So, this summer I decided to read all of the original Ian Fleming Bond novels. Here are the best, ... As an intelligence officer during World War II, Fleming watched first-hand America's transformation into a global superpower. He is both .... You could do worse than to start and end your Bond reading here. read more
These authors differ considerably! While Fleming himself was an Intelligence operative during the Second World War and the Bond character was inspired by a number of people he had come across, the Bond novels tend to be fantastic. read more
(Kingsley Amis, who wrote the first of the many post-Fleming Bond novels, which include installments by Sebastian Faulks and William Boyd and a subgenre of Young Bond novels by Charlie Higson, once said that the island in Dr. read more