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title: "Ian Fleming: The Complete Man"
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# Ian Fleming: The Complete Man

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Ian Fleming: The Complete Man

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Do you really, truly love James Bond?
  

*by S***H on Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2024*

I don't know about you, but I always assumed that the James Bond books (and, subsequently, the movies) were merely the product of a fevered imagination.  After all, they seemed colorfully detached from the grim, gritty realities of Pearl Harbor, the Dieppe Raid, Dien Bien Phu, the Chosin Reservoir, the Berlin Wall, the Son Tay Raid, the Tet Offensive, the '72 Olympic massacre, Nine-Eleven, October 7...all horrific intelligence failures with catastrophic consequences.  The intelligence 'community' (the CIA, MI5/6, the NKVD, the French DGSE, the German Nachrichtendiesnt, et alia) seemed about as incompetent in the real world as the Russian Navy was in the Russo-Japanese war.  It's not for nothing that the CIA is so often portrayed as a bunch of blundering, interfering fools.So who would have thought a stiff-upper-lip intelligence operative (Bond, James Bond) could become a believable superhero?  His creator, Ian Fleming, didn't just make it all up; Fleming was an intelligence officer himself, and not just some low-level desk jockey who never got his hands dirty.  True, he wasn't a field agent, but as a first-tier officer in British Naval Intelligence, he thought up--and oversaw the launch of--some dangerous, exciting and successful 'ops' during WW2.  Which is not to say that James Bond's adventures were authentic...or even realistic...but they were inspired by some real-world cloak-and-dagger adventures conceived and executed by Fleming and his merry men.Theoretically, Fleming could simply have told the tales of his outfit's actual exploits during the war, but he was prevented from telling the world about what really happened by some non-disclosure agreements that would make even Stormy Daniels blanch.  So he had to fictionalize the adventures he authored.  His training as a journalist (he was a successful correspondent for Reuters at one point in his career) served him well, and his stories are extremely well written.  So much so that, with little effort, they make excellent Silver Screen escapades.His latest biographer (he's had several), with the improbable name of Nicolas Shakespeare, has written a hefty (600-ish pages) book, "Ian Fleming: The Complete Man," which captures the writer, his career and the Zeitgeist in vivid detail.  His research is profound (the bibliography, sources and notes run to almost 200 pages), but it is the writing--clear, concise and literate--that make the book a wonderful read.  Well worth your time, interest and expense.  Highly recommended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Fascinating life story
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2024*

Enjoyed  the writing style.Enjoyed the apparent details of Ian's life.  Always wondered where James  Bond came from.Truly fascinated by the types of people in Fleming's life.  Were they all as crazy as described or reasonably normal people taken out of context.  Either way I feel sorry for Caspar.End result, I enjoyed the book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    good read
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2024*

very well written biography of Ian Fleming

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