The Golden TypewriterJohn Pearson in the Bond world
An imagined life of Bond, separate from Pearson’s real Fleming biography.
Where to begin
Pearson had known Fleming professionally before writing this fictional Bond biography. The book imagines that Bond is a living man whose history can be investigated. Read it for the change of viewpoint after several Fleming adventures; readers seeking factual information about Fleming should use the biographies guide instead.
Reading order
- James Bond: The Authorised Biography (1973)
John Pearson presents an imagined encounter with a living James Bond and writes the resulting story as an authorised life. The device turns familiar adventures into episodes in a man's biography, inviting the reader to look beyond individual missions to the person who supposedly lived them.
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