Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming's Bond Stories

About the Book

****Updated and expanded including many illustrations by George Almond. Plus clearer translations of foreign terms.

Ian Fleming’s James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming’s Bond Stories

officially approved by Ian Fleming Publications Ltd (formerly Glidrose),

with a Preface by Andrew Lycett and Forewords by Zoë Watkins, Publishing Manager,

Ian Fleming Publications Ltd.; Raymond Benson, author of The James Bond Bedside Companion, six original 007 novels, and numerous non-Bond novels.

This book is the result of analysis of each of Fleming’s James Bond novels. Within are glossaries of applicable terminology and references with detailed chronologies of events including annotations.

Detailed chronologies of events are represented at a day-of-week, month, day, year, and time-of-day level.

Glossaries contain translations of foreign terms, annotations, and other information of interest such as detailed information on the origin of Saramanga’s name (The Man with the Golden Gun).

Maps have been created for many of the novels along with in-depth information concerning specific topics such as, the Moonraker bridge game and the Goldfinger golf game.

In many instances, monetary amounts have been converted to their 2001 purchasing power equivalent.

Differences found between published versions and the original Fleming manuscripts archived at Indiana University’s Lilly Library have been noted.

About the Author

John Griswold brings a life-long interest in Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels and short stories to the writing of this book.  He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Deborah and their two cats, Ted and Trevor.