Oliver Buckton is professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of Espionage in British Fiction and Film since 1900: The Changing Enemy and Counterfeit Spies: How World War II Intelligence Operations Shaped Cold War Spy Fiction. He lives in Delray Beach, Florida.

Ian Fleming’s character James Bond is a mainstay of Anglo-American popular culture. Buckton asserts that whereas James Bond is not necessarily Fleming's alter-ego, as some biographers suggest, the people, events, and locations of Fleming's life were the source material for his novels.... Buckton makes a compelling argument that Fleming’s Bond novels reveal much about the heyday and decline of Britain’s imperial vistas.

• AcknowledgmentsList of PhotosAuthor’s NoteForewordPrologue: A Fateful Meeting1 Spyway: The Early Life of Ian Fleming2 Escape in the Alps: Ian Fleming and James Bond in Kitzbühel3 From Moscow to Ebury Street: Fleming in the 1930s4 My Man Godfrey: Ian Fleming in Naval Intelligence5 After the War Was Over: Goldeneye and Kemsley House6 The Spy Story to End All Spy Stories: Casino Royale7 The Edge of Danger: Thrilling Environments of Ian Fleming8 “Such Stubborn Retreats”: The Bondian Worlds of Jamaica and Kent9 Fleming’s Women, Bond’s “Girls”10 Promoting Bond: Fleming, Mass Culture, and the Movies11 From Fleming, with Love: Travel Writings and Nonfiction12 The Iron CrabNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Oliver Buckton is professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of Espionage in British Fiction and Film since 1900: The Changing Enemy and Counterfeit Spies: How World War II Intelligence Operations Shaped Cold War Spy Fiction. He lives in Delray Beach, Florida.

Ian Fleming’s character James Bond is a mainstay of Anglo-American popular culture. Buckton asserts that whereas James Bond is not necessarily Fleming's alter-ego, as some biographers suggest, the people, events, and locations of Fleming's life were the source material for his novels.... Buckton makes a compelling argument that Fleming’s Bond novels reveal much about the heyday and decline of Britain’s imperial vistas.

• AcknowledgmentsList of PhotosAuthor’s NoteForewordPrologue: A Fateful Meeting1 Spyway: The Early Life of Ian Fleming2 Escape in the Alps: Ian Fleming and James Bond in Kitzbühel3 From Moscow to Ebury Street: Fleming in the 1930s4 My Man Godfrey: Ian Fleming in Naval Intelligence5 After the War Was Over: Goldeneye and Kemsley House6 The Spy Story to End All Spy Stories: Casino Royale7 The Edge of Danger: Thrilling Environments of Ian Fleming8 “Such Stubborn Retreats”: The Bondian Worlds of Jamaica and Kent9 Fleming’s Women, Bond’s “Girls”10 Promoting Bond: Fleming, Mass Culture, and the Movies11 From Fleming, with Love: Travel Writings and Nonfiction12 The Iron CrabNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Oliver Buckton is professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of Espionage in British Fiction and Film since 1900: The Changing Enemy and Counterfeit Spies: How World War II Intelligence Operations Shaped Cold War Spy Fiction. He lives in Delray Beach, Florida.

Ian Fleming’s character James Bond is a mainstay of Anglo-American popular culture. Buckton asserts that whereas James Bond is not necessarily Fleming's alter-ego, as some biographers suggest, the people, events, and locations of Fleming's life were the source material for his novels.... Buckton makes a compelling argument that Fleming’s Bond novels reveal much about the heyday and decline of Britain’s imperial vistas.

• AcknowledgmentsList of PhotosAuthor’s NoteForewordPrologue: A Fateful Meeting1 Spyway: The Early Life of Ian Fleming2 Escape in the Alps: Ian Fleming and James Bond in Kitzbühel3 From Moscow to Ebury Street: Fleming in the 1930s4 My Man Godfrey: Ian Fleming in Naval Intelligence5 After the War Was Over: Goldeneye and Kemsley House6 The Spy Story to End All Spy Stories: Casino Royale7 The Edge of Danger: Thrilling Environments of Ian Fleming8 “Such Stubborn Retreats”: The Bondian Worlds of Jamaica and Kent9 Fleming’s Women, Bond’s “Girls”10 Promoting Bond: Fleming, Mass Culture, and the Movies11 From Fleming, with Love: Travel Writings and Nonfiction12 The Iron CrabNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author