The Ian Fleming Novels and Short Stories

“I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink.”
—James Bond

Casino Royale (1953)
Live And Let Die (1954)
Moonraker (1955)
Diamonds Are Forever (1956)
From Russia With Love (1957)
Doctor No (1958)
Goldfinger (1959)
For Your Eyes Only (1960)
Thunderball (1961)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1962)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963)
You Only Live Twice (1964)
The Man With The Golden Gun (1965)
Octopussy and the Living Daylights (1966)
Ian Flemings Goldplatetypewriter Royal Quiet de Luxe.

Over the past 15 years, James Bond’s bar choices have been parsed down to exactly three drinks: vodka martinis (shaken, not stirred), champagne, and whiskey on the rocks. This strict formula has been in place since The Living Daylights. But it wasn’t always that way.

The literary 007 (and by extension, the film version) takes his drinking habits from his creator, Ian Fleming. Bond often shares a love for cocktails such as gin and tonics or stingers that would strike most of us as highly atypical. According to biographer Andrew Lycett, Fleming preferred gin and vermouth, and also liked the exotic drinks found around his winter home in Jamaica. “Fleming himself really didn’t hold his drink very well. More than two glasses of wine at lunch time and he was done for.”

According to notes from the archives of Random House, Fleming’s publisher, this concern with sobriety found its way into the novels: “Drink relaxed Bond. His only rule was not to get drunk but perhaps for 20 years he had hardly gone to bed cold sober. His other rules were not to drink at midday or after dinner, and never to drink liqueurs.” Why does 007 prefer his martinis “shaken and not stirred”? Lycett theorizes that Fleming thought stirring a drink diminished its flavors.

Interestingly, Fleming’s novels reverse the simplification trend found in the films. In the initial books, the drinks are often window dressing, a device to show that Bond is indeed eating dinner in a swank restaurant or is traveling in a foreign country. But as the series progresses, the drinks and the circumstances surrounding them become increasingly more complex, more integral to the plot. This can be attributed to Fleming’s maturation as a writer, his increased financial success, and his failing health. The latter found voice in the air of foreboding and melancholy that pervades the later novels, such as the opening chapters of both Goldfinger and Thunderball, where Bond’s drinking leads to ruminations on health and mortality.

Obviously, Fleming used alcoholic beverages to emphasize the exotic locations to which Bond travels, with 007 often imbibing local wines or liquors. Some are very specific, such as when he drinks raki in Turkey or saké in Japan. Some are more general: when he’s in the Western Hemisphere Bond usually has bourbon, and in the Eastern, he often drinks scotch. Above all, he prefers “solid” drinks.

There are many reasons for James Bond’s appeal, including foreign locales, beautiful women and extreme danger. But a large part is certainly his love for the finer things (echoing the growth of our modern consumer culture), from clothes and cars to good food and well-made drinks. If you haven’t read Fleming’s novels, you might be surprised at the James Bond revealed within: a bored and somewhat cynical civil servant who sometimes drops his jacket on the floor. But as this section tries to show, you’ll also encounter a man who definitely knows what he wants, especially at cocktail hour. And if we ourselves live vicariously through 007, at least we can have a few great martinis on the way.

The Man with the Golden typewriter.
Mannen med den Gyllene skrivmaskinen

Ian Fleming fullbordade sin första James Bond-bok, Casino Royale, eller rättare sagt den första versionen av boken, i mars 1952. Detta skulle firas!
Fleming lät beställa en förgylld skrivmaskin från USA. Det var inte vilken skrivmaskin som helst, utan den exklusiva modellen Royal Quiet de Luxe, som kostade honom hela 174 dollar.

Flemings vänner tyckte att det var ett onödigt extravagant inköp. Han svarade skämtsamt i ett brev att han nu hade bett "sina personliga getägare i Marocko" att framställa "1000 ark vellum-papper" som han sedan planerade att bestätta med "diamanter från Cartier".

Ian Fleming skrev alla sina följande Bondböcker på sin gyllene skrivmaskin i sitt hus Goldeneye på Jamaica.

1995 såldes den gyllene skrivmaskinen på auktion genom Christie's i London. Den gick för 50 000 pund, mångdubbelt mer än utropspriset, till en anonym köpare.

Det har gått rykten att den anonyme köparen var ingen mindre än Pierce Brosnan, men Brosnan har själv förnekat detta, och den uppgiften stämmer alltså inte.

Ian Flemings Goldplatetypewriter Royal Quiet de Luxe.
1952 beställde en gyllene skrivmaskin från The Royal Typewriter Company i New York.

Hur kom prefixet 007 till?

Ian Fleming valde att ge agent James Bond kodnumret 007.
Vad betyder det? - vi ser namnet och numret som ett och samma begrepp: James Bond 007.

Men varifrån tog Ian Fleming numret egentligen? Ja, det är det faktiskt ingen som kan säga med säkerhet. Fleming fick förstås denna fråga i intervjuer och han brukade svara att han hade fått idén till numret 007 från sina år i säkerhetstjänsten under kriget. Så här svarade Fleming i en intervju 1963:

"Jag knyckte den idén. När jag var i säkerhetstjänsten i början av kriget inleddes alla topphemliga signaler med 00-prefixet. Detta ändrades förstås senare av säkerhetsskäl. Jag mindes det här prefixet och jag beslöt att låna det till Bond för att få hans jobb att verka mer intressant, och ge honom en licens att döda. I verkligheten kan förstås vilken spion som helst behöva döda i tjänsten och gör det antagligen också, oavsett licens eller ej."

Sedan finns det andra teorier också. En teori som då och då förs fram är att Fleming hade snappat upp numret 007 från en titel på en novell av den berömde brittiske författaren och Nobelpristagaren Rudyard Kipling (mest känd för "Djungelboken"). Kipling skrev en novell som faktiskt hette ".007", som handlar om en ångmaskin och ingår i hans novellsamling The Days Work, som utgavs 1898. Ångmaskinen har i novellen numret 007, så novellen har inget alls med agenter eller så att göra.

Man vet att Fleming tyckte om Kiplings verk, så det är inte alls omöjligt, om än litet långsökt, att numret 007 kan ha inspirerats av en av dennes noveller.
Denna teori har även diskuterats i Kipling Society:s medlemstidskrift.

En tredje tes, är kanske , visas upp i tv-filmen Goldeneye, som handlar om Flemings liv. Charles Dance, känd som Claus i For Your Eyes Only spelar Fleming. I den här filmen får vi i en sekvens se Fleming gå längs en hotellkorridor. Han passerar rum nr 1007. Det är bara det att en av skruvarna som håller 1:an på plats har lossnat, så att den hänger på trekvart. På dörren står: 007... och vi kan se Fleming stanna till och sedan gå vidare.

Det finns även en fjärde teori, nämligen att Fleming skulle ha inspirerats av numret 007 på en busslinje på Jamaica. Den busslinjen skulle ha passerat Goldeneye, och Fleming skulle då ha lagt märke till att siffrorna 007 såg tuffa ut, ingen vet säkert hur det egentligen gick till...

James Bond, ornitolog

När Ian Fleming skulle skriva sin första agentroman, var han ute efter ett bra namn på sin agent, "så trist som möjligt". En dag föll hans blick på en av böckerna i sin bokhylla, "Birds of the West Indies" av James Bond. Fleming sade att det var ett perfekt namn: kort, oromantiskt men mycket maskulint.
I ett brev till ornitologens hustru erbjöds Bond som kompensation fri dispositionsrätt till namnet Ian Fleming, som han kunde ge till någon ovanligt hemsk fågel.

Vem var då den James Bond som fick släppa till sitt namn till världens mest berömde agent?

Han var en tillbakadragen amerikansk ornitolog från Philadelphia, vars stora intresse var fåglarna på de västindiska öarna. Bonds viktigaste verk, som fortfarande kommer ut i nya upplagor, heter "Birds of the West Indies. An account with full descriptions of all the birds known to occur or to have occurred on the West Indian Islands" (1936).

Flera av fågelarterna i Västindien riskerade att utrotas, varför Bond gjorde omfattande fältstudier under många år i området. Han lyckades hitta 170 av 174 tidigare skådade fåglar.

1933 framförde James Bond teorin att de flesta västindiska fåglarna genetiskt tillhörde norra Amerika, utom de på Trinidad och Tobago. En David Lack slog 40 år senare fast denna teori i boken "Island biology", och myntade där uttrycket Bond´s Line för gränsen mellan Trinidad, Tobago och området norr därom.

James Bond avled 1989. Han blev 90 år gammal.

James Bond, the Author The Origin of the Name James Bond

James Bond, the Author
The Origin of the Name James Bond

"I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could think of. James Bond seemed perfect."
-Ian Fleming

While he may be the world's most famous, glamorous secret agent, let's face it, his name is pretty dull. In a way it is fitting, Fleming achieved exactally what he wanted to with the name. He actually found it sitting on his bookshelf in the author of a book entitled "Bird's Of The West Indies." And like that, history was made!

Birds of the West Indies bok
James Bond (January 4, 1900 – February 14, 1989) was a leading American ornithologist whose name was appropriated by writer Ian Fleming for his fictional spy James Bond.

"A superb gambling scene, a torture scene which still haunts me, and, of course a beautiful girl" Raymond Chandler

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(from the original jacket copy of the Jonathan Cape edition)

"The dry riffle of the cards and the soft whirr of the roulette wheel, the sharp call of the croupiers and the feverish mutter of a crowded casino hide the thick voice at Bond's ear which says, "I will count up to ten."

Anyone who has ever gambled will find this tense and sometimes horrifying story of espionage and high gambling irresistible. So will readers who have never entered a casino. Connoisseurs of realistic fiction will particularly note the careful documentation of the Secret Service background, the chilling portrait of Le Chiffre, the authentic menace of SMERSH, and the sensual appeal of the girl in 'soie sauvage'."

"Introducing James Bond: charming, sophisticated, handsome; chillingly ruthless and very deadly. This, the first of Fleming's tales of agent 007, finds Bond on a mission to neutralise a lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called simply 'Le Chiffre' - by ruining him at the baccarat table and forcing his Soviet spymasters to 'retire' him. It seems that lady luck is taken with James - Le Chiffre has hit a losing streak. But some people just refuse to play by the rules, and Bond's attraction to a beautiful female agent leads him to disaster and an unexpected saviour."

LIVE AND LET DIE (1954) by Ian Fleming

"Containing passages which for sheer excitement have not been surpassed by any modern writer of this kind" Times Literary Supplement

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(from the original jacket copy of the Jonathan Cape edition)

"In the higher ranges of Secret Service work the actual facts in many cases were in every respect equal to the most fantastic inventions of romance and melodrama. Tangle within tangle, plot and counter-plot, ruse and treachery, cross and double-cross, true agent, false agent, double agent, gold and steel, the bomb, the dagger and the firing party, were interwoven in many a texture so intricate as to be incredible and yet true. The Chief and the High Officers of the Secret Service revelled in these subterranean labyrinths, and pursued their task with cold and silent passion." SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL in Thoughts and Adventures.

It is in these higher ranges of Secret Service work that James Bond operates on the very outside edge of danger, and, in this story, among hazards no reader will easily forget. "

Ian Fleming's first book Casino Royale, an account of the gambling assignment that nearly cost Bond his life, was described as 'the best thriller since the war'.

Live and Let Die, a breath-taking hunt for secret treasure that takes Bond to Harlem, Florida and Jamaica is still better."

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"Beautiful, fortune-telling Solitaire is the prisoner (and tool) of Mr Big - master of fear, artist in crime and Voodoo Baron of Death. James Bond has no time for superstition - he knows that Big is also a top SMERSH operative and a real threat. More than that, after tracking him through the jazz joints of Harlem, to the Everglades and on to the Caribbean, 007 has realised that he is one of the most dangerous men that he has ever faced. And no one, not even the enigmatic Solitaire, can be sure how their battle of wills is going to end."

MOONRAKER (1955) by Ian Fleming Ian Fleming

"Irresistibly readable" Observer
"Fleming is splendid; he stops at nothing" New Statesman

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(from the original jacket copy of the Jonathan Cape edition)

"It was Monday and a routine day for James Bond in the quiet office at the headquarters of the Secret Service. Idly he ticked off his number - 007- on the charge sheets of the Top Secret files that had come in over the week-end. He was bored. Mondays were hell.

Then, suddenly, the red telephone screamed in the quiet room. 'M wants you.' And Bond walked out of his office and into the assignment that was to put even his adventures in France (Casino Royale) and Harlem and Jamaica (Live and Let Die) in the shade.

And yet what was to happen to him was to happen out of the clear blue skies of early summer, here, in England. As it might have been yesterday. Or, as it might be, some dreadful tomorrow."

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"At M's request, Bond has gone up against Sir Hugo Drax at the card table, on a mission to teach the millionaire and head of the Moonraker project a lesson he won't forget, and prevent a scandal engulfing Britain's latest defence system. But there is more to the mysterious Drax than simply cheating at cards. And once Bond delves deeper into goings-on at the Moonraker base he discovers that both the project and its leader are something other than they pretend to be..."

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1956) by Ian Fleming

"Probably the most forceful and driving writer of thrillers in England" Raymond Chandler

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(from the original jacket copy of the Jonathan Cape edition)

"James Bond surveyed the glittering diamonds that lay scattered across the red leather surface of M's desk and wondered what it was all about.

Then M took the pipe out of his mouth and dryly gave Bond details of the assignment of which even M was afraid. And Bond walked out of the Headquarters of the Secret Service and into his greatest adventure.

Greater than Casino Royale? More terrible than Live and Let Die? More hazardous than Moonraker?

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"Meet Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde; the kind of girl you could get into a lot of trouble with - if you wanted. She stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa via London to the States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Bond is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter, the ice maiden herself...."

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1957)

"Mr Fleming is in a class by himself... immense detail, elaborate settings and continually mounting tension, flavoured with sex, brutality and sudden death" Daily Mail
"Adds the pleasures of a credible plot to the excitement of extreme violence. Highly polished, irresistible" Sunday Times

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(from the original jacket copy of the Jonathan Cape edition)

"SMERSH is the Soviet organ of vengeance - of interrogation, torture and death - and James Bond is dedicated to the destruction of its agents wherever he finds them.

But, in its turn, the cold eye of SMERSH focuses on James Bond and far away in Moscow a trap is laid for him - a death trap with an enticing lure.

Ian Fleming takes us into the headquarters of SMERSH. We watch Bond's assassination being minutely devised. We meet the executioner. We sit in at the planning. We inspect the lure.

Then the lever is pulled in Moscow, and in London, Istanbul and Paris the wheels begin to turn.

Ian Fleming's other Secret Service thrillers - Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds are Forever - may have made your pulse race.

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"Every major foreign government has a file on James Bond, British secret agent. Now, Russia's deadly SMERSH organisation has targeted him for elimination - they have the perfect bait in the irresistible Tatiana Romanova. Her mission is to lure Bond to Istanbul and seduce him while her superiors handle the rest. But when Bond walks willingly into the trap, a game of cross and double-cross ensues - with Bond both the stakes and the prize."

DR. NO. (1958) by Ian Fleming

"Masterful, beautifully written" Raymond Chandler, The Sunday Times
"Fleming, by reason of his plausability, sense of pace, brilliant descriptive powers and superb imagination, provides sheer entertainment." Spectator

"M hasn't forgiven James Bond for the negligence on his last assignment that nearly cost Bond his life. Brusquely, almost contemptuously, he tosses Bond a time-wasting, shabby little case in the Caribbean. It will really be a holiday on an island in the sun - convalescence.

Angrily Bond accepts his orders. He flies off to Jamaica. The sun shines, the palm trees wave, the calypsos throb.

But on the horizon a cloud forms. It is no bigger than a man's hand - an articulated steel hand - the hand of Dr. No!

This, the sixth of Ian Fleming's Secret Service thrillers, will, as did the others, grip the reader with a taut, suave, sensual stranglehold. "

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"Dr. No, a sinister recluse with mechanical pincers for hands and a sadistic fascination with pain, holds James Bond firmly in his steely grasp. Bond and Honey Rider, his beautiful and vulnerable girl Friday, have been captured trespassing on Dr No's secluded Caribbean island. Intent on protecting his clandestine operations from the British Secret Service, Dr No sees an opportunity to dispose of an enemy and further his diabolical research. Soon, Bond and Rider are fighting for their lives in a murderous game of Dr. No's choosing."

GOLDFINGER (1959) by Ian Fleming

"Nobody does this sort of thing as well as Mr Fleming." Sunday Times
"Mr Fleming is the best thriller writer since Buchan" Evening Standard

"Goldfinger, the man who loved gold, said, 'Mr Bond, it was a most evil day for you when you first crossed my path. If you had then found an oracle to consult, the oracle would have said to you "Mr Bond keep away from Mr Auric Goldfinger. He is a most powerful man. If Mr Goldfinger wished to crush you, he would only have to turn over in his sleep to do so.'

With the lazy precision of Fate, this, Ian Fleming's longest narrative of secret service adventure, brings James Bond to grips with the most powerful criminal the world has ever known - Goldfinger, the man who had planned the 'Crime de la Crime'.

Le Chiffre, Mr Big, Sir Hugo Drax, Jack Spang, Rosa Klebb, Dr No - and now the seventh adversary, a Goliath of Crime."

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"Auric Goldfinger: cruel, clever, frustratingly careful. A cheat at Canasta and a crook on a massive scale in everyday life. The sort of man James Bond hates. So it's fortunate that Bond is the man charged by both the Bank of England and MI5 to discover what this, the richest man in the country, intends to do with his ill-gotten gains - and what his connection is with SMERSH, the feared Soviet spy-killing corps. But once inside this deadly criminal's organisation, 007 finds that Goldfinger's schemes are more grandiose - and lethal - than anyone could have imagined. Not only is he planning the greatest gold robbery in history, but mass murder as well..."

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (1960) by Ian Fleming

"Mr Fleming's licensed assassin is in good form. Few men can have been able to mix business with pleasure so successfully as Bond." The Times Literary Supplement

"The destruction of a Russian hideout at SHAPE head quarters near Paris; the planned assassination of a Cuban thug in America; the tracking of a heroin ring from Rome to Venice and beyond; sudden and ghastly death in the Seychelles islands and, in between, a story of love and hate in Bermuda.

These are five episodes in a short span of tough life - the life of James Bond, agent number 007 in the Secret Service."

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"Sudden emergencies and beautiful girls who aren't quite what they seem are the stock-in-trade of James Bond. And when 007 is on the case there's only one thing you can be sure of - the result will be thrilling. Whether he's dealing with the assassination of a Cuban thug in America, the destruction of an international heroin ring, or sudden death in the Seychelles, Bond gets the job done. In his own suave and unmistakable style."

THUNDERBALL (1961) by Ian Fleming

"Good living, sex and violent action - a highly polished performance, an ingenious plot and plenty of excitement." Times Literary Supplement

"Thunderball presents the blueprint for a monstrous crime that could be just around the corner in history.

James Bond is in disgrace. His monthly medical report is critical of the high living that is ruining his health, and M packs him off for a fortnight to a nature-cure clinic to be tuned-up to his former pitch of exceptional fitness. Furiously, Bond undergoes the shame of the carrot juice and nut cutlet regime - and thereby minutely upsets the plan of SPECTRE, a new adversary, more deadly, more ruthless even than Smersh.

Who is SPECTRE? What are its plans? Alas, the organisation is all to realistically described, its plans all too contemporary for comfort. Of all James Bond's adversaries, the Chief of SPECTRE casts the darkest shadow."

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"When a stranger arrives in the Bahamas, the locals barely turn their heads, seeing another ex-pat with money to burn at the casino tables. But James Bond has more than money on his mind; he's got less than a week to find two stolen atom bombs hidden among the coral reefs. While acting the playboy, Bond meets Domino, sultry plaything of secretive treasure hunter Emilio Largo. In getting close to this gorgeous Italian girl, Bond hopes to learn more about Largo's hidden operation."

THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1962) by Ian Fleming (with Vivienne Michel)

"Ian Fleming keeps you riveted. His narrative pulls with the smooth power of Bond's Thunderbird" Sunday Telegraph

"Vivienne Michel writes: 'The spy who loved me was called James Bond and the night on which he loved me was a night of screaming terror in The Dreamy Pines Motor Court, which is in the Adirondacks in the north of New York State.

'This is the story of who I am and how I came through a nightmare of torture and the threat of rape and death to a dawn of ecstasy. It's all true - absolutely. Otherwise Mr Fleming certainly would not have risked his professional reputation in acting as my co-author and persuading his publishers, Jonathan Cape, to publish my story. Ian Fleming has also kindly obtained clearance for certain minor breaches of The Official Secrets Act that were necessary to my story."

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"Vivienne Michel is in trouble. Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court. A far cry from the privileged world she was born to, the motel is also the destination of two hardened killers - the perverse Sol Horror and the deadly Sluggsy Morant. When a coolly charismatic Englishman turns up, Viv, in terrible danger, is not just hopeful, but fascinated. Because he is James Bond, 007; the man she hopes will save her, the spy she hopes will love her."

ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (1963) by Ian Fleming

"Bond is what every man would like to be, and what every woman would like to have between her sheets" Raymond Chandler, Sunday Times

" 'It was one of those Septembers when it seemed that the summer would never end.'

But it did end and winter came in a lethal welter of mystery, bloodshed and multiple death amidst the snow.

This, the eleventh chapter in the biography of James Bond, is one of the longest. It is also the most enthralling.

(from the recent Penguin publication)
"When Bond rescues a beautiful, reckless girl from self-destruction, he finds himself with a lead on one of the most dangerous men in the world - Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE. In the snow-bound fastness of his Alpine base, Blofeld is conducting research that could threaten the safety of the world. To thwart the evil genius, Bond must get himself and the vital information he has gathered out of the base and keep away from SPECTRE's agents. Which may require the help of someone who can handle herself at high speed."

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (1964) by Ian Fleming

"A sensational imagination" Sunday Times
"Instructive and entertaining" Cyril Connolly

"When Ernst Stavro Blofeld blasted into eternity the girl whom James Bond had married only hours before, the heart, the zest for life, went out of Bond. Incredibly from being a top agent of the Secret Service, he had gone to pieces, was even on the verge of becoming a security risk. M is persuaded to give him one last chance - an impossible mission far removed from his usual duties - and Bond leaves for Japan.

There, coming under the orders of the formidable 'Tiger' Tanaka, Head of the Japanese Secret Service, the Koan-Chosa-Kyoku, he is indeed subjected to the shock treatment his condition demanded.

Shock treatment? The reader will also be subjected to it in full measure in this, perhaps the most bizarre and doom-fraught of all James Bond's adventures."

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"Bond, a shattered man after the death of his wife at the hands of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, has gone to pieces as an agent, endangering himself and his fellow operatives. M, unwilling to accept the loss of one of his best men, sends 007 to Japan for one last, near-impossible mission. But Japan proves to be Bond's downfall, leading him to a mysterious residence known as the 'Castle of Death' where he encounters an old enemy revitalised. All the omens suggest that this is the end for the British agent and, for once, even Bond himself seems unable to disagree."

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (1965) by Ian Fleming

Plot Summary
(from the recent Penguin edition)
"A brainwashed James Bond has tried - and failed - to assassinate M, his boss. Now Bond has to prove he is back on form and can be trusted again. 'All' 007 has to do is kill one of the most deadly freelance hit-men in the world - one Paco 'Pistols' Scaramanga, the Man with the Golden Gun. But despite his licence to kill, 007 is no assassin, and, on finding Scaramanga in the sultry heat of Jamaica, he decides to infiltrate the killer's criminal co-operative - and realises that he will have to take him out as swiftly as possible. Or 007 might just be the next on a long list of British Secret Service numbers that the Man with the Golden Gun has retired..."

OCTOPUSSY AND THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (1966) by Ian Fleming

"Ian Fleming traces the intricacies of counter-espionage with all the efficient authority of 007's own secret reporters." Sunday Times

"From Jamaica, paradise of sunshine and exotic fish, to Berlin, cold grim city of stealth, James Bond pursues two strangely heroic enemies of the Secret Service. The first is a dying major whose dwindling hoard of gold conceals an act of treachery, and the second an assassin whose identity disturbs Bond's deadly aim.

These two stories, written in 1961 and 1962, were among those composed by Ian Fleming while he was writing the incomparable series of James Bond thrillers. The first collection of stories appeared in 1959 as For Your Eyes Only; a further collection which he had planned to publish was never completed."

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"For James Bond, British secret agent 007, international espionage can be a dirty business. Whether it is tracking down a wayward major who has taken a deadly secret with him to the Caribbean; identifying a top Russian agent secretly bidding for a Fabergé egg in a Sotheby's auction room; or ruthlessly gunning down an unlikely assassin in sniper's alley between East and West Berlin, Bond always closes the case - with extreme prejudice."

James Bond Creator; Ian Fleming to be played by James McAvoy

Ian Flemings (James Bond) liv blir filmatiserad igen! Ian Fleming

CASINO ROYALE (1953) by Ian Fleming The Life of Ian Fleming (1908-1964) Page 2

The Ian Fleming Novels and Short Stories

James Bond, the Author
The Origin of the Name James Bond

LIVE AND LET DIE (1954) by Ian Fleming

MOONRAKER (1955) by Ian Fleming Ian Fleming

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1956) by Ian Fleming

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1957)

DR. NO. (1958) by Ian Fleming

GOLDFINGER (1959) by Ian Fleming

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (1960) by Ian Fleming

THUNDERBALL (1961) by Ian Fleming

THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1962) by Ian Fleming (with Vivienne Michel)

ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (1963) by Ian Fleming

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (1964) by Ian Fleming

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (1965) by Ian Fleming

OCTOPUSSY AND THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (1966) by Ian Fleming