Ian Fleming died on August 12, 1964. The veteran operative of the British Naval Intelligence Service, who claimed to have founded the CIA, playboy, old smoker, and alcohol-dependent, carried and wrote two hundred and fourteen world-selling novels featuring a guy named "James Bond" or "007" for short.
Fleming deserves to be remembered with great enthusiasm, not only because of the standard slender and beautiful legs of a "Bond girl", but also for his unique characteristics, that is, he is the most famous of all the authors who created YY Shuangwen based on himself as the protagonist. Adult fairy tales, nothing more.
Bond's prototype is, of course, a big spy! Fleming led an elite team behind the German army to steal secret military materials during World War II, and personally captured a German admiral. After returning to China, his American counterparts planned to also set up an intelligence bureau, and asked Fleming for advice, and Fleming gladly proposed a framework for intelligence agencies, and incidentally commented on the ideal image of the agent in his heart: "Aged 40 to 50 years old, trained as a secret agent, with excellent observation, analysis, and evaluation ability, perfect judgment, able to keep a clear head at any time, have dedication to the intelligence cause, and have a broad life experience." "It's all James Bond. Later, the CIA was established, and Fleming's framework plan played a big role.
Stills from casino royale from the 007 series
Bond is a big smoker and a big drunk, which is a true portrayal of Fleming himself, and the first 007 novel, Casino Royale, narrates: "He (Bond) has a cold, beastly face, his right cheek is split in half by a knife scar, and he smokes 70 cigarettes a day on his mouth all day." That's exactly what Fleming did. He died of heart failure at the age of 56, which is not the same as the 007 in the book who can smoke 70 cigarettes a day, drink cocktails without coughing and not being weak...
Fleming denies that Bond's lust also comes from himself in life, but it seems that everyone except him feels that this is the case, Fleming is a character like Don Juan, and the female novelist Rosamond Lehmann said that he "had to have a relationship with women because he couldn't have a good relationship with them." He also had some beautiful stories with famous female spies, well, James Bond is yourself, Mr. Fleming.
In the end, Mr. Fleming was tied into the marriage hall was the failure of contraception, he let the family "run with the ball", as a gentleman (hentai) of course to be responsible, some time before the wedding was about to start, premarital phobia, and for countless girls running in the free world can not forget Mr. Fleming worried about hiding, in less than two months to write the 007 series of debut "Casino Royale 007", it is worth noting, In the book, Bond's newlywed wife is happy to be killed by people in a few pages, and gives James Bond back to the beautiful women.
But to be fair, the success of the 007 series is not false, reading there are often worries that the quality can not keep up with the fame, the same smoking and drinking to make the sister of Bond Jun in each story have to do a deadly life with The Soviet agents, smash the Soviet conspiracy to destroy the world, this is full of Cold War characteristics, the same is that the villain always has the opportunity to grasp bond's life and death, but they just refuse to shoot and crash, but let him die slowly, so that the protagonist Jun Salty Fish turned over.
So, to be honest, with the 007 series of similar spy novels, you have some other better options.
Fleming himself is a veteran agent
Frederick Forsyth
In the field of spy fiction, Forsyth is God.
Forsyth worked for MI6 for more than two decades, providing frontline coverage to Britain during the Cold War, covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In that turbulent and war-torn era, international political events such as assassinations, explosions, kidnappings, and shady scenes were the focus of his attention and tracking. The rich content of the long-term journalistic career, coupled with the journalist's professional attention to detail and logical lines, has created the most perfect and terrifying trait of his work - authenticity, so real that you feel that you can use the novel as an instruction manual to practice the authenticity!
For example, "War Dogs", the protagonist Rodin in the second half of the book plans to take down the military government of an African country, from raising money to hiring soldiers, drawing up plans, listing equipment, purchasing equipment, transporting equipment into the country, and finally starting and succeeding. "The Day of the Jackal" Killer and the police, especially the killer's practice when lurking is so practical that the wanted criminal can grab the medicine according to the prescription, and "God's Fist" and "The Devil's Choice" are vivid portrayals of the political game at the highest decision-making level of the government. Without looking at the profound skill of controlling the plot of the text, Forsyth can establish the status of a master by relying on a single "true" word.
I have to praise again that Forsyth is really familiar with the political propositions, economic situation, folk customs, military structures, spy agencies, espionage methods, weapons and equipment, and ordnance performance of Western countries. Thick accumulation can be thin!
John Le Carré
After learning about the resumes of Western spy novels, I found that this field is not a layman's play, if not a genius who specializes in this field, at least he has to stay in MI5 for ten years before he can take root. Although readers also do not understand the spy world, it is difficult to expose the layman, but if the layman really rushes to reach out, even if he is as strong as Agatha Christie, the queen of the reasoning world, the strong author who has written more than a hundred books, cross-border spy novels, it is also a complete failure: "Four Heavenly Kings" is a work of smashing pots, "Seven Bells" is a funny work, "They Came to Baghdad" is a reasoning wine in a spy shell...
At the age of 18, Le Carré was recruited by the British military intelligence service to spy on East Berlin, during which time his superior intelligence and ability to observe things was appreciated by the veteran spy Knight, so he was able to enter MI5 and experience the countless storms of secret intelligence work as a diplomat. Since reality has been in the sea, in the face of small challenges in the literary world, there is no wave in the heart.
Le Carré's hallmark advantage over the others is his adept use of complex structures and his peers in laying dark lines. One of the representative works, "Pot Maker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", was adapted into a movie some time ago, and although the movie is good, the original work is better, only by reading the original work can you deeply appreciate the intricate and interlocking true meaning. This is a very brain-burning book, after reading it, please ask yourself, have you found the real mystery?
His famous work "Berlin Spy" was praised by the well-known Taiwanese writer and book critic Mr. Tang Nuo as "Le Carré is the first person in spy novels, and the second person may not have been born yet." ”
Take this sentence to read Le Carré, see if he is worth the price, whether it is worth it or not, the name is included in the discussion of the first person in the industry, it is a supreme honor, isn't it?
Poster of "Potmakers, Tailors, Soldiers, Spies"
Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy is probably the most famous of the masters involved in this article, because Ubisoft has produced a series of good games based on his novels, such as "Tom Clancy's Eagle Strikes the Sky", "Tom Clancy's All-Domain Blockade", "Tom Clancy's End of war", "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas", which has a great impact and is well deserved.
As mentioned earlier, if you have not been a spy for ten years in spy novels, you must be a genius-level figure who specializes in this category, and Clancy, who was born in 1947, of course, has never been a spy at this age, he is such a genius-level figure.
More precisely, he was a genius-level analyst who had access to military data and political information in the same way as you and me, both on television and on the Internet, and Crancey relied on the sporadic information of the Jiguang Katayu to analyze the detailed technical data and sketch out the true picture. Realistic and detailed descriptions involving military and defense intelligence operations and terrorist organization activities even attracted the close attention of government departments. His masterpiece "The Hunt for Red October" caused a great shock in all walks of life in the United States because it contained a large number of real and detailed technical data and irrefutable insider details, and even Reagan called it "a story that is almost perfect in technology".
Readers who have watched "The First Half of My Life" must know what is going on in the analyst industry, and the main force of the consulting firm where He Han Tangjing works is the analyst team, who can find useful points from the huge and redundant data, and analyze the possible future direction for customers to make strategic decisions. Clancy's performance is here.
"The War Between the United States and Japan" accurately predicts the scene of the economic war between the United States and Japan in 1995, and the most incredible thing is that the novel "Presidential Order" published in 1996 depicts terrorists flying a Boeing 747 airliner to commit suicide attacks on the US Capitol Hill, which is the same as the "9/11" terrorist attacks in which the plane crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in New York. 9/11 made Clancy famous, and americans have long been rumored to have acted according to his novels.
So, the question is, Forsyth, Le Carré and Clancy, the quality of their works are above Fleming, why does Fleming's jianghu status override the three masters?
The 007 series can get such a super-first-class literary status at present, which is influenced by the factors of the times. After World War II, the United States succeeded the United Kingdom and became the premier power in the West, while the old power of the United Kingdom was increasingly star-studded, and the people of the Empire were facing a huge psychological gap between pride and the status quo for a long time, at this time, James Bond, 007, a British who has always been elegant, has a British aristocratic demeanor, wisdom and humor, and bravery, has won victories again and again, saving the world again and again, and the British people can't help but like him.
The 007 series is an adult fairy tale written by Fleming to himself, and it is also the adult fairy tale exclusive to the British people of that generation, may the father of the classic rest in peace.