James Bond continues to be a major influence on popular culture, with 22 official films of the franchise. Nevertheless, no matter how popular he is a hero to the screen, ignoring many of us – or may not realize – that the British agents began with a number of double-O as a literary character .
Ian Fleming was born into a privileged family, and even if sent to Eton to shine academically, but he did well in sport. After his release from officer training at Sandhurst, he entered the city for some time as a stockbroker, he was poor until he discovered his vocation as a journalist before the war, Reuters news agency. His first encounter with spyware can come when he visited Moscow in 1933 for the trial of six employees of Vickers, who sought to cover for espionage.
When the war began in 1939, Fleming was a member of Naval Intelligence, is increasing rapidly as commander, as assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence. There he participated in some of the most aggressive plans of the war, and met a number of figures he finally managed to attract, if the letter was the novels of James Bond.
After the war Fleming foreign manager for the Kemsley newspaper, the “Sunday Times” are counted as one of their titles. He also acquired land in Jamaica, where he later built his house Goldeneye, it was here, he ran away all the winter holidays on the cold in London.
He was writing in Jamaica, where he began in 1952, the first words of “Casino Royale”. He wanted to write “the spy story to end all spy stories” and was released a year later. On an annual basis from then, he has published a new book, even if sometimes it deviated form. Just after he published Goldfinger For Your Eyes Only, containing five short stories, The Spy Who was I writing in the context of the Bond-girl loved, and Octopussy & The Living Daylights, published posthumously , also short stories.
I learned the “Casino Royale” When I was about eight when I went through my parents’ library. My father was a pocket version, which I took in my room and swallowed as best I could. I enjoyed the action as Bond and did not know what to do in every situation he found himself. Although the literary figure is very different movies and shows often self-confidence, he determined how to do little, and his behavior at the gaming tables and in the best restaurants seemed surprisingly high.
Over the years, I sat through the books, if I could read on my hand, man. The library was a good source and very quickly I had to buy paperbacks new from our local market. The Bond novels have also often weak, especially his use of alcohol, tobacco and other substances. Yet he rarely uses the type of sophisticated gadget him out of trouble in the movies and get with ingenuity.
The novels are always worth reading for more than half a century has passed since the publication of Casino Royale. And they serve as reminders of the Cold War era, was long before the main perceived threat to the Western world terrorism.
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