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A fictional biography. Pearson begins the story with his discovery that James Bond exists; MI6 had assigned Ian Fleming to write novels based on the real agent. MI6 instructs Pearson to write 007's biography; he is introduced to a retired James Bond—who is in his fifties, yet healthy, sun-tanned, and with Honeychile Ryder, the heroine of Dr. No
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. It marked a change of format for Fleming, who had previously written James Bond stories only as full-length novels.
The original Young Bond short story "A Hard Man to Kill" written by Charlie Higson, is included in the companion book, Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier, which was released by Puffin Books on 29 October 2009. An extract from the story appears in the paperback edition of By Royal Command. It is the longest James Bond short story yet written.
It was the final James Bond strip for Gammidge, while McClusky returned to illustrating the strip in the 1980s. [94] The strip was reprinted by Titan Books in The James Bond Omnibus Vol. 2, published in 2011. [95] The novel was also serialised in the April, May and June 1964 issues of Playboy magazine, with illustrations from Daniel Schwartz.
James Bond is a fictional character created in 1953 by the journalist and writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in 12 novels and two short story collections. [1] The character has also been used in the long-running and third most financially successful English-language film series to date (behind only the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Star Wars ...
Live and Let Die is the second novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series of stories. Set in London, the United States 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 ...
The Name's Bond ... James Bond. The most legendary, iconic fictional spy. Even if you haven't seen a single one of the franchise's 26 films, you know who James Bond is.
Published in 1953, it is the first James Bond book, and it paved the way for a further eleven novels and two short story collections by Fleming, followed by numerous continuation Bond novels by other authors. The story concerns the British secret agent James Bond, gambling at the casino in Royale-les-Eaux to try and bankrupt Le Chiffre, the ...