The Spy Who Came In With The Gold by Henry A.Zeiger
Nicholas Meadows
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The first Ian Fleming Biography to come out was in 1965, it was published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce and was written by Henry A.Zeiger and called The Spy Who Came In With The Gold
A lovely play on words.
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Has anyone else read it? I cant seem to find any chatter about it anywhere. It seems to have been forgotten.
Whilst it goes over familiar Fleming ground it does offer a interesting look at the Metro-Vickers affair that Fleming reported on. It goes a little bit more into the actual case than any other book I have read. (Yet to read Pearson's)
Towards the end Zeiger offers his analysis of the Bond books. To sum up, he thought that Fleming was in a way musing about Britishness. Most of the villains are at root from another country, and Bond always defeats evil. I am not sure if he borrowed a bit from Amis's Dossier. It's an interesting idea, was Fleming saying more with his writing. Perhaps it's subjective, but it's an interesting concept never the less. Dennis Wheatley had similar insecurities, so it could have been a sign of the times. And it all started with the tea drinking according to Fleming.:007)
A lovely play on words.
)Has anyone else read it? I cant seem to find any chatter about it anywhere. It seems to have been forgotten.
Whilst it goes over familiar Fleming ground it does offer a interesting look at the Metro-Vickers affair that Fleming reported on. It goes a little bit more into the actual case than any other book I have read. (Yet to read Pearson's)
Towards the end Zeiger offers his analysis of the Bond books. To sum up, he thought that Fleming was in a way musing about Britishness. Most of the villains are at root from another country, and Bond always defeats evil. I am not sure if he borrowed a bit from Amis's Dossier. It's an interesting idea, was Fleming saying more with his writing. Perhaps it's subjective, but it's an interesting concept never the less. Dennis Wheatley had similar insecurities, so it could have been a sign of the times. And it all started with the tea drinking according to Fleming.:007)
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Here it is on amazon, though its status is 'unavailable'.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ian-Fleming-spy-came-gold/dp/B0007G5PR0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1299146851&sr=1-2
Guess it got superceded by John Pearson's autobiography.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
I got the impression that Fleming was eating spam when he said the line about writing the spy story to end all spy stories. Although I take the book with a pintch of salt as it seems to have been researched via newspaper articles.
Yes, it really got forgotten after Pearsons came out, I imagine. I guess Pearson knew Fleming, had access to letters, photos, Family, Coward etc and Ziger didn't have any of these, just newspaper clippings. There is a review for it on amazon which gives a good refresher of what's in it. Anyway, Ziger didn't do a bad job, no out and out lies. So it's a shame it's been forgot to a certain degree.
The review for it is on the Amazon.com website I should point out.