"The Facts of Death" continues the James Bond series made famous by Ian Fleming.
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After the death of Ian Fleming in 1964, Amis wrote a James Bond adventure, "Colonel Sun", which was published in 1968. He also wrote a study of the Bond books, "The James Bond Dossier".
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"The Crook Factory", a historically based thriller, features Ian Fleming as a character, and is set in the early 1940s, just prior to the first of Fleming's famous James Bond novels.
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Like his most famous creation, James Bond, Ian Fleming was once a spy himself, working in several capacities for British intelligence both before and during World War II. The son of conservative M.P. Major Valentine Fleming, he attended elite schools including Eton and Sandhurst before going abroad to study in Munich and Geneva. He saw his first action as a spy after working as a Moscow correspondent for Reuters. He continued to work in Moscow for "The Times" of London, though secretly under the more...
After the war, Fleming fulfilled a fantasy by building a home in Jamaica, a locale from which he would write many of his greatest novels. At the age of 44, he found himself in an affair with Lady Anne Rothmere, a married woman pregnant with his child. Once she divorced, she married Fleming and both of them remained in Jamaica, though they traveled often throughout their lives to England and America. His health began to deteriorate in the late 1950s, and in 1964, at the age of 56, he died of a heart attack. His only son, Casper, died from a drug overdose in 1975, and his wife passed away in 1981. Both are buried next to him Sevenhamptom, near England's border with Wales. less...
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05/28/1908 London, Southern England, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, British Isles, Western Europe,
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Best 007 I've read yet. Forget Harry Potter, give me Bond.