Eve Fleming ruled Ian through her absolute control of the family purse strings. She even made him break up with the woman he wanted to marry by threatening to cut off his allowance. Mummy herself ...

Ian Fleming was a friend of my father ... A beautiful man is viewed with the utmost suspicion by all intelligent women. A teenage girl may plausibly fall in love with an Alcibiades with shoulders ...

From the first arresting moment in Nicholas Shakespeare’s biography “Ian Fleming: The Complete Man ... so in death, a strong woman had played a defining role.” Eager to learn more ...