Ian Fleming is the most influential writer of spy fiction ... Worst of all, it lacks the sense of fun that animated the ...

That was what Ian Fleming initially called his hero ... Take the long central section devoted to Fleming’s wartime ...

Fleming and Chandler talk about protagonists ... Chandler with the mean streets of Los Angeles, the Chicago-born writer did, in fact, spend much of his early life in England.

It is the first time for a Japanese writer to be nominated ... author of the James Bond series, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award is given to outstanding works of spy and adventure fiction.