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Monday, December 9, 2013
For Your Eyes Only: Letters Reveal Deepest Secrets Of 007 Creator Ian Fleming... And The Day He Almost Died At A Sunday Times Meeting
Chris Hasting at the British newspaper the Daily Mail offers a piece on the newly revealed Ian Fleming letters.
As the creator of James Bond, Ian Fleming was a master of dreaming up death-defying situations from which the super-spy only just manages to escape.
But Fleming himself owed his life to the prompt actions of one of his closet friends who spotted he was having a major heart attack.
In previously unseen letters, published for the first time today, Fleming also admitted his impending marriage would cause a "Fleet Street sensation' - and reveals that he regards the genteel pastime of gardening as a 'death trap'.
Fleming's intimate exchanges with his colleague Denis 'CD' Hamilton form part of an archive of more than 80 letters now on sale for 160, 000 pounds.
You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2519995/For-eyes-Letters-reveal-deepest-secrets-007-creator-Ian-Fleming--day-dropped-dead-Sunday-Times-meeting.html
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