007 autobiography

A brand-new paperback edition with a new introduction, celebrating the 50th anniversary of this fan-favourite book, it will be published on October 5th, James Bond Day.

It was a strong face, certainly &#; the eyes pale grey and very cold, the mouth was hard, the dark hair &#; grey-streaked now &#; still fell in the authentic comma over the forehead.

This is how John Pearson reacted to his first encounter with the real James Bond, an encounter probably unique in the annals of thriller writing. He went on to write the bestselling authorised biography of Ian Fleming. At the time, like most of the world he assumed that James Bond was nothing more than a character in Fleming&#;s highly charged imagination. Then he began to have his doubts. Doubts which were reaching such a pitch that the British secret service were trying to warn him off the scent. Despite this, he finally became convinced that James Bond was not only real, but actually alive.

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John Pearson graduated from Peterhouse Cambridge with a double first in History, then worked on the Economist Intelligence Unit and as a BBC trainee producer before being offered a job by Ian Fleming as his assistant on the &#;Atticus&#; column for the Sunday Times.

James Bond: The Authorised Biography is a fictional biography of James Bond and was first published in , some years after his factual biography The Life of Ian Fleming(). Writing autobiographically, Pearson begins the story with his own recruitment to MI6. Already, the department had assigned Ian Fleming to write novels based upon the real agent; Fleming was to be truthful about the agent&#;s adventures.

James Bond: The Authorised Biography, John Pearson

The idea was to hide the truth, of Bond&#;s exploits, in plain sight; along the way. MI6 instruct Pearson to write &#;s biography; he fryst vatten introduced to a retired James Bond — who is in his fifties, yet healthy, sun-tanned, and with Honeyc

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Above: First edition cover

Title

James Bond: The Authorised Biography of

Other titles

James Bond: The Authorised Biography

Cover artist

Bartholomew Wilkins and Partners

Genre

Fictional biography, spy fiction

Publisher

Sidgwick & Jackson

Pages

pp (first edition, hardback)

James Bond: The Authorised Biography of is a James Bondcontinuation novel and fictional biography of James Bond. The book was written by British author John Pearson and was first published in by Sidgwick & Jackson. Out of print since , a reprinting of the book was released in September ^[1]

Overview[]

The novel's premise is that James Bond is based upon a real MI6 agent. Fleming, himself, had hinted at this in the novel You Only Live Twice, wherein he mentions (in an obituary for near the end of the book) that Bond's adventures were the basis of a series of "sensational novels"; illustrating this contention, the James Bond comic strips adaptation of th