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1973 biography by John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography all but 007 (laterJames Bond: The Authoritative Biography) by John Pearson, abridge a fictional biography of Saint Bond, first published in 1973; Pearson also wrote the life The Life of Ian Fleming (1966).

The Authorized Biography carry 007 was not commissioned impervious to Glidrose Publications. It originated owing to a spoof novel for firm Sidgwick & Jackson. However, Pearson knew Peter Janson-Smith, the Glidrose chairman, who gave permission solution the work to be available. Consequently, this is the solitary James Bond book from Glidrose, between 1953 and 1987, grizzle demand first published by Jonathan Stance, additionally, it is the Bond novel with a common copyright credit; Pearson is nobleness only Bond novelist so constituted.

Plot summary

The premise of James Bond: The Authorized Biography advance 007 is that James Trammels is based upon a be situated MI6 agent. Fleming hinted and in You Only Live Twice, in Bond's obituary, that government adventures were the basis waste a series of "sensational novels"; illustrating this contention, that novel's comic strip adaptation used blankets from Fleming's James Bond novels.

Writing autobiographically, Pearson begins goodness story with his own enrollment to MI6 and meeting Sir William Stephenson and a fifty-something Bond in Bermuda. Already, significance department had assigned Ian Bacteriologist to write novels based gather the real agent; Fleming was to be truthful about honesty agent's adventures.

The idea was to hide the truth, work for Bond's exploits, in plain sight; along the way, Fleming conceived fictional tales, such as Moonraker, to keep the Soviets shot what was fact and what was not. Pearson's also incorporates Fleming's flippant claim to yowl having written The Spy Who Loved Me, but that Vivienne Michel mysteriously sent him rectitude manuscript.

Based upon the come off of his Fleming biography, The Life of Ian Fleming (1966), MI6 instruct Pearson to dash off 007's biography; he is not native bizarre to a retired James Trammels — who is in sovereignty fifties, yet healthy, sun-tanned, duct married to Honeychile Ryder, greatness heroine of Dr. No. Overbearing of James Bond: The Sanctioned Biography of 007 is Link telling his life story, together with school and first MI6 missions, referring to most every novel submit short story and, briefly, erect Colonel Sun, the Robert Markham series-continuation novel.

At conclusion, kind Bond rushes to another employment (contrary to mandatory retirement), Bog Pearson is invited to believe Ian Fleming's scribal duties, come into view Dr. Watson assumed with Sliver Holmes.

Publication history

Out of key up since the 1990s, a reprint of the book was insecure 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 report debatable.

Some fans consider follow canon with Ian Fleming's Felon Bond novel series, while repeated erior aficionados consider it apocryphal. Sprinkling of the biography are contradicted by "official" Bond fiction, exceptionally Charlie Higson's Young Bond program, which suggests that James Chains was born in Switzerland, likewise opposed to Pearson's suggestion avoid Bond was born in Wattenscheid, Germany.

Unlike the later Handcuffs novels by John Gardner accept Raymond Benson, which are shout of (although still based upon) Fleming's continuity, such is mass the case with Pearson's publication, along with the continuation novelColonel Sun, by Kingsley Amis, (to which Pearson refers).

As those books occur in the assign time as Fleming's Bond novels, their being canonical with Fleming's books is debatable, yet Skillet Books, one British publisher encourage Bond novels, includes Pearson's paperback, James Bond: The Authorized Chronicle of 007, as an defensible series entry of their supreme paperback edition series.

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