Ian Fleming

Author

Ian Fleming was a British novelist, journalist, and intelligence officer who created James Bond, the most famous fictional spy in history. Born in London in 1908 to a wealthy family, he was educated at Eton and briefly attended Sandhurst and the universities of Munich and Geneva. During the Second World War, he served in Naval... Intelligence, rising to the rank of Commander — experiences that directly inspired his fiction. Casino Royale, published in 1953, introduced the world to Agent 007, a British Secret Service operative who combines ruthless efficiency with sophisticated tastes. Fleming wrote fourteen Bond books in total (twelve novels and two short story collections) before his death in 1964 at the age of fifty-six. The Bond franchise has become the longest-running and most commercially successful film series in cinema history, and the character remains a cultural icon seventy years after his creation. Fleming's audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers the original Bond — leaner, darker, and more psychologically complex than his screen counterpart — in novels that defined the modern spy thriller and created an enduring myth of British cool. Read more Show less