5/27/2023 0 Comments William boyd bond![]() ![]() In On His Majesty's Secret Service, looking at an idyllic scene on the beach in Royale, we find Bond in uncharacteristically pensive mood: "What a long time ago they were, those spade and bucket days! How far he had come since the freckles and Cadbury milk-chocolate Flakes and fizzy lemonade! Impatiently Bond lit a cigarette, pulled his shoulders out of their slouch and slammed the mawkish memories back into their long closed file.īoyd's Bond is also Fleming's at his most complicated, perfectly attuned to those occasional yet haunting bouts of doubt, conscience and even vulnerability. But the fiction, if not the films, occasionally pause the carnage and seduction to tell a slightly different, less deluded, story. It's largely, of course, thanks to Ian Fleming that spying is a vocation that we've come to associate with high octane glamour. Aged just 11 or 12 the then scandalous book From Russia With Love (Fleming's fifth and a huge seller after JFK said it was one of his favourite novels) captivated Boyd, getting him addicted to what he's succinctly described as the "now familiar blend of snobbery, sex, ludicrous violence, exotic travel and superior consumer goods." ![]()
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