No may have been based upon her.įleming decided to take an entirely different approach with his next book, which would become The Spy Who Loved Me. Some believe that Blanche was really the love of Ian Fleming’s life and that the character of Honeychile Rider from Dr. Anne was seeing Hugh Gaitskell, a politician and Leader of the Labor Party while Ian was seeing Blanche Blackwell, mother of Chris Blackwell who would go on to become founder of Island Records and eventually become the owner of Fleming’s Goldeneye estate, a present day luxury resort. Both Ian and Ann were also each engaged in affairs. Ann had never approved of Fleming’s Bond books because she found them distasteful and because her social circle also disapproved of them. His relationship with his wife Ann had become terribly fractured. The previous year, Fleming had suffered a coronary forcing him to spend a month at a London clinic. He was no longer fit enough to ski at the Fleming family Christmas holiday retreat in St. Not surprisingly, Ian Fleming was in a dire physical and emotional state. His previous novel, Thunderball, had been published despite Kevin McClory’s attempt to stop publication amidst accusations of plagiarism. Bond's most deadly adversary on the case is Stromberg's henchman, Jaws (Richard Kiel), a seven-foot giant with terrifying steel teeth.In January of 1961 Ian Fleming retreated to his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica to write his 10 th James Bond book. In a globe-trotting assignment that has him skiing off the edges of cliffs and driving a car deep underwater, British super-spy James Bond (Roger Moore) unites with sexy Russian agent Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach) to defeat megalomaniac shipping magnate Karl Stromberg (Curt Jurgens), who is threatening to destroy New York City with nuclear weapons. The Spy Who Loved Me was made into a 1977 spy film, the tenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. Fleming wrote a prologue to the novel giving Michel credit as a co-author. Bond himself does not appear until two-thirds of the way through the book. It is the shortest and most sexually explicit of Fleming's novels, as well as a clear departure from previous Bond novels in that the story is told in the first person by a young Canadian woman, Vivienne Michel. The Spy Who Loved Me is the ninth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published by Jonathan Cape on 16 April 1962. 1965 Book Club Edition copyright 1962 The Viking Press publishers, New York hardbound in black and red boards with gilt stamp lettering along spine very good condition with unmarked pages dust jacket very good.

The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming