Friday April 25, 2008 at 15:23
Fleming: Inside the Life of James Bond’s Creator
I had no idea Ian Fleming was such a renaissance man. Not only did he write the James Bond novels, earlier in his life he had worked as assistant to the British director of naval intelligence and later wrote a series of memorandums and letters to Col. William Donovan describing what a US intelligence agency should look like. In essence, he wrote up the blueprints for what would become the CIA.
After suffering a heart attack, he changed directions and wrote a book about a magical flying car for his son, Caspar. That book was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, later made into the classic 1968 children’s film.
