Description
Book SynopsisTells the story of Ian Fleming at Goldeneye in Jamaica, where all his novels and stories on James Bond were written. This book includes interviews with Ian's family, his Jamaican lover Blanche Blackwell and many other islanders. It deals with Ian Fleming's life and work.
Trade ReviewSupremely enjoyable... Matthew Parker has created a completely new picture of Ian, Bond and the role of Jamaica in the making of the legend
-- John Pearson, author of THE LIFE OF IAN FLEMING
The book that James Bond obsessives have been waiting for – a
beautiful, brilliant history of Ian Fleming at home at Goldeneye, all of sun-drenched, gin-soaked, bed-hopping colonial Jamaica outside the window and 007 at the moment of his creation.
This is the big bang of Bond books. -- Tony Parsons
[Here are]
the glowing sea, the teeming life beneath the waves, and the warm black nights, all of which made their way into the Bond novels... [But] Parker’s highly readable account of Fleming’s Jamaican life is less
Thunderball and more Jean Rhys’s
Wide Sargasso Sea. Bond himself might have been a touch jealous. -- Sinclair McKay * Daily Telegraph *
A
superb account of Fleming’s Jamaica… well-researched, excellently written…
Without Jamaica, it is safe to say, there would have been no Agent 007. * Financial Times *
Matthew Parker's
brilliant book
Goldeneye is
indispensable for anyone interested in the inner life of the enigmatic Ian Fleming and the whole James Bond phenomenon he created. -- Nicholas Rankin * author of Ian Fleming's Commandos *
