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Inventing James Bond

How author and former intelligence officer Ian Fleming created the British super-spy

The author Ian Fleming created the fictional super-spy, James Bond, in the 1950s. Fleming, a former journalist and stockbroker, had served in British naval intelligence during the Second World War. Using interviews with Fleming and his friends from the 大象传媒 archive, Alex Last explores how elements of James Bond were drawn from Ian Fleming's own adventurous life.
Photo: Ian Lancaster Fleming, British author and creator of the James Bond character, in 1958. (Getty Images)

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