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Ian Fleming is the creator of the fictional spy James Bond, agent 007, who appeared in twelve bestselling novels and two short story collections between 1953 and 1966, and who features as the central character in a billion-dollar movie franchise spanning forty years. Bond is a famously overdrawn character, who smokes and drinks too much, exercises too little, and yet is irresistible to women, and able to withstand near superhuman levels of physical punishment. He is most often deployed by the British secret service to investigate and prevent criminal acts of global significance. These are planned by agents of the Russian intelligence agency, SMERSH, or by ruthless criminal masterminds plotting world domination.
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Routledge, C. (2020). Ian Fleming (1908–1964), 1953: Casino Royale. In: Miskimmin, E. (eds) 100 British Crime Writers. Crime Files. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-31902-9_50
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