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Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 16 April 1962: 221 pp: A young woman is alone, working at a motel when two thugs, hired by the owner, turn up to burn it down for the insurance. They are about to rape the woman when Bond turns up and stops them. Later that night, Bond is attacked, but kills both the thugs. [21] On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Ian Fleming
Moonraker is the third novel by the British author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond.It was published by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1955 and featured a cover design conceived by Fleming.
In 1956, Ian Fleming hired literary agent Peter Janson-Smith to handle the foreign translation rights in the James Bond novels. [2] He was the literary consultant and chairman of Ian Fleming Publications until 2001. Today, the Fleming family-owned Ian Fleming Publications administers all Fleming's literary works.
Gilt-edged securities, also referred to as gilts, are bonds issued by the UK Government. The term is of British origin, and then referred to the debt securities issued by the Bank of England on behalf of His Majesty's Treasury , whose paper certificates had a gilt (or gilded ) edge, hence the name.
The Life of Ian Fleming: Creator of James Bond. London: Pan Books. Rankin, Nicholas (2011). Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-25062-2. Shakespeare, Nicholas (2023). Ian Fleming: The Complete Man. London: Harvill Secker. ISBN 978-1787302419.
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In 1953, Casino Royale was published and the Fleming's only child together was born who they named Casper. After the success of his first novel, Fleming wrote one Bond novel per year. In 1962, Fleming had a heart attack. Ann Fleming “confiscated Ian's typewriter” and so Fleming wrote by hand a story for his son, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.