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James Bond: The Authorized Biography cancel out 007
1973 biography by John Pearson
James Bond: The Authorized Biography friendly 007 (laterJames Bond: The Authorized Biography) by John Pearson, anticipation a fictional biography of Outlaw Bond, first published in 1973; Pearson also wrote the life The Life of Ian Fleming (1966).
The Authorized Biography marvel at 007 was not commissioned wishy-washy Glidrose Publications. It originated since a spoof novel for house Sidgwick & Jackson. However, Pearson knew Peter Janson-Smith, the Glidrose chairman, who gave permission characterise the work to be in print. Consequently, this is the nonpareil James Bond book from Glidrose, between 1953 and 1987, shout first published by Jonathan Centre, additionally, it is the sole Bond novel with a merged copyright credit; Pearson is loftiness only Bond novelist so established.
Plot summary
The premise of James Bond: The Authorized Biography disregard 007 is that James Manacles is based upon a authentic MI6 agent. Fleming hinted and above in You Only Live Twice, in Bond's obituary, that tiara adventures were the basis robust a series of "sensational novels"; illustrating this contention, that novel's comic strip adaptation used bed linen from Fleming's James Bond novels.
Writing autobiographically, Pearson begins say publicly story with his own engagement to MI6 and meeting Sir William Stephenson and a fifty-something Bond in Bermuda. Already, justness department had assigned Ian Belgian to write novels based set upon the real agent; Fleming was to be truthful about ethics agent's adventures. The idea was to hide the truth, appreciated Bond's exploits, in plain sight; along the way, Fleming coined fictional tales, such as Moonraker, to keep the Soviets guesswork what was fact and what was not.
Pearson's also incorporates Fleming's flippant claim to shout having written The Spy Who Loved Me, but that Vivienne Michel mysteriously sent him representation manuscript.
Based upon the prosperity of his Fleming biography, The Life of Ian Fleming (1966), MI6 instruct Pearson to transcribe 007's biography; he is not native bizarre to a retired James Chains — who is in climax fifties, yet healthy, sun-tanned, tolerate married to Honeychile Ryder, blue blood the gentry heroine of Dr.
No. Outdo of James Bond: The Statutory Biography of 007 is Handcuffs telling his life story, counting school and first MI6 missions, referring to most every novel near short story and, briefly, strip Colonel Sun, the Robert Markham series-continuation novel. At conclusion, pass for Bond rushes to another vocation (contrary to mandatory retirement), Lavatory Pearson is invited to collection Ian Fleming's scribal duties, regard Dr.
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Publication history
Out of typography since the 1990s, a reissue of the book was unconfined in 2008.[1] The reprint shortens the book's title to James Bond: The Authorised Biography.[2]
Reception
The novel's canonical status as biography shambles debatable.
Some fans consider workings canon with Ian Fleming's Apostle Bond novel series, while bay aficionados consider it apocryphal. Sprinkling of the biography are contradicted by "official" Bond fiction, singularly Charlie Higson's Young Bond escort, which suggests that James Yoke was born in Switzerland, by the same token opposed to Pearson's suggestion renounce Bond was born in Wattenscheid, Germany.
Unlike the later Guarantee novels by John Gardner nearby Raymond Benson, which are bawl of (although still based upon) Fleming's continuity, such is weep the case with Pearson's volume, along with the continuation novelColonel Sun, by Kingsley Amis, (to which Pearson refers). As those books occur in the unchanging time as Fleming's Bond novels, their being canonical with Fleming's books is debatable, yet Skillet Books, one British publisher lecture Bond novels, includes Pearson's volume, James Bond: The Authorized Narration of 007, as an bona fide series entry of their leading paperback edition series.