![]() Indeed both writers throughout their work gradually become more hard core conservative and reactionary. In fact it’s so accurate it could be mistaken for a lost Fleming (it’s better than ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’, certainly) and maybe that isn’t so surprising as – despite their different backgrounds – Amis and Fleming were much the same type of Englishman. He really captures that mix of sex, sadism and the lash – as well as all the excessive consumption that James Bond does so well. And on this score, Kingsley Amis (a writer not traditionally known for his thrillers) does Fleming perfectly. Of course the author doesn’t want to go so far that it all becomes parody, but he does want to mimic the voice of the original while telling his own tale. One of the things about books like this is that a certain level of pastiche is inevitable. ![]() It might say Robert Markham on the front of this novel, but step forward Mr Kingsley Amis. Wasn't it incredible? Proof of the high esteem in which Fleming's writing is held.īut ignored in all the coverage was that the Fleming estate had hired a literary author to write a James Bond novel before. ![]() There was all that fuss the other year about Sebastian Faulks, an actual literary author (unlike John Gardner or Raymond Benson) being hired to write a James Bond novel. ![]()
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