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Ian Fleming in Modern Literature
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I'm reading an entertaining book by Jake Arnott right now called The House of Rumour. It's a sort of quasi-fictional account of Fleming's wartime exploits in part, including references to M. I won't summarize too much more as I am only a quarter through - here's the blurb if you are interested:
Mixing the invented and the real, The House of Rumour explores WWII spy intrigue (featuring Ian Fleming), occultism (Aleister Crowley), the West Coast science-fiction set (Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and Philip K. Dick all appear), and the new wave music scene of the ’80s. The decades-spanning, labyrinthine plot even weaves in The Jonestown Massacre and Rudolf Hess, UFO sightings and B-movies. Told through multiple narrators, what at first appears to be a constellation of random events begins to cohere as the work of a shadow organization—or is it just coincidence?
Anyway, my question is apart from this book and William Boyd's Any Human Heart, which features Ian Fleming, are there any other novels that include Ian as a character?
Mixing the invented and the real, The House of Rumour explores WWII spy intrigue (featuring Ian Fleming), occultism (Aleister Crowley), the West Coast science-fiction set (Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and Philip K. Dick all appear), and the new wave music scene of the ’80s. The decades-spanning, labyrinthine plot even weaves in The Jonestown Massacre and Rudolf Hess, UFO sightings and B-movies. Told through multiple narrators, what at first appears to be a constellation of random events begins to cohere as the work of a shadow organization—or is it just coincidence?
Anyway, my question is apart from this book and William Boyd's Any Human Heart, which features Ian Fleming, are there any other novels that include Ian as a character?
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It is moving to the top of my to-read list. I should add the Boyd and Kaminksy books too, as there is nothing else very pressing on my to-read list anyway.
Fleming as a character sounds real interesting.
Is the Jake Arnott book good?
I ask because he wrote a fabulous crime trilogy in the '90s that started with 'The Long Firm'. Great stuff that I would thoroughly recommend to you crime aficionados out there!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707821-no-dawn-for-men