This is a signed paperback edition of Nicholas Shakespeare’s Ian Fleming: The Complete Man. It is signed by the author and strictly limited to 250 copies.
Winner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger for non-fiction and The Times, Financial Times, Economist, Spectator, Daily Express and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year.
A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond and his enduring impact, written by award-winning biographer Nicolas Shakespeare. Crafted with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers, the author uncovers new material that casts fresh light on his subject, resulting in a masterful, definitive biography.
Ian Fleming’s greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture, but Fleming’s life was more mysterious than anything he wrote.
Ian’s childhood with his gifted brother and extraordinary mother established his ambition to be ‘the complete man’. Only a writer for his last twelve years, his dramatic personal experiences and career in Naval Intelligence put him at the heart of critical moments in world history, while also providing rich inspiration for his fiction.
