Fleming's Bond

[...] Fifty years ago today, the world lost the creator of James Bond, Ian Fleming. Fleming suffered a fatal heart attack and died at the age of 56. When I was [...]

[...] of which is fascinating and informative. If you were looking at 320 pages of Ian Fleming and James Bond, that’s not what this book is. In fact, it is not until page 124 that Fleming even begins [...]

[...] renewed outbreak of civil disorder in 1969 only a very few ‘Irish’ thrillers were published. James Bond passed the island by, although in Ian Fleming’s From Russia With Love (1957) the chief [...]

[...] B49 of the Queen Mary and the change in the ships may account for the seeming discrepancy. James Bond makes a memorable entrance into the room of Wint and Kidd, surprising them by bursting through [...]

[...] novel, but you get the idea of the basket-type. Whichever car it ultimately was, once again, Ian Fleming was referencing a top of the line, classic car. [...]

[...] When James Bond first visits the office of Darko Kerim in From Russia With Love, Ian Fleming gives us a look around. Behind Kerim’s chair hangs an Oriental tapestry, and then on the walls [...]

[...] is James Bond’s own creation as outlined in Casino Royale. As with most things, Ian Fleming shared Bond’s tastes, he too enjoyed martinis as well as the other drinks in the [...]

[...] tail-coat of the old-time physician. The scene is thus set for us – we’re in Jamaica again. Ian Fleming sets the beginning of this story back in the place he knew so well. As you can see from the [...]

[...] While in Istanbul during From Russia With Love, James Bond stays “at the Kristal Palas on the heights of Pera.” He arrives, noting the “ [...]

[...] .” When he travels abroad, he immerses himself in the local food and drink. In From Russia With Love,  while Bond is traveling to his assignment, he has a bit of a scare on the plane, and [...]

[...] of a B.E.A. Viscount. Note the square-ended propellers. After his briefing with M in From Russia With Love, James Bond is sent to Istanbul aboard B.E.A. Flight 130 to Rome, Athens and Istanbul. The [...]

[...] I was looking back through the first part of From Russia With Love, and was going over the part where Donovan Grant got his training when he was assigned over [...]

[...] First Class Smoking Room aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth Following their dinner at the Veranda(h) grill James Bond and Tiffany Case head out for a [...]

[...] that Bond only half-jokingly made when asked what he wanted in a wife. They are on the RMS Queen Elizabeth and Bond is in his cabin. There is a knock at the door, and the waiter brings in a tray. [...]

[...] James Bond and Tiffany Case finally make it back to England after their adventures on the RMS Queen Elizabeth, Bond still has quite a bit work to catch up on to wrap things up on the job at the end of [...]

[...] RMS Queen Elizabeth Leaving New York Harbor. The climax of Diamonds are Forever takes place on the cruiseliner [...]

[...] While having lunch with Darko Kerim in From Russia With Love, Bond has kebabs, watches Kerim eat his raw meat, and they have a [...]

[...] When James Bond first meets Darko Kerim in From Russia With Love, the Head of Station T gets him settled. He pushed over a flat white [...]

[...] Bond is being driven through Istanbul from his hotel, the Krystal Palas to meet with Darko Kerim for the first time, he looks at the scenery around him, which he feels is marred somewhat. [...]

[...] When James Bond first visits the office of Darko Kerim in From Russia With Love, Ian Fleming gives us a look around. Behind Kerim’s chair hangs an [...]

[...] . Or at least that is what the advertising of that decade would’ve suggested. In Diamonds Are Forever, as Bond and Tiffany arrive (together but separate) at Idlewild, Tiffany shows that she [...]

[...] In the final chapter of Diamonds Are Forever, James Bond is completing his assignment at the same location in which the novel opened. [...]

[...] this relationship are reflected in Ian’s writing. (See the views of marriage as written in Diamonds Are Forever.) Ann came to hate and avoid Jamaica, which left Ian free to carry on affairs with the [...]

[...] in the Ian Fleming novels. His James Bond is more of a Taittinger man. It takes place in Diamonds Are Forever, and Bond doesn’t even make the decision. Tiffany Case decides to send him a message to [...]

[...] ZIS (Zavod Imeni Stalina) Saloon Automobile In From Russia With Love, Donovan Grant makes the 40-mile trip to the Simferopol airport in a “battered ZIS Saloon”, driven by one of [...]

[...] the shorter flights across Europe. It was certainly a step up from the Ilyushin 12 which Donovan Grant had flown to Moscow not many weeks before. Undated shot of interior seating of Viscount. [...]

[...] back through the first part of From Russia With Love, and was going over the part where Donovan Grant got his training when he was assigned over to SMERSH. Once he got through the Intelligence [...]

[...] Fleming’s From Russia With Love (1957) the chief executioner of SMERSH is a man called Donovan Grant, the illegitimate son of a German professional weight-lifter and a Southern Irish [...]

[...] We’re introduced to Tatiana Romanova in chapter eight of From Russia With Love. She is preparing her supper after a day at work, [...]

[...] In Chapter eight of From Russia With Love, Tatiana Romanova is in her Moscow apartment, reflecting on her life. Little does she realize that her life as [...]

[...] the Hollywood legend of Flynn either. Mr Parker notes that in From Russia With Love, when Tatiana Romanova tries to compliment Bond by telling him he looks like an American film star, Bond snaps back [...]

[...] tackled the Vesper Martini just yet, which is James Bond’s own creation as outlined in Casino Royale. As with most things, Ian Fleming shared Bond’s tastes, he too enjoyed martinis as well as the [...]

[...] what this book is. In fact, it is not until page 124 that Fleming even begins writing Casino Royale. All the background information is vital to the story of Ian Fleming and his creation, [...]

[...] for looks. The influence of Granville is also heavily felt in the character of Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale. [...]

[...] take down villains and save the world (and the girl). When people watched the 2006 version of Casino Royale, which was actually a pretty faithful, if modernized adaptation of Fleming’s first novel, [...]