Goldeneye av Matthew Parker

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<p><b>THE TOP 10 <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> BESTSELLER </b><br><br><b>''Completely fascinating, authoritative and intriguing'' William Boyd</b><br><br><b>''The big bang of Bond books... Beautiful, brilliant'' Tony Parsons</b><br><b>_______________________________________________________________________<br></b><br><b><i>Goldeneye</i>: the story of Ian Fleming in Jamaica and the creation of British national icon, James Bond.</b><br><br>From 1946 until the end of his life, Ian Fleming lived for two months of every year at Goldeneye - the house he built on a point of high land overlooking a small white sand beach on Jamaica''s north coast. All the James Bond novels and stories were written here. <br><br>Fleming adored the Jamaica he had discovered, at the time an imperial backwater that seemed unchanged from the glory days of the empire. Amid its stunning natural beauty, the austerity and decline of post-war Britain could be forgotten. For Fleming, Jamaica offered the perfect mixture of British o