The I Index

Ian Fleming: The Complete Man

Next in the queue

73

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

59/100

Critics

86/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Nicholas Shakespeare

Publisher:

Harper

Date:

April 9, 2024

Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, the British national psyche and global politics has shifted over time, as has the interpretation of the life of his author. But Fleming himself was more mysterious and subtle than anything he wrote.

What The Reviewers Say

Anna Mundow,
The Wall Street Journal
A monumental edifice of a book that at first glance seems somewhat daunting.
Michael Dirda,
The Washington Post
Huge, immensely detailed.
James Parker,
The Atlantic
Walloping.
A. S. G. Edwards,
Times Literary Supplement (UK)
Detailed.