[Download] "And Now, A Smokeless, Sensitive James Bond (Daily Break)" by The Virginian Pilot # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: And Now, A Smokeless, Sensitive James Bond (Daily Break)
- Author : The Virginian Pilot
- Release Date : January 31, 2011
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 54 KB
Description
WHEN Ian Fleming, former WWII assistant to the director of British Naval Intelligence and postwar foreign manager of the Sunday Times, cast about for a credible handle to wrap around the protagonist of his first spy novel, florid monikers like Peregrine Carruthers wouldn't suit. He sought "the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find," "an anonymous, blunt instrument wielded by a government department." Inspired, Fleming lifted the bland byline from a reference book titled "Birds of the West Indies." James Bond.