![]() The list of sexy but weak-willed, unreliable females goes on. Solitaire, the mind-reader who renounces her powers when she sleeps with Bond. ![]() Honey Ryder, the semi-imbecilic blonde who lives naked on a Caribbean beach. Then there's Tatiana Romanova, the Russian who betrays her country because 007 is so hunky. Other Bond girls include Pussy Galore (seriously), the lesbian gangster who switches sexual orientation and side of the law for Bond. The first Bond girl, Vesper Lynd, is a British secret agent, a colleague of Bond's, but she betrays him and almost gets him killed. Miss Moneypenny is a surrogate mother, or perhaps an old-school upper-class wife, an ever-faithful confidante and organizer who doesn't require sex. ![]() ![]() The women in the novels fit into this scenario. His opinions, habits and tastes are unflinching, which makes him exotic, but also as politically correct as a Benny Hill bikini fight.įleming writes about his hero in crisp, punchy prose, and (to me, anyway) seems to be projecting an idealized version of himself – a suave old-Etonian serial seducer with extra combat skills and pain resistance. He's a battle-fatigued product of World War Two, and as set in his ways as Big Ben. I've always been fascinated by James Bond, the character in the books more than the films. The novel is published on November 12, and will be available on Amazon, or direct from the publisher – just write to more personal hote : So, as she bullies him across France and into Paris, Lemming receives a painful crash course in spy craft, and starts to fantasize about a fictional agent – male of course – who would operate only in the most luxurious conditions, and lord it over totally subservient women. With no access to a razor or clean underwear, and deprived of his cigarettes, Lemming just wants to go home.īut he is stranded with a young, though hugely experienced, female agent called Margaux Lynd, who is on a perilous mission to unmask traitors in a French Resistance network. It is April 1944, and chic armchair naval officer Ian Lemming is accidentally beached in Nazi-occupied Normandy. Below is a more personal note on how and why I wrote The Spy Who Inspired Me. First of all, here's the blurb if you want the essential information about the characters and the storyline. ![]()
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