Not P but Bond, James Bond

[Mark Kohut]

*The World Is Not Enough: A Biography of Ian Fleming**Oliver Buckton
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 392 pp., $34, June 2021)*

Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, died in August 1964. Yet the Bond
franchise continues to thrive, especially on the silver screen, with the
release of *No Time to Die* starring actor Daniel Craig as Bond earlier
this year. Those in the thrall of Bond lore will find Buckton’s *The World
Is Not Enough
<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538138588/The-World-Is-Not-Enough-A-Biography-of-Ian-Fleming>
*a
carefully researched, judicious, if slightly repetitive, biography of
compelling interest.

Buckton not only traces the arc of Fleming’s life from his failed attempt
to join the British foreign office to his highly successful career as a
novelist, but he also shows how Fleming’s personality, lifestyle, and
personal proclivities shaped the contours of the most famous fictional spy
of the last century. Free from much of the postmodernist talk that has
ruined studies of Fleming and his creation, this book will delight any
reader who remains a Bond aficionado.

*—Sumit Ganguly*

*Hi Jochen. *