Once upon a time James Bond ... It all started in Goldeneye , the paradise property in Jamaica of Ian Fleming. This journalist, himself a former intelligence agent during the Second World War, created a spy figure, a little like him, a little like that of the double Serbian agent Duskan Popov.
The hero of these future novels has extraordinary qualities. Lively, intelligent, expert in the handling of weapons, the best element of intelligence service is also a man of taste. His education, his encyclopedic culture, his knowledge of good wines and especially his humor tinged with cynicism will make him irresistible. Especially with the fairer sex.
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Around this mythical character, the novelist invents a whole panoply of figures, which, like the exploits of the warriors of Homer 's Iliad, will spice up the missions that lead him to the four corners of the planet.
007 - the number 00 gives him any license to kill -, first has a team of allies
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