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Construction in East Village, San Diego. A "Little Miller Act" is a U.S. state statute, based upon the federal Miller Act, that requires prime contractors on state construction projects to post bonds guaranteeing the performance of their contractual duties and/or the payment of their subcontractors and material suppliers.
After the publication of Casino Royale, Fleming used his annual holiday at his house in Jamaica to write another Bond story; [1] in total, between 1953 and 1966, two years after his death, twelve Bond novels and two short-story collections were published, with the last two books—The Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy and The Living ...
The relationship between Bond and Quarrel was based on a mutual assumption of Bond's superiority. [34] [35] Fleming described the relationship as "that of a Scots laird with his head stalker; authority was unspoken and there was no room for servility". [36] Fleming's villain was physically abnormal—as many of Bond's later adversaries were. [37]
From Russia, with Love is the fifth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond.Fleming wrote the story in early 1956 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica; at the time he thought it might be his final Bond book.
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Speaking of Bond's origins, Fleming said that "he was a compound of all the secret agents and commando types I met during the war", [37] although the author gave many of his own traits to the character. [37] Bond's tastes are often taken from Fleming's own, [38] as is some of his behaviour: Fleming used the casino to introduce Bond in his first ...
Once the mission is completed, Bond is offered the KCMG, but he refuses the honour and reflects on his own name, "a quiet, dull, anonymous name", which had been Fleming's aim when he first named the character. [36] [31] For the first time in the Bond canon, M's full name and title of "Admiral Sir Miles Messervy KCMG" was finally revealed. [37]
Thunderball is the ninth book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, and the eighth full-length Bond novel.It was first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 27 March 1961, where the initial print run of 50,938 copies quickly sold out.