The Man From Barbarossa and GoldenEye - The influences?

Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
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Jeremy Black in his great book The Politics of James Bond refers to The Man From Barbarossa's themes turning up in the 1995 film (and Gardner novelisation) GoldenEye. Does anyone here care to comment on these links. I can think of a few - criminals in the post-Cold War world seeking to profit from it, dachas, mentions of the 1991 coup d'etat, General Yevgeny Yuskovich being a forebear of the next 'Iron Man' of Russia - General Ourumov. Anyone else want to contribute on this (perhaps) obscure but very interesting topic?
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).

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  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,761Chief of Staff
    You probably really are 'talking' a VERY select few now...alas it has been a number a years since I read the Jeremy Black book you reference, so it's difficult to comment further...sorry...
    YNWA 97
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    Thanks, anyways. I do aim for the esoteric - I root them out on AJB better than anyone else! :)
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    I am going to write an article on this novel soon - two in fact, so watch out for my posts on The Bondologist Blog and The Goldeneye Dossier, respectively.
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
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