Original: That same year , he wrote The Book of Bond , or , Every Man His Own 007 , a tongue-in-cheek how-to manual about being a sophisticated spy , under the pseudonym '' Lt Col. William ( ` Bill ' ) Tanner '' , Tanner being M 's Chief of Staff in many of Fleming 's Bond novels .
Simplified: It was a tongue-in-cheek how-to manual about being a spy like Bond . He wrote it under the name '' Lt Col. William ` Bill ' Tanner '' .