Ian Fleming
By: Andrew Lycett
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9781250037985; 9781250037978
Subjects: Authorship; Biography; English Novelists; Journalists; Spy stories
Description: Sportsman, womanizer, naval commander, world-traveler, spy, the suave Old Etonian creator of the Cold War's archetypal secret agent was infinitely more complicated and interesting than his major fictional character, Agent 007, as Lycett shows in this full-length biography of Ian Fleming.
Notes: Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 458-461) and index.
Table of contents: title: Etonian rebel --; title: Foreign initiation --; title: "The world's worst stockbroker" --; title: Chocolate sailor --; title: Ian's Red Indians --; title: Newspaper romance --; title: Succombing to marriage --; title: Bond promotion --; title: Escaping the 'gab-fests' --; title: Jamaican attraction --; title: Emotional turmoil --; title: Film options --; title: Heart problems --; title: Kent and Wiltshire --; title: Name in lights.