Goldfinger [antikvár]

A Note About The Author Ian Lancaster Fleming was born on the 28th of May 1908 in Canterbury, England. He was a newspaper journalist and a writer and he created one of the most famous characters in twentieth-century fiction - James Bond. Ian Fleming was educated at Eton - a famous school for boys. He then trained to be a soldier at Sandhurst Military Academy, but he left after a short time and went to Europe. He studied languages at Munich and Geneva universities. Fleming's first job was as a journalist in the Soviet Union. From 1929 to 1933, he worked in Moscow for the news agency, Reuters. While he was employed by this organization, he heard how Soviet spies sold government secrets to other countries. Fleming sent reports about these spies and their special investigations to Reuters in London. When he returned to London in 1933, he worked first as a banker and then as a broker - an agent who buys and sells goods for other people. During the Second World War (1939-1945), Fleming was an officer in the British Navy. He worked in the Department of Naval Intelligence, at the headquarters of the British Navy. He became the assistant to the highest official who employed spies for Britain. Ian Fleming learnt a lot about spying and how to collect secret information -intelligence. He travelled to many countries and organized secret operations^ against Britain's enemies. After the war, he worked for the Sunday Times newspaper. Fleming decided to become a writer during the war. He wrote about spies and dangerous gangs of criminals. In 1952, he completed his first novel. In the same year, he married Anne Rothermere. Fleming was then almost 44 years old.