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100 1  Shakespeare, Nicholas,|d1957-|eauthor. 
245 10 Ian Fleming:|bthe complete man /|cNicholas Shakespeare. 
250    First U.S. edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bHarper, an imprint of HarperCollins 
       Publishers,|c[2023] 
264  4 |c©2023 
300    xxix, 821 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations, genealogical tables ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Originally published in Great Britain in 2023 by Harvill 
       Secker, an imprint of Vintage. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 707-719) and 
       index. 
505 0  Introduction -- Part One. Prologue -- 'Lairn to say no, 
       laddie' -- Eve -- A stormy childhood -- Val -- Durnford --
       Eton -- Sandhurst -- Kitzbuhel -- Munich -- Geneva -- 
       Reuters -- Moscow -- Berlin -- Glamour boy -- The 
       collector -- A character sketch -- 'M' -- Mr. Secretan -- 
       Room -- Uncle John -- 'The most unscrupulous man in Spain'
       -- 'Completely outwitted' -- Little Bill -- Big Bill -- 
       Rodney Bond -- 'Special services' -- 30AU -- 'What a 
       nuisance sex is' -- Bill -- Globetrotter -- Drax's secrets
       -- Tambach -- The complete man -- Part Two. A puddle of 
       mud -- Shamelady Hall -- The foreign manager -- 'K' -- 
       Mercury -- The missing diplomats -- 'The shameful dream' -
       - Droopy -- Bunny -- 'Quite a step' -- Writing Bond -- A 
       wedding -- 'Tell me that story again' -- Two births -- The
       Bond formula -- 'Bloody intellectuals' -- The fast car 
       life -- 'That ass Bond' -- 'The greatest fiasco of all 
       time' -- Leaderkins -- 'Ian's black wife' -- A hideous 
       island -- 'Caviar for the general' -- A dinner -- The dark
       frontier -- 'Mink-coated Incubus' -- McClory -- The black 
       cloud -- The secrets of a man -- 'A regular skyscraper' --
       Archaeological heap -- Howls of laughter -- Caspar -- Bond
       fever -- Ashes -- The final green -- Epilogues -- List of 
       illustrations -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgemetns -- 
       Source notes -- Notes -- Index. 
520    A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his 
       enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with 
       unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers. 
520    "Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an 
       enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond 
       represents about ideas of masculinity, the British 
       national psyche and global politics has shifted over time,
       as has the interpretation of the life of his author. But 
       Fleming himself was more mysterious and subtle than 
       anything he wrote. Ian's childhood with his gifted brother
       Peter and his extraordinary mother set the pattern for his
       ambition to be 'the complete man', and he would strive for
       the means to achieve this 'completeness' all his life. 
       Only a writer for his last twelve years, his dramatic 
       personal life and impressive career in Naval Intelligence 
       put him at the heart of critical moments in world history,
       while also providing rich inspiration for his fiction. 
       Exceptionally well connected, and widely travelled, from 
       the United States and Soviet Russia to his beloved Jamaica,
       Ian had access to the most powerful political figures at a
       time of profound change." --|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Fleming, Ian,|d1908-1964. 
610 10 Great Britain.|bNaval Intelligence Division|xOfficials and
       employees|vBiography. 
650  0 Authors, English|y20th century|vBiography. 
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