Ian Fleming

...fee on only a serious version of the Casino Royale material. In 1985, Raymond Benson adapted Fleming's novel into a stage play, although the play was never produced. The play was submitted to a British agent who recommended that it not...

In this article: James Bond, Casino Royale, Le Chiffre, James Bond, Charles K. Feldman, MGM, Sean Connery, 007, and Raymond Benson

...Faulks wrote his Bond novel "as Ian Fleming." Perhaps instead of holding books on the warship, he should have been clutching the device he used to channel Fleming's ectoplasmic spirit. Chalk it up to channeling or an uncanny talent for...

In this article: Sebastian Faulks, Devil May Care, James Bond, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Kingsley Amis, James Bond, England, and Heroin

...SPECTRE was McClory's idea. Other sources, e.g. the article "Inside Thunderball" by Fleming biographer John Cork (and author of the DVD documentaries about Fleming and the films), claims Fleming created SPECTRE. Supporting this, Cork...

In this article: Thunderball, James Bond, Kevin McClory, Spectre, James Bond, Emilio Largo, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and Jack Whittingham

...he stole an Alfa Romeo, and he has driven a string of BMWs. In books, the commander has been even less loyal, in part because Mr Fleming's novels were supplemented with Bond-books by other authors - Kingsley Amis under the pseudonym Robert...

In this article: James Bond, Bentley, Aston Martin, Ulrich Bez, Commander Bond, Sebastian Faulks, Lincoln Continental, and John Gardner

...Benson and (once) Kingsley Amis. Now, to mark Fleming's centenary, we have yet another Bond adventure, this one by the English novelist Sebastian Faulks, best known for his 1993 bestseller "Birdsong." I was never a great fan of the Bond...

In this article: James Bond, Devil May Care, Sebastian Faulks, Bond movies, Heroin, and Miss Moneypenny

...Sun, by Kingsley Amis, (to which Pearson refers). As those books occur in the same time as Fleming's Bond novels, their being canonical with Fleming's books is debatable, yet Pan Books one British publisher of Bond novels, includes Pearson's...

In this article: John Pearson, James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007, James Bond, 007, Glidrose Publications, Pan Books, Sidgwick & Jackson, Colonel Sun, and The Life of Ian Fleming

The Facts of Death The Facts of Death, first published in 1998, was the third novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond (including Benson's novelization of Tomorrow Never Dies). Carrying the Glidrose...

In this article: James Bond, The Facts of Death, Hodder & Stoughton, Raymond Benson, United Kingdom, and Greece

...in the films, it is always highlighted by the underscored romantic tension between her and Bond (something that is virtually nonexistent in Ian Fleming's novels, though somewhat more apparent in the Bond novels of John Gardner and Raymond...

In this article: Miss Moneypenny, Bond films, Maurice Buckmaster, Bond film, Lois Maxwell, and Diamonds Are Forever

...posthumously between 1964 and 1966. Following Ian Fleming's death in 1964, many continuation novels by Kingsley Amis, John Pearson , John Gardner , Raymond Benson, and Charlie Higson were published. Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman's...

In this article: Bond film, Raymond Benson, Kingsley Amis, and Charlie Higson