Review: Out of Touch With History
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 10, 2013
This was set in 1940 after France fell and the French fleet was up for grabs.  Fleming was the do all know all super secret Brit Agent who would fix the problem.  OK so far.  But, as we rocked along in 1940, there appeared jets, helicopters, V-1s and V-2s.  OK, there goes any hope of a thread of reality as none of that stuff was around in 1940.  Oh, yeah, I really don't think anyone is as interested as the author in the style, color, make and model of each character's current outfit.  That added to the tedium of this work.  I was sucked in by this being a described book on Fleming's WWII exploits, not the author's ideas of what they were.  I'm betting that Comdr. Fleming was as dashing as Bond and as he is in this book but lets stick at least somewhat to the facts as they were in the time of this narrative and leave off the clothes horse descriptions please.  Overall, a less than satisfying and somewhat juvenile book.  Had it been a free borrow It might have been worth an evening's read.  As it was, just money up a well dressed wild hog's nether quarters.