regional news bulletins broadcast from BBC regional news bases around England ended in August 1980 apart from in the south west, in September 1991 it was decided that the main Radio 4 service would be on FM as coverage had extended to cover almost all of the UK. Opt-outs were transferred to long wave, currently Test Match Special, extra shipping forecasts, The Daily Service, long wave very occasionally opts out at other times, such as to broadcast special services, the most recent being when Pope Benedict XVI visited Britain in 2010
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Rupert Penry-Jones
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Penry-Jones was born in London, the son of Welsh actor Peter Penry-Jones and English actress Angela Thorne. His brother, Laurence Penry-Jones, is an actor turned ambulance driver who is married to actress Polly Walker, on BBC Ones Who Do You Think You Are. Penry-Jones also discovered that he had Anglo-Indian ancestry from the early 19th century. Penry-Jones was educated at Dulwich College in Dulwich, London, until age 17 when he was enrolled at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and his bad influence was a result of a broken relationship, which Rupert stated he tried to recover from by shagging everything in sight. Being dyslexic, he struggled at school, eventually leaving without A-levels, in 1995 he appeared with his mother on television in Cold Comfort Farm. He made his London stage debut at the Hackney Empire theatre in 1995 playing Fortinbras to Ralph Fienness Hamlet in an Almeida production of Hamlet and he was cast as Richard in the premiere staging of Stephen Poliakoffs Sweet Panic at Hampstead Theatre in 1996. In 1998, he created the role of the Boy in Edward Albees The Play About the Baby at the Almeida Theatre, both productions transferred to the Barbican Centre in London in 2000, where his performance as Don Carlos won the Ian Charleson Award. At the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, in 2001 he was cast as Robert Caplan in J. B. Priestleys thriller time-play Dangerous Corner opposite Dervla Kirwan, the production then transferred for a four-month run at the Garrick Theatre in Londons West End. From July to October 2003 at the Nationals Cottesloe Theatre he played the role of Louis XIV in Nick Dears historical drama Power. He returned to the theatre at the end of 2009 playing the role of Carl in Michael Wynnes new play The Priory at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2004, he joined the cast in series 3 of the BBCs BAFTA-winning series Spooks. He played the role of section leader Adam Carter for four series before leaving the show in 2008. He won ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards for his role in Spooks in 2008 and he also went on to play the role of Captain Wentworth in ITVs adaptation of Persuasion. In 2008, he starred with Bradley Whitford and Neve Campbell in Burn Up playing an oil executive who becomes embroiled in the politics surrounding global warming and he played Richard Hannay in the BBC adaptation of The 39 Steps which was screened at Christmas 2008. In 2009, he was cast as the lead in the unaired ABC pilot The Forgotten but was replaced when the pilot was picked up. Penry-Jones was apparently devastated and proceeded to give a number of interviews in the UK in which he attacked the US television industry and he has since described American television as a factory and the producers as disgusting. In February 2009, he took the lead in an ITV drama, Whitechapel, Whitechapel was the highest-performing new drama in 2009. A second series of the show based around the Kray twins was broadcast in autumn 2010, the fourth and last series aired in September 2013, and no further series were commissioned due to poor ratings. Penry-Jones was also cast opposite Maxine Peake in a legal drama Silk created by Peter Moffat, the show revolves around two barristers, played by Penry-Jones and Peake who are competing to become QCs
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The Daily Telegraph
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It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as The Daily Telegraph and Courier, the papers motto, Was, is, and will be, appears in the editorial pages and has featured in every edition of the newspaper since April 19,1858. The paper had a circulation of 460,054 in December 2016 and its sister paper, The Sunday Telegraph, which started in 1961, had a circulation of 359,287 as of December 2016. The Daily Telegraph has the largest circulation for a newspaper in the UK. The two sister newspapers are run separately, with different editorial staff, but there is cross-usage of stories, articles published in either may be published on the Telegraph Media Groups www. telegraph. co. uk website, under the title of The Telegraph. However, critics, including an editor, accuse it of being unduly influenced by advertisers. The Daily Telegraph and Courier was founded by Colonel Arthur B, Sleigh in June 1855 to air a personal grievance against the future commander-in-chief of the British Army, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge. Joseph Moses Levy, the owner of The Sunday Times, agreed to print the newspaper, the paper cost 2d and was four pages long. Nevertheless, the first edition stressed the quality and independence of its articles and journalists, however, the paper was not a success, and Sleigh was unable to pay Levy the printing bill. Levy took over the newspaper, his aim being to produce a newspaper than his main competitors in London. The same principle should apply to all other events—to fashion, to new inventions, in 1876, Jules Verne published his novel Michael Strogoff, whose plot takes place during a fictional uprising and war in Siberia. In 1937, the newspaper absorbed The Morning Post, which espoused a conservative position. Originally William Ewart Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose, bought The Morning Post with the intention of publishing it alongside The Daily Telegraph, for some years the paper was retitled The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post before it reverted to just The Daily Telegraph. As an result, Gordon Lennox was monitored by MI5, in 1939, The Telegraph published Clare Hollingworths scoop that Germany was to invade Poland. In November 1940, with Fleet Street subjected to almost daily bombing raids by the Luftwaffe, The Telegraph started printing in Manchester at Kemsley House, Manchester quite often printed the entire run of The Telegraph when its Fleet Street offices were under threat. The name Kemsley House was changed to Thomson House in 1959, in 1986 printing of Northern editions of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph moved to Trafford Park and in 2008 to Newsprinters at Knowsley, Liverpool. During the Second World War, The Daily Telegraph covertly helped in the recruitment of code-breakers for Bletchley Park, the ability to solve The Telegraphs crossword in under 12 minutes was considered to be a recruitment test. The competition itself was won by F. H. W. Hawes of Dagenham who finished the crossword in less than eight minutes, both the Camrose and Burnham families remained involved in management until Conrad Black took control in 1986
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James Bond (literary character)
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Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is a fictional character created by British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the protagonist of the James Bond series of novels, films, comics, Fleming wrote twelve Bond novels and two short story collections, although the last two books—The Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy and The Living Daylights—were published posthumously. The Bond character is a Secret Service agent, code number 007, residing in London but active internationally. Bond has a number of traits which run throughout the books, including an enjoyment of cars, a love of food and drink. There have also other authors who wrote one book each, Kingsley Amis, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver, William Boyd. Additionally, a series of novels based on Bonds youth—Young Bond—was written by Charlie Higson, as spin-offs from the literary works, there was a television adaptation of the first novel, Casino Royale, in which Bond was played as an American agent. A comic strip also ran in the Daily Express newspaper. There have been 26 Bond films, seven actors have played Bond in these films, the central figure in Ian Flemings work was the fictional character of James Bond, an intelligence officer in the Secret Service. Bond was also known by his number,007, and was a Royal Naval Reserve Commander. During World War II, Ian Fleming had mentioned to friends that he wanted to write a spy novel. It was not until 1952, however, shortly before his wedding to his pregnant girlfriend, Ann Charteris and he finished work on the manuscript in just over a month, completing it on 18 March 1952. Fleming went on to write a total of twelve Bond novels, the last two books—The Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy and The Living Daylights—were published posthumously. Among those types were his brother, Peter, whom Fleming worshipped, sir Fitzroy Maclean was another figure mentioned as a possibility, based on his wartime work behind enemy lines in the Balkans, as was the MI6 double agent Dušan Popov. Distinct similarities between the protagonist in The Life Line, Mark Chalmers and James Bond have been highlighted by spy writer, Nigel West. On another occasion Fleming said, I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, James Bond was much better than something more interesting, like Peregrine Carruthers. Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure—an anonymous, after Fleming met the ornithologist and his wife, he described them as a charming couple who are amused by the whole joke. In the first draft of Casino Royale he decided to use the name James Secretan as Bonds cover name while on missions, Bonds number—007—was assigned by Fleming in reference to one of British naval intelligences key achievements of World War I, the breaking of the German diplomatic code. One of the German documents cracked and read by the British was the Zimmermann Telegram, which was coded 0075, facially, Bond resembles the composer, singer and actor Hoagy Carmichael
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James Bond
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The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. The latest novel is Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz, published in September 2015, additionally Charlie Higson wrote a series on a young James Bond, and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring series character, Moneypenny. The character has also adapted for television, radio, comic strip, video games. As of 2017, there have been twenty-four films in the Eon Productions series, the most recent Bond film, Spectre, stars Daniel Craig in his fourth portrayal of Bond, he is the sixth actor to play Bond in the Eon series. There have also two independent productions of Bond films, Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again. In 2015, the franchise was estimated to be worth $19.9 billion, the Bond films are renowned for a number of features, including the musical accompaniment, with the theme songs having received Academy Award nominations on several occasions, and two wins. Other important elements which run through most of the films include Bonds cars, his guns, the films are also noted for Bonds relationships with various women, who are sometimes referred to as Bond girls. Ian Fleming created the character of James Bond as the central figure for his works. Bond is an officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. Bond is known by his number,007, and was a Royal Naval Reserve Commander. Among those types were his brother, Peter, who had involved in behind-the-lines operations in Norway. Aside from Flemings brother, a number of others also provided some aspects of Bonds make up, including Conrad OBrien-ffrench, Patrick Dalzel-Job and Bill Biffy Dunderdale. The name James Bond came from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies. He further explained that, When I wrote the first one in 1953, I wanted Bond to be a dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened. When I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, is the dullest name I ever heard. On another occasion, Fleming said, I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, James Bond was much better than something more interesting, like Peregrine Carruthers. Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure—an anonymous, likewise, in Moonraker, Special Branch Officer Gala Brand thinks that Bond is certainly good-looking. Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way and that black hair falling down over the right eyebrow
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Casino Royale (novel)
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Casino Royale is the first novel by the British author Ian Fleming. The story concerns the British secret agent James Bond, gambling at the casino in Royale-les-Eaux to bankrupt Le Chiffre, the treasurer of a French union and a member of the Russian secret service. Bond is supported in his endeavours by Vesper Lynd, a member of his own service, as well as Felix Leiter of the CIA, Fleming wrote the draft in early 1952 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica while awaiting his marriage. He was initially unsure whether the work was suitable for publication, but was assured by his friend, the novelist William Plomer, since publication Casino Royale has appeared as a comic strip in a British national newspaper, The Daily Express. As part of Bonds cover as a rich Jamaican playboy, M also assigns as his companion Vesper Lynd, the CIA and the French Deuxième Bureau also send agents as observers. The game soon turns into a confrontation between Le Chiffre and Bond, Le Chiffre wins the first round, cleaning Bond out of his funds. As Bond contemplates the prospect of reporting his failure to M, the CIA agent, Felix Leiter, gives him an envelope of money, with the compliments of the USA. The game continues, despite the attempts of one of Le Chiffres minders to kill Bond, Bond eventually wins, taking from Le Chiffre eighty million francs belonging to SMERSH. Desperate to recover the money, Le Chiffre kidnaps Lynd and tortures Bond, during the torture session, a SMERSH assassin enters and kills Le Chiffre as punishment for losing the money. The agent does not kill Bond, saying that he has no orders to do so, Lynd visits Bond every day as he recuperates in hospital, and he gradually realises that he loves her, he even contemplates leaving the Secret Service to settle down with her. When he is released from hospital they spend time together at a quiet guest house, one day they see a mysterious man named Gettler tracking their movements, which greatly distresses Lynd. The following morning, Bond finds that she has committed suicide and she leaves behind a note explaining that she had been working as an unwilling double agent for the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Bond informs his service of Lynds duplicity, coldly telling his contact, Ian Fleming, born in 1908, was a son of Valentine Fleming, a wealthy banker and MP who died in action on the Western Front in May 1917. Fleming joined the organisation full-time in August 1939, with the codename 17F, early in 1939 he began an affair with Ann ONeill, who was married to the 3rd Baron ONeill. In 1942 Fleming attended an Anglo-American intelligence summit in Jamaica and, despite the constant heavy rain during his visit and his friend Ivar Bryce helped find a plot of land in Saint Mary Parish where, in 1945, Fleming had a house built, which he named Goldeneye. The name of the house and estate has many possible sources, Fleming mentioned both his wartime Operation Goldeneye and Carson McCullers 1941 novel Reflections in a Golden Eye, which described the use of British naval bases in the Caribbean by the US Navy. Upon Flemings demobilisation in May 1945, he became the Foreign Manager in the Kemsley newspaper group, in this role he oversaw the papers worldwide network of correspondents. His contract allowed him to two months holiday every winter in Jamaica
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Live and Let Die (novel)
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Live and Let Die is the second novel in Ian Flemings James Bond series of stories, and is set in London, the US and Jamaica. It was first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1954, Fleming wrote the novel at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica before his first book, Casino Royale, was published, much of the background came from Flemings travel in the US and knowledge of Jamaica. Bond becomes involved in the US through Mr Bigs smuggling of 17th-century gold coins from British territories in the Caribbean, as with Casino Royale, Live and Let Die was broadly well received by the critics. The initial print run of 7,500 copies quickly sold out, US sales, when the novel was released there a year later, were much slower. Major plot elements from the novel were incorporated into the Bond films For Your Eyes Only in 1981. The British Secret Service agent James Bond is sent by his superior, M, to New York City to investigate Mr Big, real name Buonaparte Ignace Gallia. These gold coins have been turning up in Harlem and Florida and are suspected of being part of a treasure that was buried in Jamaica by the pirate Sir Henry Morgan, in New York Bond meets up with his counterpart in the CIA, Felix Leiter. The two visit some of Mr Bigs nightclubs in Harlem, but are captured, Bond is interrogated by Mr Big, who uses his fortune-telling employee, Solitaire, to determine if Bond is telling the truth. Solitaire lies to Mr Big, supporting Bonds cover story, Mr Big decides to release Bond and Leiter, and has his henchman Tee-Hee Johnson break one of Bonds fingers. On leaving, Bond kills Tee-Hee and several more of Mr Bigs men, while Leiter is released with minimal physical harm by a gang member, sympathetic because of a shared appreciation of jazz. Solitaire later leaves Mr Big and contacts Bond, the travel by train to St. Petersburg, Florida. While Bond and Leiter are scouting one of Mr Bigs warehouses used for storing exotic fish, Bond finds him in their safe house with a note pinned to his chest He disagreed with something that ate him. Bond then investigates the warehouse himself and discovers that Mr Big is smuggling gold coins by hiding them in the bottom of tanks holding poisonous tropical fish, which he is bringing into the US. He is attacked in the warehouse by the Robber, another of Mr Bigs men, during the resultant gunfight, Bond outwits the Robber and causes him to fall into the shark tank. Bond continues his mission in Jamaica, where he meets a fisherman, Quarrel, and John Strangways. Quarrel gives Bond training in scuba diving in the local waters, Bond swims through shark- and barracuda-infested waters to Mr Bigs island and manages to plant a limpet mine on the hull of his yacht before being captured once again by Mr Big. Bond and Solitaire are saved when the mine explodes seconds before they are dragged over the reef. Between January and March 1952 the journalist Ian Fleming wrote Casino Royale, his first novel, Fleming conducted research for Live and Let Die, and completed the novel before Casino Royale was published in January 1953, four months before his second book was published
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Moonraker (novel)
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Moonraker is the third novel by the British author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. It was published by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1955 and featured a design conceived by Fleming. The plot is derived from a Fleming screenplay that was too short for a novel so he added the bridge passage between Bond and the industrialist Hugo Drax. In the latter half of the novel, the premise of Bond seconded to Draxs staff as the businessman builds the Moonraker, a prototype missile designed to defend England. Unknown to Bond, Drax is German, a now working for the Soviets, his plan is to build the rocket, arm it with a nuclear warhead. Uniquely for a Bond novel, Moonraker is set entirely in Britain, Moonraker, like Flemings previous novels, was well received by critics. Moonraker plays on a number of 1950s fears, including attack by rockets, Soviet communism, the re-emergence of Nazism, Fleming examines Englishness, and the novel shows the virtues and strength of England. Adaptations include a broadcast on South African radio in 1956 starring Bob Holness, the British Secret Service agent James Bond is asked by his superior, M, to join him at Ms club, Blades. A club member, the multi-millionaire businessman Sir Hugo Drax, is winning considerable money playing bridge, M suspects Drax is cheating, and while claiming indifference, is concerned as to why a multi-millionaire and national hero would cheat. Bond confirms Draxs deception and manages to turn the tables—aided by a pack of stacked cards—and wins £15,000, Drax is the product of a mysterious background, purportedly unknown even to himself. After extensive rehabilitation in an hospital, he returned home to become a wealthy industrialist. Because the rockets engine could withstand heat, the Moonraker was able to use these powerful fuels. All the rocket scientists working on the project are German, at his post on the complex, Bond meets Gala Brand, a beautiful police Special Branch officer working undercover as Draxs personal assistant. Bond also uncovers clues concerning his predecessors death, concluding that the man may have killed for witnessing a submarine off the coast. Draxs henchman Krebs is caught by Bond snooping through his room, later, an attempted assassination by triggering a landslide nearly kills Bond and Brand, as they swim beneath the Dover cliffs. Drax takes Brand to London, where she discovers the truth about the Moonraker by comparing her own launch trajectory figures with those in a notebook picked from Draxs pocket. She is captured by Krebs, and finds herself captive in a secret radio homing station—intended to serve as a beacon for the missiles guidance system—in the heart of London. While she is being taken back to the Moonraker facility by Drax, Bond gives chase, but is also captured by Drax and Krebs
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Diamonds Are Forever (novel)
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Diamonds Are Forever is the fourth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the story at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, inspired by a Sunday Times article on diamond smuggling, the book was first published by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom on 26 March 1956. The story centres on Bonds investigation of a diamond-smuggling ring originating in the mines of Sierra Leone, along the way Bond meets and falls in love with one of the members of the smuggling gang, Tiffany Case. Much of Flemings background research formed the basis for his non-fiction 1957 book The Diamond Smugglers, Diamonds Are Forever deals with international travel, marriage and the transitory nature of life. As with Flemings previous novels, Diamonds Are Forever received broadly positive reviews at the time of publication, the story was serialised in the Daily Express newspaper, first in an abridged, multi-part form and then as a comic strip. In 1971 it was adapted into the seventh Bond film in the series and was the last Eon Productions film to star Sean Connery as Bond, the British Secret Service agent James Bond is sent on an assignment by his superior, M. Acting on information received from Special Branch, M tasks Bond with infiltrating a smuggling ring transporting diamonds from mines in the Crown colony of Sierra Leone to the United States, Bond must infiltrate the smugglers pipeline to uncover those responsible. Bond discovers that the ring is operated by the Spangled Mob and he follows the trail from London to New York. To earn his fee for carrying the diamonds he is instructed by a member, Shady Tree. There Bond meets Felix Leiter, a former CIA agent working at Pinkertons as a detective investigating crooked horse racing. Leiter bribes the jockey to ensure the failure of the plot to rig the race, when he goes to make the payment, he witnesses two homosexual thugs, Wint and Kidd, attack the jockey. Bond calls Tree to enquire further about the payment of his fee and is told to go to the Tiara Hotel in Las Vegas, the Tiara is owned by Seraffimo Spang and operates as the headquarters of the Spangled Mob. Spang also owns an old Western ghost town, named Spectreville, at the hotel Bond finally receives payment through a rigged blackjack game where the dealer is Tiffany. After winning the money he is owed he disobeys his orders from Tree by continuing to gamble in the casino, Spang suspects that Bond may be a plant and has him captured and tortured at Spectreville. With Tiffanys help he escapes from Spectreville aboard a railway push-car with Seraffimo Spang in pursuit aboard an old Western train, Bond changes the points and re-routes the train onto a dead-end, and shoots Spang before the resulting crash. Assisted by Leiter, Bond and Tiffany go via California to New York, where they board the RMS Queen Elizabeth to travel to London, Wint and Kidd observe their embarkation and follow them on board. They kidnap Tiffany, planning to kill her and throw her overboard, Bond rescues her and kills both gangsters, he makes it look like a murder-suicide. Tiffany subsequently informs Bond of the details of the pipeline, the story begins in Africa where a dentist bribes miners to smuggle diamonds in their mouths, he extracts the gems during routine appointments
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From Russia, with Love (novel)
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From Russia, with Love is the fifth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the story in early 1956 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, the novel was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape on 8 April 1957. The story centres on a plot by SMERSH, the Soviet counter-intelligence agency, as bait, the Russians use a beautiful cipher clerk and the Spektor, a Soviet decoding machine. Much of the takes place in Istanbul and on the Orient Express. The book was inspired by Flemings visit to Turkey on behalf of The Sunday Times to report on an Interpol conference, from Russia, with Love deals with the East–West tensions of the Cold War, and the decline of British power and influence in the post-Second World War era. From Russia, with Love received broadly positive reviews at the time of publication, the story was serialised in the Daily Express newspaper, first in an abridged, multi-part form and then as a comic strip. In 1963 it was adapted into the film in the Bond series. SMERSH, the Soviet counterintelligence agency, plans to commit an act of terrorism in the intelligence field. For this, it targets the British secret service agent James Bond. Due in part to his role in the defeat of the SMERSH agents Le Chiffre, Mr Big and Hugo Drax, Bond has been listed as an enemy of the Soviet state and a death warrant has been issued for him. His death is planned to precipitate a major sex scandal, which run in the world press for months. Bonds killer is to be the SMERSH executioner Red Grant, a psychopath whose homicidal urges coincide with the full moon, kronsteen, SMERSHs chess-playing master planner, and Colonel Rosa Klebb, the head of Operations and Executions, devise the operation. As an added lure for Bond, Romanova will provide the British with a Spektor and she is not told the details of the plan. The offer of defection is received by MI6 in London, ostensibly from Romanova, but is conditional that Bond collects her and the Spektor from Istanbul. MI6 is unsure of Romanovas motive, but the prize of the Spektor is too tempting to ignore, Bonds superior, M, once there, Bond forms a comradeship with Darko Kerim, head of the British services station in Turkey. Bond meets Romanova and they plan their route out of Turkey with the Spektor and he and Kerim believe her story and the three board the Orient Express. Bond and Kerim quickly discover three Russian MGB agents on board, travelling incognito, at Trieste a fellow MI6 agent, Captain Nash, introduces himself and Bond presumes he has been sent by M as added protection for the rest of the trip. Romanova is suspicious of Nash, but Bond reassures her that the man is from his own service, after dinner, at which Nash has drugged Romanova, they rest, Bond wakes up to find a gun pointing at him and Nash reveals himself to be the killer Grant
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Dr. No (novel)
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No is the sixth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the novel in early 1957 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica and it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape on 31 March 1958. The novel centres on Bonds investigation into the disappearance in Jamaica of two fellow MI6 operatives and he establishes that they had been investigating Doctor No, a Chinese operator of a guano mine on the fictional Caribbean island of Crab Key. Bond travels to the island and meets Honeychile Rider and later Doctor No, the novel began as a 1956 screenplay for the producer Henry Morgenthau III for a proposed television show entitled Commander Jamaica. When those plans foundered, Fleming adapted the ideas as the basis for a novel, the books eponymous villain was influenced by Sax Rohmers Fu Manchu stories. No was the first of Flemings novels to face widespread negative criticism in Britain, Paul Johnson of the New Statesman dismissed the book as one of Sex, Snobbery, when released on the American market it was received more favourably. No was serialised in The Daily Express, first in a story form. The story was adapted in 1962 as the first film in the Bond series, with Sean Connery in the role, in 2008 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a version. After recovering from tetrodotoxin poisoning inflicted by the SMERSH agent Rosa Klebb the MI6 agent James Bond is sent by his superior, M, while there he is instructed to investigate the disappearance of Commander John Strangways, the head of MI6s Station J in Kingston, and his secretary. Bond is briefed that Strangways had been investigating the activities of Doctor Julius No, the island has a colony of roseate spoonbills at one end while local rumour is that a vicious dragon also lives there. The spoonbills are protected by the American National Audubon Society, two of whose representatives died when their plane crashed on Nos airstrip. With the help of an old friend, Quarrel, Bond surreptitiously visits Crab Key to establish whether there is a connection between No and the disappearance of the MI6 personnel, Bond and Quarrel meet Honeychile Rider, who is there to collect valuable shells. Bond and Rider are captured by Nos men after Quarrel is burned to death by the doctors dragon—a flamethrowing armoured swamp buggy designed to keep away trespassers. Bond discovers that No is working with the Russians and has built an underground facility from which he can sabotage US test missiles launched from Cape Canaveral. No had previously been a member of a Chinese tong, but after he stole an amount of money from their treasury. The tongs leaders had Nos hands cut off as a warning to others, because Nos heart was on the right side of his body, the bullet missed it and he survived. Interested in the ability of the body to withstand and survive pain. Bond is kept under observation as he suffers electric shocks, burns, Bonds ordeal ends in a fight with a captive giant squid, which he defeats by using improvised weapons
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For Your Eyes Only (short story collection)
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For Your Eyes Only is a collection of short stories by the British author Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond. It was first published by Jonathan Cape on 11 April 1960 and it marked a change of format for Fleming, who had previously written James Bond stories only as full-length novels. The collection contains five stories, From a View to a Kill, For Your Eyes Only, Quantum of Solace, Risico. Four of the stories were adaptations of plots for a series that was never filmed, while the fifth Fleming had written previously. Fleming undertook some minor experiments with the format, including a story written as an homage to W. Somerset Maugham, an author he greatly admired. Elements from the stories have been used in a number of the Eon Productions James Bond film series, including the 1981 film, For Your Eyes Only, the film used some elements and characters from the short stories For Your Eyes Only and Risico. From a View to a Kill also gave part of its title to the fourteenth Bond film, plot elements from The Hildebrand Rarity were used in the sixteenth Bond film, Licence to Kill, and the twenty-fourth Bond film Spectre references the title. Quantum of Solace was used as the title for the twenty-second Bond film, Bond investigates the murder of a motorcycle dispatch-rider and the theft of his top-secret documents by a motorcycle-riding assassin. The rider was en route from SHAPE, the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, then located in Versailles, to his base, Station F, since Bond is already in Paris, his superior, M, sends him to assist in the investigation in any way he can. Bond disguises himself as a dispatch-rider and follows the journey to Station F as the previous rider, as expected. Bond, however, is ready and kills the assassin and he then uncovers the assassins hidden base of operations. They are killed by two Cuban hitmen at the direction of their leader, Major Gonzales, all three work for von Hammerstein, the Havelocks turn out to be close friends of M, who served as the grooms best man during their wedding in 1925. When Bond arrives on the scene, he finds the Havelocks daughter, Judy, Judy kills von Hammerstein by shooting him in the back with an arrow from 100 yards away at the exact moment that he dives into a lake. A shoot-out then occurs between Bond and Gonzales and the two Cuban gunmen, Bond kills all of them and returns to Canada with Judy, who has been wounded during the gunfight. After completing a mission in the Bahamas, Bond is in Nassau, when the other guests have left, Bond remarks that, if he ever marries, he imagines it would be nice to marry an air hostess. The Governor then tells Bond the story of a relationship between a civil servant Philip Masters and air hostess Rhoda Llewellyn. After meeting aboard a flight to London, the married and went to live in Bermuda. As a result, Masters work deteriorated, and he suffered a nervous breakdown, after recovering, he was given a break from Bermuda by the Governor and sent on an assignment to Washington
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Thunderball (novel)
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Thunderball is the ninth book in Ian Flemings James Bond series, and the eighth full-length James Bond novel. It was first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 27 March 1961, the story centres on the theft of two atomic bombs by the crime syndicate SPECTRE and the subsequent attempted blackmail of the Western powers for their return. James Bond, Secret Service operative 007, travels to the Bahamas to work with his friend Felix Leiter, seconded back into the CIA for the investigation. Thunderball also introduces SPECTREs leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in the first of three appearances in Bond novels, with On Her Majestys Secret Service and You Only Live Twice being the others. Thunderball has been adapted four times, once in a comic strip format for the Daily Express newspaper, twice for the cinema and once for the radio. The Daily Express strip was cut short on the order of its owner, Lord Beaverbrook, on screen, Thunderball was released in 1965 as the fourth film in the Eon Productions series, with Sean Connery as James Bond. The second adaptation, Never Say Never Again, was released as an independent production in 1983 also starring Connery as Bond and was produced by Kevin McClory, BBC Radio 4 aired an adaptation in December 2016, directed by Martin Jarvis. It starred Toby Stephens as Bond and Tom Conti as Largo, Thunderball begins with a meeting between Bond and his superior, M, during which the agent is told that his latest physical assessment is poor because of excessive drinking and smoking. M sends Bond on a treatment at the Shrublands health clinic to improve his health. At the clinic Bond encounters Count Lippe, a member of the Red Lightning Tong criminal organisation from Macau, when Bond learns of the Tong connection, Lippe tries to kill him by tampering with a spinal traction machine. Bond, however, is saved by nurse Patricia Fearing and later retaliates against Lippe by trapping him in a bath, resulting in the Counts second-degree burns. SPECTRE is headed by criminal mastermind Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Count Lippe was dispatched to Shrublands to oversee Giuseppe Petacchi of the Italian Air Force, at the Boscombe Down Airfield, a bomber squadron base. Although Lippe was successful, Blofeld considered him unreliable, because of his clash with Bond and, as a consequence. Acting as a NATO observer of Royal Air Force procedure, Petacchi is in SPECTREs pay to hijack the bomber in mid-flight by killing its crew and flying it to the Bahamas. Once there, Petacchi is killed and the plane, with bombs, are taken by Emilio Largo on board the cruiser yacht Disco Volante, the Americans and the British launch Operation Thunderball to foil SPECTRE and recover the two atomic bombs. On a hunch, M assigns Bond to the Bahamas to investigate, there, Bond meets Felix Leiter, seconded to the CIA from his usual role at Pinkertons because of the Thunderball crisis. While in Nassau, Bond meets Dominetta Domino Vitali, Largos mistress and she is living on board the Disco Volante and believes Largo is on a treasure hunt, although Largo makes her stay ashore while he and his partners hunt hidden treasure. After seducing her, Bond informs her that Largo killed her brother, Domino re-boards the Disco Volante with a Geiger counter to ascertain if the yacht is where the two nuclear bombs are hidden
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The Spy Who Loved Me (novel)
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The Spy Who Loved Me is the ninth novel in Ian Flemings James Bond series, first published by Jonathan Cape on 16 April 1962. Bond himself does not appear until two thirds of the way through the book, Fleming wrote a prologue to the novel giving Michel credit as a co-author. Broccoli, rather than any aspects of the plots, however, the character of Jaws is loosely based on one of the characters in the book and a British paperback edition was published after his death. A heavily adapted version of The Spy Who Loved Me appeared in the Daily Express newspaper in daily strip format in 1967–1968. In 1977 the title was used for the film in the Eon Productions series. It was the third to star Roger Moore as Bond and used no plot elements from the novel, Fleming structured the novel in three sections—Me, Them and Him to describe the phases of the story. Their physical relationship ended that night and Viv was subsequently rejected when Mallaby sent her a letter from Oxford University saying he was engaged to someone else by his parents. Vivs second love affair was with her German boss, Kurt Rainer and she informed Rainer and he paid for her to go to Switzerland to have an abortion, telling her that their affair was over. Two mobsters, Sluggsy Morant and Sol Horror Horowitz, both of work for Sanguinetti, arrive and say they are there to look over the motel for insurance purposes. The two have been hired by Sanguinetti to burn down the motel so that Sanguinetti can make a profit on the insurance, the blame for the fire would fall on Viv, who was to perish in the incident. The mobsters are cruel to Viv and, when she says she not want to dance with them, they attack her, holding her down. They are about to continue the attack with rape when the door buzzer stops them, Him British secret service agent James Bond appears at the door asking for a room, having had a flat tyre while passing. Bond quickly realises that Horror and Sluggsy are mobsters and that Viv is in danger, pressuring the two men, he eventually gets the gangsters to agree to provide him a room. That night Sluggsy and Horror set fire to the motel and attempt to kill Bond, a gun battle ensues and, during their escape, Horror and Sluggsys car crashes into a lake. Bond and Michel retire to bed, but Sluggsy is still alive and makes an attempt to kill them. As Viv finishes reading the note, a police detachment arrives. Viv reflects on this as she motors off at the end of the book, continuing her tour of America, continuation Bond author Raymond Benson sees Vivienne Michel as the best realised female characterisation undertaken by Fleming, partly because the story is told in the first person narrative. Academic Jeremy Black notes that Michel is the closest Fleming gets to kitchen sink realism in the Bond canon, she has been a victim of life in the past, but is wilful and tough, too
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service (novel)
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On Her Majestys Secret Service is the tenth novel in Ian Flemings James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 1 April 1963. The initial and secondary print runs sold out, with over 60,000 books sold in the first month, Fleming wrote the book in Jamaica whilst the first film in the Eon Productions series of films, Dr. No, was being filmed nearby. On Her Majestys Secret Service is the book in what is known as the Blofeld trilogy. The story centres on Bonds ongoing search to find Ernst Stavro Blofeld after the Thunderball incident, after meeting him and discovering his latest plans, Bond attacks the centre where he is based, although Blofeld escapes in the confusion. Bond meets and falls in love with Contessa Teresa Tracy di Vicenzo during the story, the pair marry at the end of the story but Blofeld kills Bonds wife, hours after the ceremony. Fleming made a number of revelations about Bonds character within the book, on Her Majestys Secret Service received broadly good reviews in the British and American press. The novel was adapted to run as a story in Playboy in 1963. In 1969 the novel was adapted as the film in the Eon Productions James Bond film series and was the only film to star George Lazenby as Bond. In 2014 On Her Majestys Secret Service was adapted as a play on BBC Radio, for more than a year, James Bond, British Secret Service operative 007, has been involved in Operation Bedlam, trailing the private criminal organisation SPECTRE and its leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. The organisation had hijacked two nuclear devices and subsequently blackmailed the western world, as described in Thunderball, convinced SPECTRE no longer exists, Bond is frustrated by MI6s insistence that he continue the search and his inability to find Blofeld. He composes a letter of resignation for his superior, M, the following day Bond follows her and interrupts her attempted suicide, but they are captured by professional henchmen. They are taken to the offices of Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Unione Corse, Tracy is the daughter and only child of Draco who believes the only way to save his daughter from further suicide attempts is for Bond to marry her. To facilitate this, he offers Bond a dowry of £1 million, Bond refuses the offer, afterwards Draco uses his contacts to inform Bond that Blofeld is somewhere in Switzerland. On a visit to the College of Arms, Bond finds that the motto of Sir Thomas Bond is The World Is Not Enough. Blofeld has undergone plastic surgery partly to remove his earlobes, but also to himself from the police. Bond learns Blofeld has been curing a group of young British and Irish women of their livestock, believing himself discovered, Bond escapes by ski from Piz Gloria, chased by SPECTRE operatives, a number of whom he kills in the process. Afterward, in a state of exhaustion, he encounters Tracy. She is in the town at the base of the mountain after being told by her father that Bond may be in the vicinity, Bond is too weak to take on Blofelds henchmen alone and she helps him escape to the airport
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You Only Live Twice (novel)
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You Only Live Twice is the eleventh novel in Ian Flemings James Bond series of stories. It was first published by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom on 26 March 1964, the book holds the distinction of being the last novel by Fleming to be published in his lifetime, with subsequent works being published posthumously. You Only Live Twice is the chapter in what is known as the Blofeld Trilogy. The story starts eight months after the murder of Tracy Bond, James Bond is drinking and gambling heavily and making mistakes on his assignments when, as a last resort, he is sent to Japan on a semi-diplomatic mission. Whilst there he is challenged by the Head of the Japanese Secret Service to kill Dr. Guntram Shatterhand, Bond realises that Shatterhand is Ernst Stavro Blofeld and sets out on a revenge mission to kill him and his wife, Irma Bunt. The novel deals on a level with the change in Bond from a depressed man in mourning, to a man of action bent on revenge. Through the mouths of his characters, Fleming also examines the decline of post-World War II British power and influence, notably in relation to the United States. The book was popular with the public, with pre-orders in the UK totalling 62,000, critics were more muted in their reactions, the story was serialised in the Daily Express newspaper and Playboy magazine, and also adapted for comic strip format in the Daily Express. In 1967, it was released as the entry in the Eon Productions James Bond film series. The novel has also adapted as a radio play and broadcast on the BBC. After the wedding-day murder of his wife, Tracy, Bond begins to let his slide, drinking and gambling heavily, making mistakes. In exchange, the Secret Service will allow the Japanese access to one of their own information sources, Bond is introduced to Tanaka—and to the Japanese lifestyle—by an Australian intelligence officer, Dikko Henderson. When Bond raises the purpose of his mission with Tanaka, it transpires that the Japanese have already penetrated the British information source and Bond has nothing left to bargain with. Instead, Tanaka asks Bond to kill Dr. Guntram Shatterhand, after examining photos of Shatterhand and his wife, Bond discovers that Shatterhand and his wife are Tracys murderers, Ernst Stavro Blofeld and Irma Bunt. Bond gladly takes the mission, keeping his knowledge of Blofelds identity a secret so that he can exact revenge for his wifes death. Made up and trained by Tanaka, and aided by former Japanese film star Kissy Suzuki, Bond attempts to live, Tanaka renames Bond Taro Todoroki for the mission. After surviving a near execution, Bond exacts revenge on Blofeld in a duel, Blofeld armed with a sword, Bond eventually kills Blofeld by strangling him, then blows up the castle. Upon escaping, he suffers an injury, leaving him an amnesiac living as a Japanese fisherman with Kissy, while the rest of the world believes him dead
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The Man with the Golden Gun (novel)
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The Man with the Golden Gun is the twelfth novel of Ian Flemings James Bond series. It was first published by Jonathan Cape in the UK on 1 April 1965, the novel was not as detailed or polished as the others in the series, leading to poor but polite reviews. Despite that, the book was a best-seller, the story centres on the fictional British Secret Service operative James Bond, who had been posted missing, presumed dead, after his last mission in Japan. Bond returns to England via the Soviet Union, where he had been brainwashed to attempt to assassinate his superior, after being cured by the MI6 doctors, Bond is sent to the Caribbean to find and kill Francisco Scaramanga, the titular Man with the Golden Gun. Much of the contained in the previous novels was missing. Publishers Jonathan Cape passed the manuscript to Kingsley Amis for his thoughts and advice on the story, the novel was serialised in 1965, firstly in the Daily Express and then in Playboy, in 1966 a daily comic strip adaptation was also published in the Daily Express. In 1974 the book was adapted as the ninth film in the Eon Productions James Bond series, with Roger Moore playing Bond and Flemings cousin, Christopher Lee. A year after James Bonds final confrontation with Ernst Stavro Blofeld, while on a mission in Japan, Bonds identity is confirmed, but during his debriefing interview with M, Bond tries to kill him with a cyanide pistol, the attempt fails. The Service learns that after destroying Blofelds castle in Japan, Bond suffered a head injury, having lived as a Japanese fisherman for several months, Bond travelled into the Soviet Union to learn his true identity. While there, he was brainwashed and assigned to kill M upon returning to England, now de-programmed, Bond is given a chance to re-prove his worth as a member of the 00 section following the assassination attempt. M sends Bond to Jamaica and gives him the impossible mission of killing Francisco Pistols Scaramanga. Scaramanga is known as The Man with the Golden Gun because his weapon of choice is a gold-plated Colt.45 revolver, Bond locates Scaramanga in a Jamaican bordello and manages to become his temporary personal assistant under the name Mark Hazard. He learns that Scaramanga is involved in a development on the island with a group of investors that consists of a syndicate of American gangsters. However, they learn that Scaramanga plans to eliminate Bond when the weekend is over, Bonds true identity is confirmed by a KGB agent and Scaramanga makes new plans to entertain the gangsters and the KGB agent by killing Bond while they are riding a sight-seeing train to a marina. However, Bond manages to turn the tables on Scaramanga and, with the help of Leiter, wounded, Scaramanga escapes into the swamps, where Bond pursues him. Scaramanga lulls Bond off-guard and shoots him with a golden derringer hidden in his palm, Bond is hit but returns fire and shoots Scaramanga several times, killing him at last. As Bond recuperates in hospital, he receives word from M that he is being considered for a knighthood, Bond turns down the offer, reflecting that any sort of public recognition would interfere with his duties in the Secret Service. The central character of the novel is James Bond, in The Man with the Golden Gun, he appears with a different personality from the previous stories and is robot-like, according to author of the continuation Bond novels, Raymond Benson
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Octopussy and The Living Daylights
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Octopussy and The Living Daylights is the fourteenth and final James Bond book written by Ian Fleming in the Bond series. The book is a collection of stories published posthumously in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape on 23 June 1966. The book originally contained just two stories, Octopussy and The Living Daylights, with subsequent editions also carrying firstly The Property of a Lady, the stories were first published in different publications, with Octopussy first serialised in the Daily Express in October 1965. The two original stories, Octopussy and The Living Daylights, were adapted for publication in comic strip format in the Daily Express in 1966–1967. Elements from the stories have also used in the Eon Productions Bond films. The Living Daylights, released in 1987, was the fifteenth Bond film produced by Eon, secret Service operative James Bond, code name 007, is assigned to apprehend a hero of the Second World War implicated in a murder involving a cache of Nazi gold. Bond appears only briefly in this story, which is mostly in flashback from the perspective of Major Dexter Smythe. Smythe had remained in Europe after the war, found the gold with the help of a mountain guide, Bond was put on the case after the guides body fell out of a glacier and he recognized the man as a ski instructor from his youth. Bond chooses not to take Smythe into custody immediately, but leaves him to contemplate his options - suicide or a court martial, as Smythe hunts for scorpion fish to feed his pet octopus, he suffers a sting which triggers a fatal heart attack. Deciding to spare Smythes reputation, Bond classifies the death as an accidental drowning, an unusually morose James Bond is assigned sniper duty to help British agent 272 escape from East Berlin. Bonds duty is to safeguard his crossing into West Berlin by eliminating a top KGB assassin codenamed Trigger who has been dispatched to kill him. Bond takes up a position on the edge of the border, in a hotel overlooking the no mans land of broken. On each of three nights, he sees a female orchestra arrive for rehearsal and leave, taking notice of a beautiful blonde cellist. Once 272 starts to cross the border, Bond sees Trigger get in position to kill him and he adjusts his aim at the last moment and shoots her rifle instead of killing her, allowing 272 to reach safety. Afterward, Bond admits to his spotter that he did not try for a shot only because Trigger had been a woman. He muses that even though 272 is safe, the mission will be considered a failure because he did not kill Trigger, and he hopes that M will fire him for it. Bond suspects that the Resident Director of the KGB in London will attend the auction and underbid for the item, Bond attends the auction, spots the man, and leaves to make arrangements for his expulsion from London as persona non grata. Once the mission is completed, with Bond deliberately not killing the assassin, raymond Benson considered Octopussy to be a morality tale, with greed bringing repercussions years later to the main protagonist, Dexter Smythe
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Kingsley Amis
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Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, according to his biographer, Zachary Leader, Amis was the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century. He is the father of British novelist Martin Amis, in 2008, The Times ranked Kingsley Amis thirteenth on their list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Kingsley Amis was born in Clapham, south London, the son of William Robert Amis and he was raised in Norbury – in his later estimation not really a place, its an expression on a map really I should say I came from Norbury station. He was educated at the City of London School on a scholarship, after his first year, and in April 1941 was admitted to St. Johns College, Oxford, also on a scholarship, where he read English. It was there that he met Philip Larkin, with whom he formed the most important friendship of his life, while at Oxford, in June 1941, Amis joined the Communist Party of Great Britain. After only a year, in July 1942, he was called up for national service, after serving in the Royal Corps of Signals in the Second World War, Amis returned to Oxford in October 1945 to complete his degree. Although he worked hard and earned in 1947 a first in English, in 1946 he met Hilary Bardwell, they married in 1948 after she became pregnant with their first child, Philip. Amis initially arranged for her to have an abortion, but changed his mind. He became a lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Two other children followed, Martin in August 1949 and Sally in January 1954. Days after Sallys birth, Amiss first novel Lucky Jim was published to acclaim, critics saw it as having caught the flavour of Britain in the 1950s. The novel won the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction and Amis was associated with the writers labelled the Angry Young Men. Lucky Jim was one of the first British campus novels, setting a precedent for later generations of such as Malcolm Bradbury, David Lodge, Tom Sharpe. As a poet, Amis was associated with The Movement, on returning to Britain, he fell into a rut, and he began looking for another post, after thirteen years at Swansea, Amis became a fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He regretted the move within a year, finding Cambridge an academic and social disappointment and resigned in 1963, intent on moving to Majorca, in 1963, Hilary discovered Amiss love affair with novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard. Hilary and Amis separated in August, and he went to live with Howard and he divorced Hilary in 1965 and married Howard the same year. In 1968 he moved with Howard to Lemmons, a house in Barnet and she and Amis divorced in 1983. In his last years, Amis shared a house with his first wife Hilary and her husband, Alastair Boyd
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John Gardner (British writer)
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Gardner, an ex-Royal Marine commando, worked for a period as an Anglican priest, but he lost his faith and left the church after a short time. After a battle with alcohol addiction he wrote his first book, Gardner went on to write over fifty works of fiction, including fourteen original James Bond novels, and the novel versions of two Bond films. He died from suspected heart failure on 3 August 2007, John Edmund Gardner was born on 20 November 1926 in Seaton Delaval, a small village in Northumberland. His parents were Cyril Gardner, a London-born Anglican priest who had been ordained in Wallsend in 1921, and Lena Henderson, a local girl, during the Second World War he joined the Home Guard, despite being only 13 at the time. Gardner subsequently served in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm, before transferring to the Royal Marines 42 Commando for service in the Middle, Gardner considered himself the worst commando in the world and, despite being a small-arms expert. Also knew a lot about explosives, he admitted that I bent an aeroplane I was learning to fly, after the war he went up to St Johns College, Cambridge, to study theology and was subsequently ordained as an Anglican priest in 1953. He realised that he had lost his faith and made an error in his career, he admitted that during one sermon. He was released from the church in 1958 and took up a position as a critic with the Stratford-upon-Avon Herald. It was whilst at the Herald—aged 33—that Gardner realised he was an alcoholic and he overcame his addiction and produced his first book as part of his therapy, the autobiographical Spin the Bottle, published in 1964. Critic and scholar John Sutherland says that of all the books Gardner published, the book appeared at the height of the fictional spy mania and, as a send-up of the whole business, was an immediate success. Upon reviewing the novel in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher wrote, the book was made into a film of the same name by MGM and another seven light-hearted novels and two short stories about the cowardly Oakes appeared over the next eleven years. In the mid-1970s Gardner also wrote the first of three using the character of Professor Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes series, the last of which was published posthumously. The third of series, titled simply Moriarty, was delayed due to a dispute with the publisher. Erik Lee Preminger bought the rights to the first of the trilogy - The Return of Moriarty -. Edgar Bronfman Jr. for Sagittarius Entertainment and Nat Cohen, for EMI Productions were to produce, donald Sutherland was to portray Moriarty. Funding however fell through shortly before filming was to begin, in 1979 Glidrose Publications approached Gardner and asked him to revive Ian Flemings James Bond series of novels. Between 1981 and 1996, Gardner wrote fourteen James Bond novels, Gardner stated that he wanted to bring Mr Bond into the 1980s, although he retained the ages of the characters as they were when Fleming had left them. Even though Gardner kept the ages the same, he made Bond grey at the temples as a nod to the passing of the years
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Licence Renewed
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Licence Renewed, first published in 1981, is the first novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Flemings secret agent, James Bond. It was the first proper James Bond novel since Kingsley Amiss Colonel Sun in 1968, carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and in the United States by Richard Marek, a G. P. Putnams Sons imprint. The release of Licence Renewed successfully relaunched the Bond literary franchise, in that time frame Gardner also wrote two novelizations. In 1979 Glidrose Publications approached Gardner and asked him to revive Ian Flemings James Bond series of novels, when hired to begin a new series of James Bond novels, author John Gardner was tasked with updating James Bond and his allies and transporting them into the 1980s. Most of all I wanted him to have operational know-how, the reality of correct tradecraft, updating the time frame to the 1980s, Gardners series picks up the career of James Bond some years after the Fleming novels ended. Due to the frame change Gardners series suggests that Flemings stories took place in the 1960s and 70s. The novel was initially titled Meltdown during the manuscript stage, when Licence Renewed begins, M reminds Bond that the 00 section has in fact been abolished, however, M retains Bond as a troubleshooter, telling him Youll always be 007 to me. Bond is assigned to investigate one Dr. Anton Murik, a brilliant nuclear physicist who is thought to have been having meetings with a terrorist named Franco, Franco is identified and tracked by MI5 to a village in Scotland called Murcaldy. Since Murcaldy is outside of MI6s jurisdiction, the Director-General of MI5, relying on information that MI5 did not have, M changes Bonds assignment to instead infiltrate Muriks Scottish castle and gain Muriks confidence. Bond makes contact with Murik at Ascot Racecourse where he feigns a coincidental meeting, mentioning to Murik that he is a looking for work. Later, Bond joins Murik in Scotland at Muriks behest and is hired to kill Franco, Muriks plan is to hijack six nuclear power plants around the world simultaneously with the aid of bands of terrorists supplied by Franco. To ensure that Murik can never be associated with this deal, ultimately terrorists do take over six nuclear power plants, but are prevented from starting a meltdown when they are given an abort code by Bond, believing him to be Murik. Murik is eventually defeated by Bond and Lavender before his demands are met, Murik is a brilliant nuclear physicist who had been kicked out of the Atomic Energy Commission for his radical beliefs on the safety of nuclear power. Mary Jane Mashkin, Muriks mistress who attempts to more than friends with James Bond to see if Bond was lying to Murik about being a mercenary looking for work. Lavender Peacock, Dr. Anton Muriks ward, unbeknownst to her, she is the true heir to the Murik family fortune. Caber, Muriks personal bodyguard and the Champion of Murcaldy and he especially dislikes Bond for beating him in a wrestling match in which Bond cheated to ensure victory. Franco Oliveiro Quesocriado, an international terrorist leader wanted in most European countries as well as some in the Middle East and he aids Murik by supplying willing terrorists for his meltdown operation and additionally accepts the task of assassinating Muriks ward, Lavender. In Licence Renewed Bond drives a Saab 900 Turbo, for some editions of the book, the car is shown as black or red on the book cover, however, in the book the cars colour is not mentioned
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For Special Services
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For Special Services, first published in 1982, was the second novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Flemings secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and in the United States by Coward, upon request by Donovan, Ian Fleming was contacted to write a lengthy memorandum describing the structure and functions of a secret service organisation. Parts of this memorandum were later used in the charter for the OSS. For appreciation of Flemings work Donovan presented Fleming with a.38 Police Positive Colt revolver with the inscription, the OSS was disbanded in 1945, accordingly, the Central Intelligence Agency, formed in 1947 is a direct descendant of the OSS. The British Secret Service learns that Bismaquer is a collector of rare prints, so Bond and Cedar visit the mans huge ranch in Amarillo. Their true identities are revealed, but not until Bond holds his own both in an impromptu car race arranged by Bismaquer, and in the bed of Bismaquers frustrated wife. Nena, who has one breast, quickly wins Bonds heart and his sympathy. Bond discovers that the revitalised SPECTRE plans to take control of NORAD headquarters in order to gain control of Americas military space satellite network. His true identity revealed, Bond is captured and brainwashed into believing he is an American general assigned to inspect NORAD, although he has been set up to be killed in the ensuing attack by SPECTRE forces on the base, Bond regains his personality and his memory. Apparently Bismaquer, who is bisexual, has taken a liking to Bond and she is later put out of her misery by Felix Leiter, who arrives on the scene to help rescue his daughter. James Bond M Ann Reilly Cedar Leiter Felix Leiter Markus Bismaquer, Bismaquer, married to Nena Bismaquer, is a collector of fine prints, walter Luxor, Is Bismaquers partner and a high-ranking member of SPECTRE At one point he is believed to be a revived Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Mike Mazzard, Is a member of SPECTRE tasked to bring Bond to Amarillo, after Bond objects this offer, Mazzard attempts to kill Bond in Washington D. C. Mazzard also aids Luxor in infiltrating NORAD HQ, Nena Bismaquer, Is the wife of Markus Bismaquer. She later turns out to be the daughter of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, kingsley Amis, himself a former Bond author, was the harshest. His Times Literary Supplement review called the book an unrelieved disaster, Gardner not the most self-assured of writers, and said that the plot was absurd and blundering. Amis said, What makes Mr Gardners book so hard to read is not so much its endlessly silly story as its desolateness, but then to do anything like that the writer must be genuinely interested in his material. Winks further said the book was bad when read back-to-back with Ian Flemings From a View to a Kill. The book is full of one sentence paragraphs — did Fleming ever really write this way, — and obligatory wholl sleep in the one bedroom, who on the couch scenes once calculated to titillate fourteen-year-olds
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Icebreaker (novel)
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Icebreaker, first published in 1983, was the third novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Flemings secret agent, James Bond. Bond reluctantly finds himself recruited into a mission involving an equally dangerous and treacherous alliance of agents from the United States. The team, dubbed Icebreaker, waste no time double-crossing each other, ostensibly their job is to root out the leader of the murderous National Socialist Action Army, Count Konrad von Glöda. The Count used to be known as Arne Tudeer, a one-time Nazi SS officer who now perceives himself as the new Adolf Hitler, the National Socialist Action Army is essentially a new wave of fascism as a means to wipe out communist leaders and supporters around the world. The novel is full of double-crosses and even triple-crosses, where the agents, the American agent, for instance, first appears to be a good guy then later is in cahoots with Glöda, and then still even later is a good guy once again. Things become even more complicated when the Israeli agent, Rivke, is revealed to be the daughter of Glöda/Tudeer and her allegiance, the Russian agent also double-crosses Bond in the hope of capturing him for KGB interrogation. Bond gets several weeks of driving training from Erik Carlsson as preparation for this Arctic assignment, James Bond M Paula Vacker, is a frequent love interest of James Bond that he visits while he is in Helsinki. During the course of the novel, her loyalty to him is questioned, initially appearing totally innocent, then in league with von Glöda, Brad Tirpitz, is a member of the Icebreaker team and an agent from the CIA. Buchtman, however, turns out to be an alias of Brad Tirpitz, kolya Mosolov, is a KGB agent who is a member of the Icebreaker team. He is discovered to have planned the entire Icebreaker team in coordination with von Glöda, the two have a deal in which Mosolov would betray his country and sell arms to von Glöda in exchange for the capture of secret agent 007. Mosolov being not only an agent of the KGB, but also an agent working within Department V, Mosolov believes that von Glöda will not succeed and is merely going along with the deal for the time being in order to capture Bond for the Soviets. Rivke Ingber, is a member of the Icebreaker team and an agent working for the Mossad and she is discovered to actually be Anni Tudeer, the daughter of Count von Glöda. Rivke plays both sides, initially acting like she is disgusted with her fathers past, but later actually being discovered to be in league with him, Count Konrad von Glöda, is the mastermind behind the National Socialist Action Army and self-declared Führer. His real name is Aarne Tudeer, a low-level SS officer wanted by the Allies for crimes during the Second World War and he attempts to bring back fascism by targeting communist leaders and supporters around the world. Gardner reveals that his publisher originally rejected the title Icebreaker, only to back to it after rejecting turkey after turkey in terms of alternate titles. Icebreaker was released in Finland under a title Tehtävä Suomessa, James Bond and his book strikes me as deficient in many of the basic requirements. Every time I try to enter into his latest conspiracy we bump heads and its one thing to accept an improbable plot and quite another to accept an improbable style. Im willing to suspend my disbelief, but not my affection for the English language
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Role of Honour
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Role of Honour, first published in 1984, was the fourth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Flemings secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape, after receiving a large inheritance, James Bond 007 is accused of improprieties and drummed out of the British Secret Service. But the whole thing was a hoax, just a plan to get Bond inside the enemys organization. Prior to joining up, Bond spends a month in Monte Carlo with Miss Percy Proud, a CIA agent who teaches him everything she knows about programming languages and computers in general. Bonds allegiance to SPECTRE is periodically questioned throughout the novel, even at one point going so far as to send Bond to a terrorist training camp to see if he has the right stuff. Proving his worth, Bond becomes involved in a plot to destabilise the Soviet Union, what SPECTRE leaders Tamil Rahani and Dr. Jay Autem Holy suspect, but never fully realise is that Bonds resignation is false. James Bond M Bill Tanner Q Persephone Percy Proud, Formerly Mrs. Jay Autem Holy, Percy is a CIA agent who went deep undercover by marrying Holy. After Holys faked death, she teams with Bond to teach him everything she knows about Holy and everything she knows about programming languages, Jay Autem Holy, supposedly died in a plane crash, prior to the events in Role of Honour. He now goes under the name Jason St. John Finnes and is secretly an agent of SPECTRE, Holy is an elite computer programmer once working for The Pentagon, he now owns and manages a software company that develops computer game simulations based on real-life wars and battles. He is the husband of Percy Proud and current husband to Dazzle. Holy is killed by Rahani after finding out he was betrayed, general Rolling Joe Zwingli, is an accomplice Jay Autem Holy and long-time friend. He also was killed in the plane crash. Zwingli is killed by one of Rahanis personnel after finding out he was double-crossed, Tamil Rahani, Part American, part Lebanese, he is the chairman and principal shareholder of Rahani Electronics and secretly the head of SPECTRE. He manages the Erewhon terrorist training camp along with his right-hand man, unlike most of the villains in a James Bond novel or film, Rahani actually lives and flees from capture. Bond is later informed that Rahani was secretly having an affair with Dazzle. Freddie Fortune, is an informant for Bond that he uses to get closer to Holy, cindy Chalmer, is a programmer who works for Holy at Endor. She is in league with Percy and an informant for her, peter Amadeus, is a programmer who works for Holy at Endor. He later escapes with the help of Bond and is used by the British Secret Service to one-up SPECTRE and he later takes a job within the Secret Service as a computer programmer
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Nobody Lives for Ever
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Nobody Lives for Ever, first published in 1986, was the fifth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Flemings secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape, trust no one, Bond is warned. James Bond M Miss Moneypenny May Maxwell Principessa Sukie Tempesta, is an Italian Princess whom Bond saves while driving to check up on his Scottish housekeeper, May. He later sees her again and offers to drive her home to Rome, however and she stays with Bond acting as a hostage and later refusing to leave his side in his moment of need. She is accompanied after her meeting with Bond by her friend and bodyguard. Nannette Nannie Norrich, is the head of an all-female bodyguard organisation, NUB, the two are good friends, however, Sukie is unaware that Nannie has entered the competition as freelance and has promised Rahani of delivering Bond to him. Herr Doktor Kirchtum, is the doctor who was overseeing May while she was at the clinic, after Moneypenny and May were kidnapped, Kirchtum was taken captive by Steve Quinn and forced to send instructions to Bond. Bond later frees Kirchtum only to later that Kirchtum was actually in league with Quinn. Kirchtum is subsequently killed by either Nannie or Sukie upon attempting to rescue 007 from Kirchtum, Steve Quinn, is the British Secret Services man in Rome. He is sent by M to assist Bond in fleeing mainland Europe so that Bond can return to London, unbeknownst to everyone, Quinn has defected to the KGB and currently works for SMERSH. Quinn is assisted in capturing Bond by Doktor Kirchtum, who likewise to Kirchtum is subsequently killed by either Nannie or Sukie upon attempting to rescue 007 from Kirchtum, tamil Rahani, is the leader of SPECTRE, previously in Role of Honour. After parachuting from an airship at the end of Role of Honour to escape capture by Bond, he landed badly, throughout the book Rahani is said to only have days to live. Knowing the end is near Rahani creates a competitive contest, the Head Hunt, Rahani is killed by Bond after having his bed rigged to detonate upon pushing a button that would normally allow Rahanis bed to be raised up. Nobody Lives for Ever is the last time the wood grain cover art has been used on a Bond novel. It was first seen on From Russia, with Love in 1957, publishers Weekly praised the book noting that on the basis of this entry Bond is likely to live forever. In true comic-book fashion, the gory chapters detail the horrors that kill almost everyone except Bond who obviously wont die until he wants to. Kirkus Reviews called this the most deft of Gardners Bond novels thus far, the anonymous reviewer praised the fairly inspired plot gimmick involving hunt for Bonds own head. Gardner weaves swift, outrageous coincidences into a plot that is quite fun to follow as it hops from the Tyrolean Alps to Salzburg to Key West
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No Deals, Mr. Bond
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No Deals, Mr. Bond, first published in 1987, was the sixth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Flemings secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and it was the last Bond novel to be published in Britain by Jonathan Cape, ending an association dating back to the first Bond novel, Casino Royale in 1953. No Deals, Mr. Bond has the distinction of being the first and, thus far. No Deals, Mr. Bond begins with a mission in the Baltic Sea dubbed Seahawk, after accomplishing his mission, the book continues five years later with Bond being called in by M to learn more background into what those women were doing there before being extracted. Involving 4 women and a man, the operation was considered a complete debacle that ended with the members being found out, after being extracted and given new identities, however, two of the women were discovered to be gruesomely murdered. Bond is subsequently sent by M, off the record, to find the members of Cream Cake before they suffer the same fate. This, however, is not the case, and, in actuality, instead, the former members, in addition to Smolin and another Soviet turncoat, Captain Dietrich, are being targeted by General Chernov, an agent of a department formerly known as SMERSH. The situation is further complicated after M gets a message to Bond warning him that one of the surviving Cream Cake members is a double and that he wants Chernov brought in alive. James Bond M Ebbie Heritage, Her real name is Emilie Nikolas, Ebbie was tasked with meeting and seducing a Major in the East German Army. Colonel Maxim Smolin, Born in 1946, Smolin, codenamed Basilisk, was the target during the operation known as Cream Cake. At the time Smolin was the second in command of the HVA, Smolin is also employed by the Soviet GRU. Unknown to the agencies of the Soviet Union, Smolin is a turncoat secretly working with the British Secret Service. Chernov is systematically targeting the members of Cream Cake as well as Colonel Maxim Smolin and Captain Dietrich who have since defected. Chernov is arrested by Bond in Hong Kong by orders of M. Heather Dare, Her real name is Irma Wagen, Dare was tasked with meeting and seducing Colonel Maxim Smolin. Dare was also one of the two women that was extracted by Bond during Seahawk and she is later discovered to be an agent of the KGB and working for General Chernov. Under orders by M that the Cream Cake double be eliminated, Dare is essentially executed by Bond after being disarmed, inspector Norman Murray, an inspector for the Republic of Irelands Special Branch. He lends aid to Bond while Bond is in the Republic of Ireland, secretly, however, Murray is on Chernovs payroll and eventually turns on Bond. He is later killed in Hong Kong by Bond, Gardner originally suggested the title Tomorrow Always Comes
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Scorpius (novel)
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Scorpius, first published in 1988, is the seventh novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Flemings secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton, after being connected to the death of a woman in London, Bond is called in by M to aid the investigation. Returning from Hereford, a Sergeant Pearlman tags along by driving Bond back, upon safely returning to headquarters, Bond is briefed on the investigation by M and Chief Superintendent Bailey. The woman, whom Bond does not know, was dead with Bonds telephone number. She is a member of a society known as The Meek Ones. With additional information from the CIA, the British Secret Service learn that Valentine is an alias for Vladimir Scorpius, as the countrys general election approaches, by the use of brainwashed cult members, Scorpius has begun a holy war against every man, woman, and child. Throughout the novel, The Meek Ones commit several acts of terrorism including multiple terrorist bombings, throughout the horror, Bond meets Harriett Horner, an IRS agent working undercover in England and investigating a credit card company run by Scorpius. The two work together along with Pearlman to attempt to track down Scorpius, after an interrogation of a captured cult member, Horner is taken captive by Scorpius men. Additionally, Pearlman confesses to Bond that he was secretly giving Scorpius information for the benefit of his daughter who had been brainwashed, together the two set out for Scorpius base of operations in South Carolina, having Scorpius believe Pearlman was taking Bond captive. At Scorpius island, Bond meets up with Horner once again, knowing that the marriage is invalid, Bond agrees to go ahead with it thinking it would buy him time until he can escape. On the night the two decide to escape, Harriett is killed by a water moccasin, at the same time the FBI is conducting a raid of Scorpius island, which further angers Bond since her death was in vain. Bond returns to the island, finding Scorpius attempting to flee, after giving chase, Bond successfully gets the upper hand and forces Scorpius to die in a similar manner to that of Horners death. James Bond M Bill Tanner Miss Moneypenny Harriett Horner, An IRS agent secretly working in England undercover, she is found by Bond, at Scorpius base, Bond and Horner pretend to marry, only for her to die a couple days later when attempting to flee Scorpius island. Sergeant Pearlman, Pearlman first meets Bond to deliver a message that he is requested by M. Pearlman drives Bond back, Bond later learns, however, that Pearlman was secretly feeding Scorpius information because his daughter was brainwashed and a member of The Meek Ones. He confesses this much to Bond and requests help in getting his daughter free from the society, unfortunately for Pearlman, when the opportunity arises, his daughter is sent on a death task to kill both the President of the United States and the British Prime Minister. She is unsuccessful and subsequently killed by Bond before she can detonate her explosives, Chief Superintendent Bailey, Bailey is sent by Special Branch to aid in the investigation of the terrorist activities in England. From the beginning he is aiding Scorpius by giving him information that allow Scorpius to be one step ahead of everyone. Bailey is shot and killed by Bond at the White House after attempting to witness the assassinations of both the President of the United States and the British Prime Minister
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Win, Lose or Die
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Win, Lose or Die, first published in 1989, was the eighth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Flemings secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder and Stoughton, beginning with this novel, and continuing for the remainder of the John Gardner series, Bond is promoted to the Royal Navy rank of Captain. W. Bush, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Russian Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, in the months leading to the top-secret summit, Bond spends his time training at Yeovilton learning to fly a Navy Sea Harrier jet. With knowledge of Bonds task, BAST decides that Bond is a hindrance to their plans and attempts to kill him, later, when Bond goes on holiday in Italy, another attempt is made on his life. Bond escapes and, presumably, ends up taking the life of his then-current girlfriend, James Bond M Bill Tanner Bassam Baradj, Born Robert Besavitsky in New York, Baradj is the main leader of BAST, codenamed Viper. BASTs plot to take over and hold the three most powerful leaders was his idea. He is later shot by Beatrice Maria da Ricci in Gibraltar, Abou Hamarik, Hamarik, codenamed Snake, is the second of three leaders of BAST. He is able to infiltrate HMS Invincible by killing an American Naval Intelligence officer who has called into replace another that was murdered on board the carrier. Hamarik is found out and is wounded by Nikki Ratnikov after he had taken Bond, after the incident, Hamarik is arrested by Bond. Clover Pennington, First Officer Clover Pennington is a Wren with the Royal Navy and she is secretly the third head of BAST, codenamed Cat. Under Penningtons leadership while Bond is away BAST is able to take over the carrier with a number of supporters. Pennington is accidentally killed by one of her supporters after being used as cover, Beatrice Maria da Ricci, Ricci is a secret operative working for the British secret service who has been tasked with protecting Bond, specifically while on holiday. She and Bond later team up to arrest Bassam Baradj, although ultimately she kills Baradj while saving Bonds life, Nikki Ratnikov, Nikki Ratnikov is a secret service agent from Russia who was sent to protect Mikhail Gorbachev during the Stewards Meeting. She is killed by Abou Hamarik during an exchange of gunfire while on board HMS Invincible, during the exchange she successfully wounds Hamarik, which later leads to his arrest. UK first hardback edition,1989 Hodder & Stoughton U. S. first hardback edition, the critic also believed that Bond was a product of his times. Gardner manages to remove most of the characteristics that made interesting and that the explosions, throat-cuttings and neck-breakings. The novel, has none of Flemings ability to build up tension or introduce detail casually, when Gardner talks knowledgeably about aircraft specifications the effect is only to reassure us that he has read the appropriate flight manual. The critic also accuses Gardner of cant quite bring himself to take it seriously, charles Champlin in the Los Angeles Times noted how different Fleming and Gardner are
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Brokenclaw
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Brokenclaw, first published in 1990, was the tenth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Flemings secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton, the book title is sometimes presented as two words, but is correctly one word since it is a character name. Instead of picking up where the novelisation Licence to Kill left off, Brokenclaw completely ignores the events and continues from Win. After expressing frustration over a lack of action after his mission with the Royal Navy. Instead, M orders Bond to take a vacation, Bond travels to Victoria, British Columbia where he is intrigued by Lee Fu-Chu, a half-Blackfoot, half-Chinese philanthropist who is known as Brokenclaw because of a deformed hand. The plan, dubbed Operation Jericho was a plan initially started by the Japanese. Brokenclaw escapes the raid only to be tracked down by Bond and Rushia, off the books, to the Chelan Mountains of Washington where Bond is challenged to a torture ritual known as o-kee-pa. In the end, the competition comes down to a fight between the two using bow and arrows, Brokenclaw barely misses Bond and in turn is shot through the neck by Bonds arrow. James Bond M Bill Tanner Ann Reilly Brokenclaw, Half Chinese, half Blackfoot and he received the name Brokenclaw because of a deformity in his left hand where his thumb is on the right rather than the left. Brokenclaw is a lord in San Francisco who has a large hold on the citys prostitution, gambling. He also works for CELD, the service of the Peoples Republic of China. Brokenclaw has managed to get his hands on a new technology that can detect submarine signatures which he plans to give to CELD, additionally, Brokenclaw also plans to cause economic disaster by bringing about the collapse of the dollar. Ultimately Brokenclaws plans are prevented by Bond and he later retreats to a getaway location in the Chelan Mountains of Washington. There he challenges Bond to a known as o-kee-pa. During this competition he is shot by Bond in the neck with an arrow, miss Sue Chi-Ho, Known to her friends as Chi-Chi Sue or simply Chi-Chi, she is on loan from the CIA. She can speak fluent Cantonese and was previously a U. S. Naval Intelligence officer and she accompanies Bond on Operation Curve posing as Jenny Mo, an operative codenamed Héloïse from the Peoples Republic of China who was sent to evaluate Brokenclaws submarine detection technology. Ed Rushia, A Commander with U. S. Naval Intelligence and he is tasked with following Bond and Chi-Chi to ensure their safety throughout their mission. After Bond and Chi-Chi disappear, Rushia searches California for them, after eventually picking up their signal he helps Bond escape a deathtrap in which Bond is thrown to Brokenclaws wolves
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The Man from Barbarossa
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The Man from Barbarossa, first published in 1991, was the eleventh novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Flemings secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton, more so than any previous Bond novel, The Man from Barbarossa acknowledges then-current world events. The story begins in January 1991 just prior to the end of the Persian Gulf War, Gardner also predicted that hardliners within the Soviet Union might attempt a coup against the government, which did occur later in 1991 but under different circumstances. The book also suggests that the Cold War was soon to end. John Gardner has stated on many occasions that of the 007 novels he wrote, additionally, Gardner believes that of all his novels, this was also Glidroses favourite as well, although the American publishers took a strong disliking to it. Critics had a reaction with many feeling it was one of Gardners lesser Bond novels. When the story begins, an elderly American living in New Jersey is kidnapped by a Russian terrorist group called the Scales of Justice. The man, Joel Penderek, was captured under the belief that he is Josif Voronstov, the group demands the Soviet government put the man on trial for his crimes, and begins murdering government officials when leaders refuse and are slow to react. The situation is more complicated as the CIA and the Mossad believe Voronstov to be a man located in Florida who they had under surveillance. Captain James Bond is partnered with an Israeli Mossad agent, Pete Natkowitz and they are assigned to work with Bory Stepakov and his assistant Nina Bibikova from the KGB to infiltrate the Scales of Justice posing as a TV crew so as to discover their real motive. Accomplishing this, they learn that the plans to sabotage perestroika. The man behind the Scales of Justice, General Yevgeny Yuskovich, is a cousin of Josif Voronstov who is identified as Joel Penderek, the trial was staged in order to shift focus away from Yuskovichs other plans. James Bond M Bill Tanner Miss Moneypenny Josif Voronstov, Deputy to Paul Blobel, said to have driven the victims to their deaths. Is actually Joel Penderek who is captured in Hawthorne, New Jersey by the Scales of Justice, Voronstov is put on a mock trial where it is discovered he is the cousin of General Yevgeny Yuskovich. General Yevgeny Yuskovich, Yuskovich is the leader of the Scales of Justice and he attempts to sabotage perestroika and supply Iraq with nuclear arms
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Never Send Flowers
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Never Send Flowers, first published in 1993, was the thirteenth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Flemings secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton, a murder in Switzerland of Laura March with MI5 connections follows assassinations in Rome, London, Paris & Washington. Left at each scene is a rose with marks of drops of blood on the petal, Bond is sent to investigate where he meets the lovely Swiss agent Fredericka von Grüsse whom he later calls Flicka when on better terms. Trails lead to an international stage actor, David Dragonpol. They also meet a widow and flower grower, Maeve Horton, illusion leads to murder as 007 pursues the wrong killer, in John Gardners twelfth addition to the James Bond series. While at Lauras funeral, Bond notices among the wreaths a perfect white rose, its petals tipped blood-red and his investigation reveals an identical rose and note at the funerals of four high-profile personalities, all assassinated with a week. With no group claiming responsibility for the deaths, Bond focuses on Lauras case as an entrée to tracking the murderous spree and he uncovers her recently dissolved love affair with the world-famous actor David Dragonpol, now an eccentric collector of theatre memorabilia living in a castle on the Rhine. Bond and Flicka go undercover to search the castle for clues and their joint discovery leads to a manhunt in which the identity of the serial killer is revealed. The action reaches its climax outside Paris, in EuroDisney
