007's Real Mission
007’S REAL MISSION By William E. Kelly The latest surge of interest in James Bond - Secret Agent 007 isn't because of a new Bond movie, or the speculation over who will play the next celluloid Bond, but rather the 70th anniversary of the publication of the first 007 novel Casino Royale, the reissue of the complete 007 series - sanitized to make them politically correct, and the release of yet another official biography, Nicholas Shakespeare's Ian Fleming – The Complete Man (Harvill Secker – Penguin Harper Collins, UK, March 2024). Because it is described as "complete" and “definitive,” I expected Shakespeare to set the record straight on three key issues t...