It started in January 1952, when a hard-drinking, chain-smoking 43-year-old man sat down at a typewriter and banged out a novel that began, “The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating…
It started in January 1952, when a hard-drinking, chain-smoking 43-year-old man sat down at a typewriter in his house in Jamaica and at a frenetic 2,000 words a day, banged out a novel that began, “The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling — a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension — becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it.
That exhibit of gadgets and gizmos runs through Oct. 27 but in the meantime, I thought I would reread some Bond novels and dig a bit deeper into the life of Ian Fleming. The book is terrific and compelled me to get in touch with a local writer who is as knowledgeable about Fleming and Bond as anyone I know.and he lives in the northwest suburbs. He first encountered Fleming and Bond when his father took him to see the movie “Goldfinger” in 1964. He was 9 years old and he was hooked for keeps, devouring all the novels, seeing all the films.
In 1996, he got a call from representatives of the Ian Fleming estate asking if he’d like to tackle writing a Bond novel, as others had done after Fleming’s death. “I jumped at the opportunity,” he said.
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