'Sean Connery Is A Real Charmer – Fairly Unknown But A Good Actor With The Right Looks And Physique': Unseen Ian Fleming Letters Reveals What Drove Him To Write His First James Bond Novel

The British newspaper the Daily Mail offers excerpts from The Man With the Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming's Bond Letters, edited by Ian Fleming's nephew, Fergus Fleming.

This cache of Ian Fleming’s correspondence – published in a brilliant new book – reveals how a gun-crazy fan became his most trusted adviser and why sex and violence played an important role in his protagonist's life

... The man they have chosen for Bond, Sean Connery, is a real charmer – fairly unknown but a good actor with the right looks and physique...  

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-3247729/Bond-Sean-Connery-real-charmer-fairly-unknown-good-actor-right-looks-physique.html 

You can also read my interview with Fergus Fleming via the below link:

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2009/10/through-thriller-writers-eyes-life-work.html