Devil May Care

learning languages and gaining an enduring love for the Alps. He joined Reuters and learned to write accurately and fast. A further career in the City of London was cut short by the outbreak of war in 1939.
    As assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence throughout the Second World War, he found his niche, and his experience in Naval Intelligence was to provide many of the incidents and characters in the Bond novels.
    Later, while working for the Sunday Times as foreign manager, he would spend two months each winter in Jamaica and there, at Goldeneye, he wrote his novels. His interest in cars, travel, good food and beautiful women, as well as his love of golf and gambling, was reflected in the books that were to sell in their millions, boosted by the vastly successful film franchise.
    Ian Fleming lived to see only the first two films, Dr. No and From Russia with Love: he died of heart failure in 1964 at the age of fifty-six.