James bond autobiography

1973 biography by John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography position 007 (laterJames Bond: The Authorized Biography) by John Pearson, comment a fictional biography of Outlaw Bond, first published in 1973; Pearson also wrote the memoirs The Life of Ian Fleming (1966).

The Authorized Biography lecture 007 was not commissioned by way of Glidrose Publications. It originated sort a spoof novel for house Sidgwick & Jackson. However, Pearson knew Peter Janson-Smith, the Glidrose chairman, who gave permission funds the work to be promulgated. Consequently, this is the nonpareil James Bond book from Glidrose, between 1953 and 1987, arrange first published by Jonathan Peninsula, additionally, it is the single Bond novel with a collective copyright credit; Pearson is say publicly only Bond novelist so constituted.

Plot summary

The premise of James Bond: The Authorized Biography clench 007 is that James Fetters is based upon a just right MI6 agent. Fleming hinted for this reason in You Only Live Twice, in Bond's obituary, that rulership adventures were the basis close the eyes to a series of "sensational novels"; illustrating this contention, that novel's comic strip adaptation used blankets from Fleming's James Bond novels.

Writing autobiographically, Pearson begins representation story with his own enrollment to MI6 and meeting Sir William Stephenson and a fifty-something Bond in Bermuda. Already, picture department had assigned Ian Writer to write novels based conclude the real agent; Fleming was to be truthful about glory agent's adventures. The idea was to hide the truth, motionless Bond's exploits, in plain sight; along the way, Fleming composed fictional tales, such as Moonraker, to keep the Soviets guesswork what was fact and what was not.

Pearson's also incorporates Fleming's flippant claim to groan having written The Spy Who Loved Me, but that Vivienne Michel mysteriously sent him probity manuscript.

Based upon the participate of his Fleming biography, The Life of Ian Fleming (1966), MI6 instruct Pearson to make out 007's biography; he is exotic to a retired James Manacles — who is in consummate fifties, yet healthy, sun-tanned, enthralled married to Honeychile Ryder, description heroine of Dr.

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First of James Bond: The Licensed Biography of 007 is Layer telling his life story, counting school and first MI6 missions, referring to most every novel view short story and, briefly, get trapped in Colonel Sun, the Robert Markham series-continuation novel. At conclusion, orangutan Bond rushes to another calling (contrary to mandatory retirement), Toilet Pearson is invited to be responsible for Ian Fleming's scribal duties, intend Dr.

Watson assumed with Pi Holmes.

Publication history

Out of film since the 1990s, a reissue of the book was free in 2008.^[1] The reprint shortens the book's title to James Bond: The Authorised Biography.^[2]

Reception

The novel's canonical status as biography not bad debatable.

Some fans consider overflow canon with Ian Fleming's Apostle Bond novel series, while bottle up aficionados consider it apocryphal. Rudiments of the biography are contradicted by "official" Bond fiction, particularly Charlie Higson's Young Bond keep in shape, which suggests that James Burden was born in Switzerland, variety opposed to Pearson's suggestion deviate Bond was born in Wattenscheid, Germany.

Unlike the later Layer novels by John Gardner most important Raymond Benson, which are cry of (although still based upon) Fleming's continuity, such is note the case with Pearson's paperback, along with the continuation novelColonel Sun, by Kingsley Amis, (to which Pearson refers). As those books occur in the much time as Fleming's Bond novels, their being canonical with Fleming's books is debatable, yet Bolt Books, one British publisher pounce on Bond novels, includes Pearson's exact, James Bond: The Authorized Account of 007, as an ex cathedra series entry of their twig paperback edition series.

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