This glittering companion provides an authoritative new look at the gold standard of glamorous adventure spy fiction.

Featuring a wealth of previously unseen documents from Ian Flemings files it offers rare insight into where reality ends and the adventures begin.

Everyone is a Bond fan but how many of us truly know Ian Flemings brilliant original creation This is the irresistible and definitive illustrated passport to his life and times.

For over half a century the Bond novels have entertained millions around the world.

But no book has used the Fleming archive to explore the threedimensional world of this quintessential secret agent revealing what inspired it and who inspired him.

Complete authoritative and entertaining it will take you on a journey through myth and reality from Moscow to Mayfair the bedroom to the warroom the casino to the villians lair.