Forged during the Second World War, the close and abiding friendship of Robert Harling and Ian Fleming, one of the twentieth century’s most iconic authors, would go on to define the lives and literature of both men. But beneath the pair’s charm, charisma and creativity was an altogether darker reality, one which Harling reveals in this memoir.
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Fiona MacCarthy OBE
1 Weekly Intelligence Report
2 Recall from Western Approaches
3 Travels and travails
4 Rendezvous with 30AU
5 Preludes to D-Day
6 A brush with D-Day
7 A Fleming clash
8 A first whisper of Bond
9 Probes and problems
10 Ramble to Kelmscott
11 Beginning of the end
12 Variant journeys
13 To the Elbe
14 A querying interlude
15 Trondheim finale
16 Fleming goes solo
17 Return to fresh starts
18 East Anglian reflections
19 Double lives
20 Goldeneye gambol
21 Fleming as publisher
22 Debut of Bond
23 Chez Fleming
24 Transatlantic headhunting
25 Octagons of friendship?
26 Metropolitan encounters
27 Legal and locale defeats
28 Flemings in Vogue
29 Farewells too soon 3
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